I've tried this and failed I found a really good article on using postfix with dovecot, so went that route and all is bow well.
Thanks for the help. John On 11 Mar 2010, at 17:21, Dennis Guhl wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 04:40:27PM +0000, John Moorhouse wrote: > > [..] > >> My only problem is that I have also configured send mail as best as I know >> to listen on port 25 as an SMPT client but any emails sent to it to one of >> the email addresses are saved by sendmail to /var/spool/mail/username and >> not picked up by dovecot > > You might want to tell sendmail how to deliver mail to dovecot. For > example, this can be done with dovecots LDA: > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail > > Bye > Dennis
