I'm a newbie here but I have a question on how to make the connection between webmin and thunderbird via POP3. I have webmin set up and it is able to send and receive mail via webmin but when I enter the account details in thunderbird it cant find the settings for my mail account. I'm not exactly sure where I need to go in webmin to set it up to allow a connection from a client to allow the downloading of mail to the client. Would simply prefer to go to thunderbird to send and receive mail as opposed to logging into webmin then going to my mail. Any help would be appreciated as my searches online have been fruitless as far as results.

I read your post, and I'm a little confused as to what you are trying to do.

Generally, you do not need Webmin for mail, a regular mail account set up through your ISP.

In Thunderbird, you just set it up to send and receive to and from the pop and smtp servers. I looked in Webmin on my system, and you can turn your linux system into a mail server, if you want or need to. However, you would need direct access to the systems that might want to send and receive mail.

Does this help, or have I not understanding it is you need?

I was beginning to wonder if my post was going to get a response but I find the email notification a nice touch. To my problem with thunderbird and webmin. I use webmin to administer my standalone home server which is running Ubuntu 10.04. It is basically a matter of preference that has originated from a bad experience with gmail coupled with emails being sent and received that may contain information that I prefer not to have stuck on a third party server somewhere and my account get compromised and my correspondence is no longer secure. I choose to run a personal server to ease my mind and provide a level of security and control over my correspondence I would not be able to using a third party service. When I first installed my server and rebooted the system, updated it and installed webmin I began the process of configuring the server to work under my preferences and connect to those services I had previously set up and configured (router, dyndns, etc.) that would bring it online. I have successfully accomplished that, my server is up and running. However, I have not been able to ascertain a guide and lack the knowledge in setting up dovecot (which is the pop3 server). Just as the servers configuration files had to be provided with the appropriate settings to bring the server online (because it did not come with the configuration already set up) dovecot has to be set up with the appropriate settings that will enable a client to connect. I guess I should have worded my title a bit different, sorry about that. My question is "is there documentation that anyone may know of that goes into detail of how to set up and configure dovecot to allow a connection from a client such as thunderbird." Any help would be appreciated.

Well, that is a little clearer. Sorry I can not help, have never used Dovecot. I hope some one with the knowledge see this, and helps.