dovecot - Apr 2008 - new mail server

Hi i am a newbie in setting up a mail server.I am using CentOS and
complete installed OpenLDAP,pam,dovecot,sendmail & squirrelmail.
Now, how should i start to send & receive through the mail server?
How should i add a user and try to send & receive mail?
I am trying to use Thunderbird...but how should i start?
Please advice... thanks

If you are about to install dovecot http://wiki.dovecot.org/ is good 
place to start.

On 10.04.2008 10:07, Allen Sim wrote:
> Hi i am a newbie in setting up a mail server.I am using CentOS and
> complete installed OpenLDAP,pam,dovecot,sendmail & squirrelmail.
> Now, how should i start to send & receive through the mail server?
> How should i add a user and try to send & receive mail?
> I am trying to use Thunderbird...but how should i start?
> Please advice... thanks
>

Hi,
the new mail server that i had set up, i locate a username:ldapuser
and password:password to the SMTP AUTH and converted to base64 string.
Then in my Thunderbird incoming server & outgoing server username, i
put: ldapuser...
and it works ok .....

But then when i try to add another username and password in the SMTP
AUTH and when i test it by telneting to localhost port 25... it said
AUTHENTICATION FAIL!!

how should i add another user???
Please advice...

Thanks

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Allen Sim <allensim81 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi i am a newbie in setting up a mail server.I am using CentOS and
> complete installed OpenLDAP,pam,dovecot,sendmail & squirrelmail.
> Now, how should i start to send & receive through the mail server?
> How should i add a user and try to send & receive mail?
> I am trying to use Thunderbird...but how should i start?
> Please advice... thanks
>