Re: [phpGroupWare-users] Re: Re: Problems with Email server imap

[Chris Weiss]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Ardi lems wrote:
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>
> Checked the setting box but i still cannot connect to my email server.
> I was wondering about the question with imap account.?
> Because i did not setup an account for imap since the manual i used didnt say 
> anything about it.
> Do i need to setup an imap account first or does phpgroupware create one for 
> me?.
> I am also running both email and phpgroupware on the same server so  there is 
> also no possibility that the connection is blokked by ports etc.
> Another thing that I was wandering about is that, is it better to use my 
> email servers name or my IPadress in the mail settings of  phpgroupware?.

phpgw is not a mail server, only a client.
a firewall can still block a "local" connection if a public IP is
used.  name or IP doesn't matter, but by name you won't have to
reconfigure if the IP ever changes.