Re: [webmin-l] Cannot connect to mail server

Andrey Repin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webmin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Greetings, Kimberly!

> I have wasted several hours on this; unable to get Thunderbird set up to 
> connect to the mail server.

> I can ping the mail server so the mail server is up and running.

Mail servers rarely using an ICMP protocol, so ping is not an indication.

> What are the default ports that Virtualmin uses for the Dovecot IMAP/POP
> server?  When Thunderbird does its test it comes back unable to connect.
> What is the standard configuration when setting up Virtualmin?

I doubt it is a question of ports (though you could always check logs), did you check firewall?
Did you try to connect to mail server locally?


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, June 16, 2017 01:42:15

Sorry for my terrible english...


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