dovecot, kmail & thunderbird

[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> Fedirico, you are the best!

Yeah!  Thanks, Federico, that's pretty thorough. 
>>
>> I use postfix. If you don't have it installed, install it.
>> If you have it installed and you are not aware of how it
>> is configured, do: "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow postfix" and
>> tell debconf to configure it for local delivery. That will do
>> If you don't have a fixed ip and a domain.
> 
> Done.
> 
This part doesn't seem to have worked.
...
> Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: SMTP connect to localhost failed

Do: telnet localhst smtp

I bet it says connection refused.

postfix, in Federico's instruction, is the SMTP part (I personally think
postfix is too much tool for the job, and use masqmail - in either case you
need either a "mail-transfer-agent" for fetchmail to deliver its mail to
your local port 25, or you need an MDA (procmail, maildrop) and have to
configure fetchmail to deliver mail to that program.
-- 
derek