dovecot - Mar 2007 - can't receive mail from other hosts

i'm running RHEL v 5 and 1.0-1.2.rc15 of dovecot and 2.3.3-2 of postfix. 
users can send mail to outside hosts, but can not receive them.  i find no
errors in the maillog -- i used a page from the redhat docs to configure
postfix and dovecot so that they used the same mail directory... i
think...

any ideas on how to debug and/or fix this would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
steve

On 3/28/07, carpenter at strongs.org <carpenter at strongs.org>
wrote:
> i'm running RHEL v 5 and 1.0-1.2.rc15 of dovecot and 2.3.3-2 of
postfix.
> users can send mail to outside hosts, but can not receive them.  i find no
> errors in the maillog -- i used a page from the redhat docs to configure
> postfix and dovecot so that they used the same mail directory... i
> think...
>
> any ideas on how to debug and/or fix this would be greatly appreciated.
>
Does your maillog show postfix receiving mail and delivering it locally?

If no, you have some problem preventing you from receiving mail -
could be postfix config, firewall, DNS, ISP ... but not related to
dovecot.

If yes, then postfix log entries will show where it puts the local
mail.  Make sure dovecot is looking in the same place with "dovecot
-n"

-- 
Noel Jones