Carlos Williams wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dovecot does not speak SMTP to other mail servers, unless you mean "send >> mail" in a different sense than I'm used to. >> >> ~Seth > > I mean that I can send (SMPT) via Telnet which Postfix does fine. > However when I configure Thunderbird mail client to use the IMAP > (Dovecot) settings and attempt to compose a new message, the user > (recipient) never receives the message. I am thinking as well as users > of the Postfix list that this issue is related to my Dovecot config > file not being properly set up. I could be wrong...
Thunderbird is connecting via SMTP to your Postfix installation to send; Dovecot only does the POP3/IMAP half. ~Seth
