dovecot, kmail & thunderbird

[Art Alexion]

federico wrote:

>On Thursday 09 March 2006 21:50, Art Alexion wrote: 
>Art Alexion escribió:
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>>Actually the connection to yahoo may be working because when I go to the web 
>>mail interface, the messages appear as "read".
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>Ok, I checked again and there is a "XX messages seen" part
>in the log
>Good omen :-D
>
>On the names:
>
>/etc/hosts
>resolves names to addresses.
>
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>>127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost rodney
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>remove rodney from 127.0.0.1 it must resolve to
>one address.
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Done

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>>192.168.0.3 rodney
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>fine
>
>/etc/mailname
>defines the name the mail server will use as source.
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>>rodney.alexion.com
>>
>>before I do the rest, is this the problem?
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>Maybe. does rodney.alexion.com 
>resolve to 192.168.0.3?
>
>Not here:
>f at morrigan:~$ nslookup alexion.com
>Server:         200.108.192.4
>Address:        200.108.192.4#53
>*** Can't find alexion.com: No answer
>f at morrigan:~$
>
>You can:
>
>a) add it after 
>
>192.168.0.3 rodney 
>in /etc/hosts
>
>Example: 192.168.0.3 rodney rodney.alexion.com alexion.com
>
>if alexion.com does not "really" exist, you can have it this
>way. Otherwise it will "hide" the real domain  by resolving to
>your local machine. Try putting cnn.com there and see. :-)
>  
>
Here is how it is set up.  200.105.192.4 is the POP/SMTP server for my
ISP that hosts alexion.com mail.  200.105.192.4 also should resolve to
verizonemail.net.  The local samba workgroup is named alexion.com, too,
hence the rodney.alexion.com.  There is currently no www.alexion.com,
which is why I didn't think this would cause problems.  The addresses
pop.alexion.com, smtp.alexion.com, imap.alexion.com and
webmail.alexion.com are accessible on the internet. 
(alexion.com/verizonemail.net provides very little server space and
other minimal features, so I have all mail forwarded to another
address.  That is, it is somewhat useless as an imap server.)

Anyway, what should I do to fix this?

>b) change /etc/mailname removing the domain part.
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>
OK.

>c) both. <-- I would do this. 
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Are you still recommending this in light of my explanation above?

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>+ Important : be sure to run as sudo -i when doing the
>name changing part. I have run into problems by messing
>the name, turning the present name unresolvable. 
>This makes sudo bark at you and you can't use it, so you can't
>restore the files so ...
>
>+ Prevention: Do make sure  old name is preserved
>in one address entry until you have everything working with 
>the new configuration.
>
>+ Solution: reboot in single user mode and put the original
>name in one address. reboot again.
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Now, with all this fixed, try to reconfigure postfix as per the
>previous mail. 
>
>Some notes:
>
>+ Stop fetchmail before you carry on.
>
>+ remove postfix and postfix configuration and reinstall:
>
>sudo apt-get --purge remove postfix
>sudo apt-get install postfix
>
>unless it wants to remove something you 
>think won't manage to install back easily.
>This could happen, as mail-transport-agent is required
>by many packages, so don't go all [yes] without reading :-) 
>If you don't remove it, the defaults in the debconf pages
>could be somewhat strange, but the answers should be easy
>and they are (cough cough) "documented"  in my
>previous post.
>
>Then 
>dpkg-reconfigure  -plow postfix
>so it asks more questions.
>
>+ When debconf asks for mail name it should be 
>rodney
>and all the destination addresses it selects should 
>be now familiar from the /etc/hosts and /etc/mailname
>edition works.
>
>+ Make sure that you run fetchmail with one account 
>at a time; it will be less painful.
>
>Good luck! Tell me how it goes.
>
>f
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