Am 13.10.2012 02:45, schrieb Gedalya: > This has nothing to do with dovecot or with any server. > Thunderbird tries to guess settings such as your IMAP and SMTP server > addresses, ports, TLS, authentication scheme, etc. Sometimes none of the > guess attempts matches your settings. That's not an actual problem. Just > enter the settings manually. > > If your priority is to make Thunderbird quickly and automatically > configure your email accounts, read here > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration > > Note that this is Thunderbird-specific, Microsoft Outlook, Blackberry > etc. each have their own autoconfiguration schemes.
you may use http://www.automx.org/ for that > > > On 10/12/2012 01:09 PM, Justin Vore wrote: >> HELP! >> >> I have installed sendmail, dovecot, and squirrel mail. The squirrel >> mail portion of it works just fine, but I would like to have Mozilla >> Thunderbird as a client. Whenever I try and connect to the server it >> says "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email >> account." We do have an MX record in DNS pointing to our server. We >> are using Ubuntu 12.0.4.1, and have Dovecot 2.2.6 sendmail version >> 8.14.4-2ubuntu2 We are doing this for a class project and it is due by >> Tuesday 10/16/2012.. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Justin > -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer
