Dovecot versus Postfix

[Jan Sneep]

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> Do you have the pop3 daemon installed?

Doing a sarch in the Synaptic Package Manager on "dovecot" I see three
installed packages "dovecot-common", "dovecot-imapd" and "dovecot-pop3d"
>From the Gnome desktop if I go to Places -> Search for Files and search for
both "imapd" and "pop3d" I get lots of files and a few folders. So I'm
assuming that both are installed.

 (It's a separate package called
> dovecot-pop3d) I recommend also installing dovecot-imapd but only
> because I prefer IMAP over POP3. It won't hurt you to have both. If
> the pop3 daemon is already installed I recommend you go back to
> whatever LAMP documentation you tried before and see if you can see
> where you went wrong before.

The original documents that I found decribed how to setup the severs, but
mine appear to be already setup and running. I'm assuming these are  the
default setup when one installs the Ubuntu LAMP server disk. So I'm looking
for help USING the already running servers.

>
> ---> Personally I find the dovecot.conf file to be VERY well
> commented. I think if you look at it carefully you will see your
> issue. <----

I have three versions that the Places -> Search for Files found for
"dovecot.conf" one in /var/lib/ucf/cache, /usr/share/dovecot and
/etc/dovecot, all of them have the same date & time stamp? Assuming it is
the one in /etc that I should be looking at?


> ALSO you never mentioned what you saw when you configured postfix
> using the command I mentioned. Did it take care of your issue with
> postfix?

Sorry, that was the;

dpkg-reconfigure postfix command.

As I entioned in another post to the list ...

"Very leary and reluctant to just run a configuration script! Remeber I just
clicked on the "Upgrade" button in the Update Manager a couple of weeks ago,
figuring it MUST be 100% safe and that cost me / lost me three days of work
getting the Samba server back up and working and had to re-install the
entire eGroupware application so we could access our business contacts files
again. Actually I had to completely erase, i.e. manually delete each and
every file and then install the entire thing again as the re-install in the
Package Manager didn't work! LUCKILY the MySQL didn't die or we would have
been totally <explitive>."

So, no I didn't run it ... anychance you have some documentation on what it
does? and hopefully an explaination about why one would answer the various
questions one way or the other?


>
> Remember that ALL the daemons, even in a LAMP server, will be
> installed with extremely conservative (even inactivated) settings by
> default so that someone won't get themselves into too much trouble if
> they install the package and don't configure it.  ***Note specifically
> that the protocols line in dovecot will be empty, so by default it
> WON'T do anything.***
>
> I think that's about all I can do to help. If you're still lost, I
> suggest starting again from scratch, and remember that GNU/linux is a
> bunch of pieces of software that have evolved organically, not a
> single consolidated thing like some commercial software products.

Thanks for your suggestions.