Sorry. Should have been more thorough in my details. I do have Courier-IMAP installed, and the courier-imapd and courier-pop3d services are started. If the pop3d service wasn't started, Outlook would be complaining that it can't connect to the server. Maybe I need to configure something more for pop3d? (like what directory to serve mail from?)
Thanks for the response. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Mark Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Postfix - so close, but not quite there.... At 11:23 AM 6/12/03, you wrote: >I've installed Postfix on my new Gentoo box, and have it configured for my >domain. If I use MUTT from the command line, I can send and receive email >outside my network. However, If I use my windows computer and MS Outlook, I >am only able to send mail - receive isn't working. Outlook isn't >complaining that it needs a username or server name, so it appears it is >connecting and authenticating. And I KNOW the mail is being received because >I can use MUTT to view it. So the problem is a communication or >authentication issue between Outlook and Postfix. > >I'm not experienced enough yet to know what parts of the config file(s) are >pertinent in this case, but I suspect the problem is either in main.cf, or >with my sasl configuration (Using Cyrus-sasl for authentication - no SSL >yet). The config has nothing to do with this. MTA don't handle IMAP or POP themselves. Even Sendmail doesn't do that itself. You need to run a POP3 or IMAP Daemon to handle the download of the email to Outlook. I am sure Gentoo comes with a basic pop3 daemon which probably runs out of xinetd. You will need to make sure that is running and that your firewall isn't blocking tcp and udp packets on port 110. For a better and more secure solution. You can look at Courier-IMAP which you can set to use a different password than the system password and has support for Maildirs. -- Mark Lane, CET mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hard Data Ltd. http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our Excellent 1U Systems! <--
