[CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

Harald Wegscheider wegsch at unileoben.ac.at
Thu Mar 27 21:32:52 UTC 2008


Giulio Troccoli wrote:
> I have tried both mail and Thunderbird. mail of course doesn't work 
> because it read from /var/spool/mail while postfix puts the email in 
> Maildir. However I would have thought that I could download the emails 
> with Thunderbird (on my laptop).
>
> I hope you're not saying I have to install procmail too. I'd like to 
> keep the system as simple as possible: postfix, dovecot, squirrelmail 
> and majordomo (later) are enough.
>
> Giulio
>
Local maildelivery with postfix and dovecot normally should work out of 
the box. Just installing and starting the services should do it.
I have done this just 2 weeks ago as a demonstration in my linux class.
Do you have any maillogfile output ?

Harald



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