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