Open-Xchange - Email client connection

Question

Just installed Open-Xchange community on debian squeeze, I can access my email by going to http://ox.mysite.co.uk/ and all is well however how do I connect my email client thunderbird to get mail, I found the thunderbird extender and that hooks up calendar and contacts but no mail, the only way I think is to hook up directly to my mail server and grab mail from there but I was under the impression that open exchange would deal with the fetching of mail from the mail server.

I have tried connecting to the open-Xchange server via IMAP in thunderbird and I get connection refused and then i tried to telnet to the open-Xchange server via telnet on port 143 and I get connection refused, Then I tried telneting localhost 143 on the ox server itself and same thing connection refused.

Any help or advise would be greatly received.

Answer 1

Open-Xchange provides email access via POP3 or IMAP (like most mail servers). Just set up an IMAP (or POP3) mailbox in Thunderbird.

Thunderbird should have prompted you to set up an account when you installed it. Otherwise, just create one using the wizard. See e.g. http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/automatic-account-configuration?s=create+account&as=s

Edit:

If you get "Connection refused" when contacting the server, the IMAP service is probably not running, or blocked by a firewall. Talk to your network administrator and/or the Open-Xchange server administrator.