[webmin-l] Dovecot issue but I would like to try to fix it here

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Hello Jamie, Joe and users, I have a curious situation with Dovecot as administered under Webmin. I have a home machine with Thunderbird and a workplace machine with the same email client. The workplace machine has no issue with sending an email. But, when I get back home I can receive but I can't send.

And, I have a tail -f on my /var/log/dovecot/dovecot_debug.log and it shows my Blackberry connecting/disconnecting every 15 minutes to download new mail. If I reply to the mail on the Blackberry no problemo: the mail is sent??

If I connect to Dovecot as follows I get the message: * OK Dovecot Ready

telnet davidwbrown.name 143

* Workplace
OS: Windows XP
Thunderbird: 2.0.0.23
IMAP: Dovecot 1.2
Webmin: 1.490

* Home
OS: Windows XP
Thunderbird: 2.0.0.23
IMAP: Dovecot 1.2
Webmin: 1.490

Pop-up error condition in Thunderbird when new mail or reply mail is attempted on the home machine:

The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server davidwbrown.name failed.