Re: local mailboxes in thunderbird

Mario Frasca wrote:
> looking on the net trying to solve a cooperation problem between
> thunderbird and other mail programs, but not really finding the solution I
> was looking for.  the closest guess I could find was this one:
> 
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:06:25 +0200, Volkmar W. Pogatzki wrote:
>> Bryce Hardy wrote:
>>> Are there any plans (or is there any way) to let TB retrieve mail from a
>>> local mailbox directory (in my case, /var/mail/cygnia). I'm running SuSE
>>> 9.1 and YAST2 automatically sets up my local mail system. I can use any of
>>> the terminal programs like Pine and Mutt, or KMail, and even Evolution, but
>>> TB doesn't offer any such functionality.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Bryce
>> 
>> Set up a new account and select "movemail"[1].
>> It works perfectly, even with "multiple identities"[2]
> 
> I don't know if this solved the problem Bryce had, it does not solve my
> interpretation of the problem...  first of all, to have it work at all, I
> must chmod o+w /var/mail, which can't be a good thing.  
> 
> I also use Mutt and Balsa and both use the same ~/Mail directory, together
> with /var/mail/mario. they cooperate nicely and I can read the same mail
> from one client or the other without need for multiple copies of anything.
> 
> movemail removes or copies the content of /var/mail/mario into some
> mozilla directory.  this is not the same and it is not desirable to me. 
> I get at best two copies of each message...  no, it's not a solution.
> 
> any other hints?

It appears you're using IMAP.  If so, set the mail server to localhost 
port 143 and the correct username.

Pine and T-Bird will happily share the spool, but not simultaneously. 
Pine grumbles and opens "read only" if T-bird is running.

Rinaldi
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