Re: Wither smtpd (FC2)

From: Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX (caf_at_omen.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:24:06 -0700

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:28:27 -0500, Ivan Marsh wrote:
>> So how does one get dovecot to do its thing?
>
> Beyond installing, telling it which protocols to serve, and starting the
> daemon there isn't anything special you should have to do.
>
> Any chance your problem is with a firewall or something?
>
>> What's so great about dovecot that imap and pop3 had to go away?
>
> Don't know. I was kind of wondering that myself.

The Outlook message is that the IMAP server has closed the
connection, internal login failure. 

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