On Jan 4, 2013 7:27 PM, "martin svensson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, im all new to this but feel i want to have a dedicated server to handle my mails from Gmail and Hotmail > > Basically, i installed SMS, superb Mini Server (based on slackware), and with that default install i got: dovecot, postfix, fetchmail and sendmail. > > The postfix part seems to work according to a "telnet localhost 25", now i want to procede with dovecot, as i understand it, its the middle layer between (in my case) postfix and thunderbird. > > What i expect in the very end is a dedicated server who regulary checks and fetches mails, and lets me have all contacts info in the (already up and running) LDAP server. > > When i start thunderbird, i want it to go grab those mails from my local machine > > I am, ofcourse all over manpages, HOWTOs, guides and google, but would certainly appriciate further help and points in the right direction > > My apologises for any weird beginner mistakes in this post
You will need to configure fetchmail to collect mail from gmail and hotmail and use Dovecot to serve it to thunderbird unless you configured gmail and hotmail to send it your postfix install. Simon
