On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 12:21 +0100, Dominique Couot wrote: > Sorry to bug everyone, but I am stuck with what is probably a simple > newbie error. > I've been playing with Ubuntu server 10.04. Got it working internally > (samba, cups,...), even got the apache and web sites setup correctly. > My next step was to setup a mail server. > So I followed a very nicely done howto to get postfix + cyrus working. > I also installed roundcube for webmail access. > So far so good. I got incoming mail, outgoing mail, well everything you > expect from a mail server. That is... with roundcube. > When trying to connect though a Thunderbird 3, no luck. > I know the mail server works... it works with the webmail part - at the > office and outside of the office. It also works with TB3 when using the > internal IP address of the server on the LAN. But no way to get it > working with a domain name. ?? I'm not certain what the question is. Does the roundcube instance use the DNS name or the IP address of the IMAP server. Does "host your-server-name" return the IP of the server? > So I figure the problem was with the connection to the server and the > resolution of the server name etc... (/etc/hosts, hostmane, or whatever > over config file and anything in between the server and the domain provider) > Can somehow help me to solve that part ? I'd guess it is a DNS issue [although, in my experience, TB3 is a really buggy app - so who knows]. If you are on LINUX try it with Evolution [a good IMAP client] - does it work from there? -- openSUSE w/GNOME <http://www.opensuse.org/en/> Linux for human beings who need to get work done. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
