Re: local mailboxes in thunderbird

Mario Frasca wrote:

> the IMAP solution is only *partially* acceptable since thunderbird still
> does not see any of the mailboxes I generate in balsa or mutt. what I
> would really like is thunderbird to offer the same level of cooperation as
> balsa and mutt.
> 
> in practice?
> 
> the possibility to add a "unix account"... - read (but not automatically
> retrieve) mail from $MAIL - use $HOME/Mail to store messages in mailboxes
> - keep any kind of extra data (indexes?) out of the way.

Think you need to set TB to not delete mail from the mail box, so it won't
move the mail (may still make copies) and as TB uses it's own (NetScape) way
to store the mail, it will not allow you to share the mail with other tools,
but you can transfer it to another "netscape" product that handles mail like
mozilla.


> (((actually I would also like squirrelmail to be able to do the same, but
> that would be a bit more complex, as that does not run as $USER...)))

Think you need to do a bit hacking in the php code to make it to use ~/mail.


 //Aho