On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 13:59 -0600, Randall Donaldson wrote: > This is my first attempt at creating a mail server. I'm running postfix and > dovecot on Fedora 7. So far the process has been very > enlightening. I currently have the server able to send and receive messages > for a domain from the server machine itself. In > addition, I can SMTP from any client set up on the LAN by logging in. > However, I cannot retrieve messages from remote clients on > the LAN. Thunderbird reads "Connected to" {servername} across the bottom, > then times out. I tried to telnet to port 110 on the > server, and I no response, just hangs. Not sure where the problem lies. > Thanks for any assistance.
Stop Dovecot and try telnetting to port 110 again. Does it still hang? If so, change your firewall settings.
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