[Dovecot] Outside mails

Tolga mtozses at sabanciuniv.edu
Sun Jun 11 19:50:05 EEST 2006


Hi,

I can't think of what's wrong with my postfix configuration. I built 
main.cf using postconf -d > main.cf. Anyway, it's at 
http://www.kunduz.org/main.cf which I hope you'll take a look and tell 
me what's wrong. It works well with Thunderbird and mutt.

Regards,

Gunter Ohrner wrote:

>Am Samstag, 10. Juni 2006 09:38, schrieb Tolga:
>  
>
>>I recently found out that I was able to get system mails, but not mails
>>from the outside world. What setting do I have to fiddle with for this?
>>    
>>
>
>Usually your Transfer Agent (MTA, SMTP server) accepts mails from remote 
>machines and forwards these to the delivery agent (MDA; often procmail or 
>dovecot-lda, or a simple local MDA integrated into the MTA) which 
>actually puts the mail into the mailbox depending on local delivery 
>rules. Dovecot imapd / pop3d just offers mail which already ended up 
>there.
>
>So you'r problem is probably related to your MTA or MDA configuration and 
>not to dovecot.
>
>Greetings,
>
>  Gunter
>
>  
>


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