Help with mail on new system
 

Can anyone point me in the right direction on getting my mail going?
I've installed fedora 13 on a new system. I managed to get the webserver going but sendmail or getting mail delivered is giving me fits.

I believe I've partially gotten sendmail working because I can send an email locally using sendmail -v userID@my-domain.com and it will end up in /var/spool/mail/userID. From maillog it look like the message was accepted for delivery.

But no matter what I do, I cannot get Evolution to read it.Nor can I download it with thunderbird on a PC.

I've also sent an email from out side the system (from a PC but with another host) but it never showed up at my-domain.com.

this is the output from some of my trouble shooting:
netstat -an
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:993 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:995 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN


sendmail (pid 7048) is running...

sm-client (pid 7058) is running...

dovecot (pid 7107) is running...


dovecot.conf - I eventually added more protocols to fix the problem.
protocols pop3 pop3s imap imaps

nslookup mail.my-domain.com – returns with the correct IP address and servers

nslookup -query=”MX” mail.my-domain.com –
Non-authoritative answer:
cannot be found but is found from zonedit.

I can ping mail.my-domain.com and see that I have a static address from covad.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I'm missing or doing wrong.
Thanks in advance.
Ray

Do you have troubles with the connection to the POP3 (IMAP2) server or you cannot see the messages after you successfully connected to the server with MUA (for example Thunderbird)?
If you can connect (login, open mailboxes), then the MTA does not put the received messages into the correct mailbox or you are accessing the wrong mailbox.
If you cannot even connect to your POP3, IMAP2 servers that will be a network issue. (port forwarding, firewall, IP configuration) That will require more information about the network configuration.

[solved]
In the dovecot.conf file for protocol I had the protocols: pop3s imaps
I changed that to pop3 and imap.

When I went back into thunderbird to download for a user, all the email uploaded.

I did do the following:
Make sure .promailrc had the correct formats - originally it did not
Went over the dovecot.conf several times - and tried different settings

One way to troubleshoot this is to tail -f /var/log/maillog. When I created a user and TB found the server settings, IMAP/starttls it gave the error below.
In the process of troubleshooting it, I fixed my problem with thunderbird.

Sep 4 14:57:52 sendmail[11009]: o84Ivq6e011009: h-xx-xxx-xx-xx.chcgilgm.static.covad.net [xx-xxx-xx-xx] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA