[plug] RE: Mail Server Questions

[Joong Cho]

> You can probably ignore the postfix setup for now. A default dovecot
> install will usually find the mail easily.
>
> Firstly check that Dovecot is listening on more than just loopback and
> is setup to serve out mail. (If you can use a mail client like
> Thunderbird on the server so you can test locally to start of with.)
> On my server I have the following lines that I had to change.

How do I check if Dovecot is listening on more than just my loopback and 
setup to serve out mail?

> Firstly set it up to server out mail. (add imaps, pop3s, to protocols.
> And also imap and pop3 if you also want non ssl encrypted connections)

> # Protocols we want to be serving:
> #  imap imaps pop3 pop3s
> protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s

> That should be all you need to change (well it was on my install).
> Then restart/start dovecot with /etc/init.d/dovecat restart.

Is this all I change, and do I comment everything else out?

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