Re: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

2018-07-18 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, John Rowan wrote: /var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail I tried both, neither works. I just wiped out the server, reinstalled from scratch this time I selected e-mail server while selecting packages after specifying GUI-s

Re: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

2018-07-18 Thread John Rowan
Having reinstalled CentOS 7 including e-mail server in initial software configuration it installed Postfix/Dovecot. I've been using Sendmail for 20 years and no experience with Postfix.  Looked in Webmin -> servers -> Postfix and specified Maildir, changed the 10-mail.conf to specify mail_lo

Re: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

2018-07-18 Thread John Rowan
/var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail I tried both, neither works. I just wiped out the server, reinstalled from scratch this time I selected e-mail server while selecting packages after specifying GUI-server on the CentOS install. I had previously installed Dovecot after the initial ser

Re: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

2018-07-14 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 13.07.2018 um 16:44 schrieb John Rowan: I've been struggling trying to get Thunderbird to read e-mail off a CentOS 7 server. Sendmail writes mail in /var/spool/mail I've configured dovecot to try to read from there using Thunderbird (POP3/SMTP). You didn't explicitly configure pop3 as a

Re: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

2018-07-14 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 13.07.2018 um 17:44 schrieb Aki Tuomi: Should your INBOX path be/var/spool/mail/%u then? /var/spool/mail is the same as /var/mail on CentOS 7 as /var/mail is a symlink. Alexander

Re: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

2018-07-13 Thread Aki Tuomi
Should your INBOX path be /var/spool/mail/%u then? ---Aki TuomiDovecot oy Original message From: John Rowan Date: 13/07/2018 17:44 (GMT+02:00) To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble I've been struggling trying to get Thunderbird to read e-mail off a Cent