dovecot, kmail & thunderbird

[federico]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 21:50, Art Alexion wrote: 
Art Alexion escribió:

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

Ok, I checked again and there is a "XX messages seen" part
in the log
Good omen :-D

On the names:

/etc/hosts
resolves names to addresses.

> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost rodney
remove rodney from 127.0.0.1 it must resolve to
one address.

>192.168.0.3 rodney
fine

/etc/mailname
defines the name the mail server will use as source.
> rodney.alexion.com
>
> before I do the rest, is this the problem?

Maybe. does rodney.alexion.com 
resolve to 192.168.0.3?

Not here:
f at morrigan:~$ nslookup alexion.com
Server:         200.108.192.4
Address:        200.108.192.4#53
*** Can't find alexion.com: No answer
f at morrigan:~$

You can:

a) add it after 

192.168.0.3 rodney 
in /etc/hosts

Example: 192.168.0.3 rodney rodney.alexion.com alexion.com

if alexion.com does not "really" exist, you can have it this
way. Otherwise it will "hide" the real domain  by resolving to
your local machine. Try putting cnn.com there and see. :-)

b) change /etc/mailname removing the domain part.

c) both. <-- I would do this. 

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+ Important : be sure to run as sudo -i when doing the
name changing part. I have run into problems by messing
the name, turning the present name unresolvable. 
This makes sudo bark at you and you can't use it, so you can't
restore the files so ...

+ Prevention: Do make sure  old name is preserved
in one address entry until you have everything working with 
the new configuration.

+ Solution: reboot in single user mode and put the original
name in one address. reboot again.
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Now, with all this fixed, try to reconfigure postfix as per the
previous mail. 

Some notes:

+ Stop fetchmail before you carry on.

+ remove postfix and postfix configuration and reinstall:

sudo apt-get --purge remove postfix
sudo apt-get install postfix

unless it wants to remove something you 
think won't manage to install back easily.
This could happen, as mail-transport-agent is required
by many packages, so don't go all [yes] without reading :-) 
If you don't remove it, the defaults in the debconf pages
could be somewhat strange, but the answers should be easy
and they are (cough cough) "documented"  in my
previous post.

Then 
dpkg-reconfigure  -plow postfix
so it asks more questions.

+ When debconf asks for mail name it should be 
rodney
and all the destination addresses it selects should 
be now familiar from the /etc/hosts and /etc/mailname
edition works.

+ Make sure that you run fetchmail with one account 
at a time; it will be less painful.

Good luck! Tell me how it goes.

f
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