cannot connect Mail client after IMAP server setup

[KCPoole]

Hi all

I have run through "The Perfect Setup - Debian Sarge (3.1)" and run into a few problems but I think I have got it right now :-)

Might be a bit off topic, but I still cannot find out and is not really covered anywhere that I can find, but ask here in case anyone can help.

What is the format of the Mail client logins ( Mozilla FireFox), in any of the Mailserver howtos here
For the one above, unix username works ( i think) but I cannot see the IMAP or POP maildir.
If I select to view unsigned directories then I can see all dirs in my home dir on the server but cannot see any mail, so must assume I can login OK

If i do the howto "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (+ SMTP-AUTH, Quota, SpamAssassin, ClamAV)", I can login as username@domain and see all mail, but this is overkill for my requirements.

Suggest that for any of the Howtos, that a section added for any particular client logins required.

Maybe I amm just a bit dumb at the moment :-) or maybe just cannot see straight from too much reading.

Thanks

KenP

ps. Also If i want to restart the howto over again from scratch, Should I just remove all packages and restart, or if I just run apt-get install will it go throught the configs again?

[falko]

Which POP3/IMAP daemon did you install? Do you use Maildir or mbox?


ps. Also If i want to restart the howto over again from scratch, Should I just remove all packages and restart, or if I just run apt-get install will it go throught the configs again?
If you run apt-get install again, it will tell you that you already have the newest package installed.
If you just want to reconfigure an already installed package, run
dpkg-reconfigure <package_name>, e.g. dpkg-reconfigure postfix

[KCPoole]

Which POP3/IMAP daemon did you install? Do you use Maildir or mbox?




I installed the courier IMAP suite of servers and I am trying to use IMAP with Maildirs.
If use "username" as the login I get no errors but cannot see any emails, but I can see files in my Homedir/Maildir/new on the server itself.
If I use "username@domain name" then I get errors in Posfix log and auth.log

I have seen many posts on the web as to client setup saying to use Maildir, Inbox, INBOX. etc under the advanced settings so I am rather confused!


ps Thanks for the reconfig tips as I will try again later to see if I missed something

[KCPoole]

I reran the install / setup ( including the apt-get statements) and the courier bit wanted to install more packages
courier-authdemon
courier-base
courier-ssl
liobfam0c102

I have no idea why they did not get installed first time around, but once completed the server started and I could login with my FFox client using "username" only

:-) all happy now
just need to install Webmail to get it all happening from outside my own network ( cannot get imap / pop from work)

Thanks Falko

is there anythng extra needed to get webmail working? other than installing it?

[falko]

is there anythng extra needed to get webmail working? other than installing it?
Normally not, but that depends on the webmail software. For example, Horde is a nightmare to set up, but if you install ISPConfig, then you can install the ISPConfig webmail package afterwards, and it will work out of the box. :)