Thunderbird, sending mail with sendmail localy....

Hello, I am wondering if I can configure thunderbird to send and recieve
mail from localhost, I tried setting it up but I get “Cannot Connect to
server”, I have my firewall setup properly, and I setup sendmail.


japreja

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Sendmail alone is not sufficient. You need a service for thunderbird to
connect to and fetch mail from. Sendmail only does SMTP, for sending out
mail. Dovecot is a good choice for handling POP and IMAP.


ken_yap

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Thanks, I’ll read up on dovecot!


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