dovecot, kmail & thunderbird

[Art Alexion]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 17:57, federico wrote:
> Doh! sent it from the wrong address and it bounced.
> Here it goes again.

I think I replied to your second message before this one.  Sorry if it makes 
no sense.


> On Wednesday 08 March 2006 23:56, Art Alexion wrote:
>
> Art Alexion escribió:

> > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 10:10, federico wrote:
> > > On Monday 06 March 2006 20:54, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > > Derek Broughton escribió:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Do sudo invoke-rc.d dovecot restart
> >
> > This didn't work so I did
> > sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
> > That worked.  I assume it does the same thing.
>
> I wonder why it did not work but it should be
> the same thing, yes.

So that is one thing not to worry about.  Don't care if it didn't work one way 
as long as it worked.


>
> > Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: SMTP connect to localhost
> > failed Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: SMTP transaction error
> > while fetching from pop.mail.yahoo.com
> > Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> > Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: Warning: server certificate
> > verification: unable to get local issuer certificate
> > Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: SSL connection failed.
> > Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
> > Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: sleeping at Wed 08 Mar 2006
> > 09:42:51 PM EST
>
> We seem to have two issues here:
> 1) Connection with localhost, verified as per Derek's suggestion.
> 2) Connection with pop.mail.yahoo.com
>
> > Note that I configured 3 accounts in fetchmailrc and artalexion at yahoo.com
> > is only one of them.
>
> How are them configured in thunderbird/kmail ?
> Do they use TLS or SSL ?

No, and cleartext authentication.

Actually the connection to yahoo may be working because when I go to the web 
mail interface, the messages appear as "read".


> For gmail go to:
>
> http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1673/
>
> and in the "Fetchmail" section it explain what to do
> to get and import the key. It is rather easy and
> a good read.
>
> It should be similar in other cases but I can
> not tell since I haven't had the chance to do this
> for other than gmail.


Will do for gmail.


> Now let's test postfix:
>
> check /etc/hosts
>
> it should have something along the lines:
>
> 127.0.0.1       localhost localhost.localdomain
> 192.168.1.1     machine-name

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost rodney
192.168.0.3 rodney

and some IPv6 stuff and the IP addresses of the other machines on the lan.

>
> The 127.0.0.1 line should be the same.
> The other address is your internal ip and your machines name.
> This name should be the same as
> /etc/mailname
>

rodney.alexion.com

before I do the rest, is this the problem?


> Then try
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow postfix
>
> again and this time tell it to be an
> "internet site"
> ( translated from spanish, pay attention, may vary ;-) )
>
> Tell it :
>
> + Mail to root: your local username
>
> + Mail name: same as /etc/mailname
>
> + Other destinations: should be:
> 	 machine-name, localhost.localdomain, localhost
> 	(machine-name as in /etc/mailname)
>
> + Force synchronous updates on mail queue?: yes
>
> + Local networks: 127.0.0.0/8
>
> + procmail: yes ( hehe postfix uses procmail! )
>
> + mailbox limit: default is ok.
>
> + the rest as default
>
> Now postfix should be ok. I just did a purge and install
> to check this and it worked fine. I also have this setup
> in my machine and in one client who is a small
> handcrafts association.
>
> A mail sent internally yields:
> ---------------------------------------
> To: f <f at auda-pza>
> Subject: test
> From: f <f at auda-pza>
>
> ss
> ---------------------------------------
> ( auda-pza being machine-name )
>
> Next I would advise you to test one account at a time
> in the fetchmailrc file.
>
> Monitor this two files:
> tail -f /var/log/mail.log  <-- postfix logs here.
> tail -f /var/log/syslog
>
> and then restart fetchmail.
>
> In the MUA the server type is IMAP and
> use your machine name as server name.
> You can also try localhost or your ip.
>
> Wow, aren't computers fun? (:ironic-grin:)
>
> I hope that does it.
> You could be able to use only procmail, but I
> can not help there. In fact, if someone can
> point to a good resource, I would be grateful.
> ( the reading never ends! )
>
> Ok, have fun. Me gotta code a bit more.
>
> f
>
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