By elearn
I have installed mail server successfully on my vps according to https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-postfix-e-mail-server-with-dovecot. I create user joe with passwd “ps1” with root successfully. When i lgoin into my vps , joe@mydomain.com can sent and receive email via postfix and dovecot . There two passwords here for joe : one is for joe to login into vps ,one is for joe to enter the email . which one will i fill in the password in thunderbird?I tried tow of them ,all failures.
Why can’t connect my mail on my vps via thunderbird locally?
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