Hi, >> 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.. > > I have found Thunderbird's automatic setting detection mechanism to be > rather unreliable. > > Try entering the settings manually.
I am one of the automx developers. Have a look at http://www.automx.org. It is open source. I also finished setting up a test server, so you can try with mail address aut...@automx.org, pw: automx and see how it works. Kind regards -Christian Rößner --- Bachelor of Science Informatik Erlenwiese 14, 36304 Alsfeld T: +49 6631 78823400, F: +49 6631 78823409, M: +49 176 93118939 USt-IdNr.: DE225643613, http://www.roessner-network-solutions.com
