Hello, I followed this nice tutorial here http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/275 and installed Dovecot without any error. Then, I followed this tutorial here http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/200 and installed the SquirrelMail. I am at the stage where you run a configtest to see if everything checks out. Sadly, my configtest is failing like this: I had already opened the port 25 on my iptables firewall like this: # iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT So, I ran the following command to see if dovecot imap server was running... # netstat -tap and this is what i saw: Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 24173/dovecot While other server/programs on my server are running on a specific port (e.g. webserver on *:80), dovecot is running on *:imaps Is this correct? Is this what's causing my configtest to fail with SquirrelMail? First time playing with mail server + mail client. Please advice.
After some digging into the documentation file, i realised there was a setting called "listen" and "ssl_listen" on the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf config file, so I set it up like this ... listen *:25 ssl_listen *:143 had it saved and restarted the dovecot like this ... # /etc/init.d/dovecot stop # /etc/init.d/dovecot start When I ran the configtest again, this is what it shows now ... This is my netstat log ... # netstat -tap Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 26380/dovecot tcp 0 0 *:imap2 *:* LISTEN 26380/dovecot Do I need to install Postfix also? or dovecot alone is enough for all my mail server needs?
MTA = main transfer agent? So far, I only installed dovecot and SquirrelMail. I was under the impression dovecot had everything. So, how do you install Postfix and configure it to work with this setup i have so far? ________ buy vapor tower ________ Ford Mustang SSP specifications
Try this howto http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-mail-server-setup-with-postfix-dovecot-sasl-squirrel-mail.html
