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Old 10-20-2008, 04:26 PM   #1
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Cool Postfix and ThunderBird ... .

hi to all .
i have postfix installed on my Fedora 8 system and its working fine .
now on my other Desktop and laptop i have thunderbird installed.
now i have created the email addresses. but i can not connect to the mail box .
it keep saying .
Alert. current command did not succeed, the mail server responded: Mailbox dose not exist ??

thanx for the help .
 
Old 10-20-2008, 04:54 PM   #2
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Try having a look in /var/log/maillog on the fedora/postfix machine, that should give you a clue.
 
Old 10-20-2008, 05:49 PM   #3
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Postfix is a mail transfer agent (MTA), not a mailbox server. Can you explain a bit more what you are trying to do?

I suspect you need a POP/IMAP server like dovecot
 
Old 10-20-2008, 11:12 PM   #4
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Postfix is a mail transfer agent (MTA), not a mailbox server. Can you explain a bit more what you are trying to do?

I suspect you need a POP/IMAP server like dovecot


thanx for the replay .
yes i have Cyrus running on my system "imap" and Postfix . which is running fine so far .

and i also configured my thunderbird to one of the accounts i have on my fedora system, therefore . i can connnect with no problems ..

the only problem iam finding is that my thuderbird account dose not see my folder structure. as a result is informs me that there is no folder with that name .

i beleive iam missing a step here but i cant point out ???
 
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I use dovecot I'm afraid, so can't really help you there.
 
Old 10-20-2008, 11:29 PM   #6
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I use dovecot I'm afraid, so can't really help you there.
ok if i want to install dovecot , should i remove cyrus ???
thanx
 
Old 10-20-2008, 11:32 PM   #7
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I know courier imap has a tool to create the folders structure.. did you just manually create folders on the server in your mailbox or was their a utility involved like maildirmake My example is for Courier imap. I have not used cyrus but it may have a similar tool
 
Old 10-20-2008, 11:40 PM   #8
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I know courier imap has a tool to create the folders structure.. did you just manually create folders on the server in your mailbox or was their a utility involved like maildirmake My example is for Courier imap. I have not used cyrus but it may have a similar tool
ohh ok . you see i dont mind reinstalling , if you could just direct me to the right way to get this working . as long its Fedora and Postfix together i dont really care if its cyrus or dovecot or any other application ..



thank you for your help .
 
Old 10-20-2008, 11:41 PM   #9
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ok if i want to install dovecot , should i remove cyrus ???
thanx
Why not get it working with cyrus?
 
Old 10-20-2008, 11:43 PM   #10
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Over posting there.

You could just install dovecot and stop the cyrus service (chkconfig cyrus off and service cyrus stop - check service name first)
 
Old 10-20-2008, 11:47 PM   #11
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You could just install dovecot and stop the cyrus service (chkconfig cyrus off and service cyrus stop - check service name first)
thats what i did . but still now my thunderbird dose not connect . it says connnection fails . any there is nothin usefull in the maillog.
??????????
 
Old 10-20-2008, 11:55 PM   #12
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thats what i did . but still now my thunderbird dose not connect . it says connnection fails . any there is nothin usefull in the maillog.
??????????
ok guys i got it . it was cyrus . and my setting in thunderbird.

thank you very much for your help guys .
i installed dovecot . and it worked fine .
Cheeers
 
Old 10-21-2008, 12:20 AM   #13
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ok guys i got it . it was cyrus . and my setting in thunderbird.

thank you very much for your help guys .
i installed dovecot . and it worked fine .
Cheeers
all i had to do is edit my main.cf and take dovecot with the default installation ... + there were some Sasl Auth.. :
 
  


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