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Download emails to gmail from

Posted on April 3, 2014

I have installed postfix, dovecot on my ubuntu server.

Im trying to download email from username@mydomain.com to my gmail account.

I can send emails to gmail from the server, but when I put in my info inside my gmail account im getting these errors.

There was a problem connecting to mail.mydomain.com Server returned error: “Connection refused”

What can I try, check, search, ?? Thanks



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