Although We are far from having a working email server but , at this point we still have configured enough to be able to test it the running mail service (postfix) with the '''Thunderbird''' application.This process is a little challenging, since Thunderbird tries really hard to prevent you from connecting to a server that doesn't work (and ours mostly doesn't work at this point).

The process is a little challenging because Thunderbird tries really hard to prevent you from connecting to a server that doesn't work (and ours mostly doesn't work at this point). 'Perform the following steps:''' # Set it up to connect to your '''vm2''' for SMTP and '''vm3''' for IMAP. Use no encryption, and normal password authentication for IMAP (we don't have an IMAP server running yet, but that's ok).