By finid
Just set up an email system using Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL. That part seems ok. The only part I’m having problems with, is accessing email using a desktop email client or by webmail.
I can log into the server and send email from the command line. I can even see that emails are being received.
Obviously something’s not right, but I have no idea why. There’s nothing in the logs that tell me anything.
Any clues?
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<blockquote>Just set up an email system using Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL.</blockquote> <br>Did you follow a particular article on setting up an email server?
<blockquote>I can even see that emails are being received.</blockquote> <br>How can you see that they are being received?
<blockquote>Log in to the server and navigate to the email accounts folders</blockquote> <br>Do you mean <code>/var/spool/mail</code>? If so, it means that Postfix is not using Postgres, therefore there must be something wrong with your config.
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