Cannot send email Postfix / Dovecot

[Michael Butash]

Being a network dude, I always say start at the network ports.  Can you
ping and telnet to the ports you expect to, and verify ports are open you
expect?  If you can connect to ports, it's verifiable not the network or
firewall.

Rest is auth to the application service or daemon (smtp/pop/imap) if you
can make a socket connection to tcp/25, 110, 143, etc.  If you open basic
imap/pop/smtp without encryption, you can interact and test with telnet
alone to send/receive.  Start there, once those work, move up to encrypted
sockets to build on once unencrypted works.

-mb


On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 5:12 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> I was able to get my home server to work for the most part.  I think I
> need to make a few more adjustments.
>
> I have Postfix and Dovecot configured and I can send email but not
> receive.  Nothing in the mail logs.
>
> I am trying to connect using Thunderbird.
>
> Config:
>
> IMAP port 993 / ssl/TLS / Normal Password / username :
> keith at keiththewebguy.com and password that is in
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot-users
>
> SMTP port 25 / STARTTLS / Normal Password / username :
> keith at keiththewebguy.com and password that is in
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot-users
>
> Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this?
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
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