[Dovecot] Unable To Send Mail

[Seth Mattinen]

Carlos Williams wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
>> Dovecot does not speak SMTP to other mail servers, unless you mean "send
>> mail" in a different sense than I'm used to.
>>
>> ~Seth
> 
> I mean that I can send (SMPT) via Telnet which Postfix does fine.
> However when I configure Thunderbird mail client to use the IMAP
> (Dovecot) settings and attempt to compose a new message, the user
> (recipient) never receives the message. I am thinking as well as users
> of the Postfix list that this issue is related to my Dovecot config
> file not being properly set up. I could be wrong...


Thunderbird is connecting via SMTP to your Postfix installation to send;
Dovecot only does the POP3/IMAP half.

~Seth