hi to all .
can anyone tell me how to configure Postfix with Thunderbird .

i have postfix running . i can get and send mail to my hotmail or gmail . no problems .
but for some reason i cant get thunderbird working with it.

i keep getting TIMEOUT ..

thanks guys ,

Postfix is used to send emails from Thunderbird, but you use something like Dovecot or Cyrus to retrieve and read emails from the server. To explain further, your server sends emails using Postfix which talks SMTP on port 25. When your server receives emails for you, Postfix sends these messages to Dovecot or Cyrus (or similar) to store until you retrieve them. Thunderbird will talk to your server on ports 113 for POP3 or 143 for IMAP (other ports for POP3S and IMAPS) to retrieve these stored messages - it doesn't talk to Postfix when retrieving/reading mail messages.

Do you have one of those (or a similar process) running - i.e. Dovecot or Cyrus?

And this is a duplicate post of http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-...-.-677889/

Reported as duplicate

sorry i got over this problem but thanx for the help . yes i was missing a imap server . so i downloaded cyrus do it so iam fine.

thank again

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.