dovecot, kmail & thunderbird

[Art Alexion]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 09:13, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote:


> >> I use postfix. If you don't have it installed, install it.
> >> If you have it installed and you are not aware of how it
> >> is configured, do: "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow postfix" and
> >> tell debconf to configure it for local delivery. That will do
> >> If you don't have a fixed ip and a domain.
> >
> > Done.
>
> This part doesn't seem to have worked.
> ...
>
> > Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: SMTP connect to localhost
> > failed
>
> Do: telnet localhst smtp
>
> I bet it says connection refused.

You bet correctly.

>
> postfix, in Federico's instruction, is the SMTP part (I personally think
> postfix is too much tool for the job, and use masqmail - in either case you
> need either a "mail-transfer-agent" for fetchmail to deliver its mail to
> your local port 25, or you need an MDA (procmail, maildrop) and have to
> configure fetchmail to deliver mail to that program.

I used postfix because it was installed by default.  I have procmail, which I 
have never set up, can I use that *instead* of postfix?

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