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What error does Thunderbird give you?
Also, if you look in the mail log on the server, do you see any errors or other clues in there? The mail log is located in /var/log/mail.log or /var/log/maillog.
-Eric
Thank you for the reply
the log is here http://pastebin.com/eqW8t3wC
just shows alot of spam tho half the emails on there ihave no idea whos they are
and thunderbird and outlook just will not let me read the mails or even Find my mail server
Thanks
I'm not really seeing any errors in your output that would suggest a Postfix problem.
A lot of ISP's these days block port 25... it may be that your ISP is preventing you from connecting to the usual SMTP port. You may need to enable SMTPS and/or Submission, and connect on the alternate port.
My suggestion would be to go into /etc/postfix/master.cf, and uncomment the lines near the top that begin with "smtps" and "submission". Then, restart Posfix, and try connecting changing your SMTP port from 25 to either 465 or 587 in Outlook/Thunderbird.
-Eric
Hey still no luck mate
tho thunderbird locks on to 587 SMTP but incoming jsut keeps trying over and over again
Edit jsut seen on "Virtualmin Virtual Servers (GPL)" tab this
Available features Mail for domain, BIND DNS domain, Apache website, Webalizer reporting, Log file rotation, MySQL database, Webmin login Disabled features SSL website, PostgreSQL database, ProFTPd virtual FTP, Spam filtering, Virus filtering Disk quotas Not active on home directories filesystem. Mail server Sendmail
Sendmail?
Okay, so incoming email isn't working? What do you have Outlook/Thunderbird setup to use, IMAP or POP?
Also, you can check that IMAP is running by typing this command:
netstat -an | grep :143And you can verify that POP is running with this:
netstat -an | grep :110I'm not sure what to make of that "Sendmail" you're seeing above, though what you use to retrieve email is actually not related to Sendmail or Postfix, it's a daemon called Dovecot.
What distro are you using? And how did you install Virtualmin, did you use the install.sh script?
-Eric
I didnt install it mate someone did it for me Do you have msn if you have some time to chat i will send you some paypal when i next get some for helping as am realy stuck and dont want to make things worse than they are
Mike
edit them two commands do nothing in putty mate
Howdy,
If you don't see anything in Putty when you execute those commands, it may mean that Dovecot isn't running.
You can launch Dovecot by running this command:
/etc/init.d/dovecot startIf you're looking to pay someone to look into server issues, you can always post a comment in the "Jobs" forum -- there's a number of folks available to assist on things like that.
-Eric
-bash: /etc/init.d/dovecot: No such file or directory
and thanks for the info on the "jobs" bit
It sounds like you may be missing some of the dependencies for a fully functional web/email server... it's possible that whoever performed your install didn't use the install.sh script, but instead just installed the Virtualmin module.
If that's the case, you'd have to perform all configuration manually -- which definitely is the hard way :-)
If possible, you might consider starting over and performing an installation with the install.sh script, but you only want to do that if you don't have any live domains on your server.
-Eric
Hi i dont think i would be able to do it myself its not my strong point
and i do run about 11 websites of my server :X