Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:31:39 +0100 From: beni <beni.brinckman@scarlet.be> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird and local mail ? Message-ID: <42345CDB.5000608@scarlet.be> In-Reply-To: <42344F15.60100@makeworld.com> References: <42344CE2.6010709@spymac.com> <42344F15.60100@makeworld.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris wrote: | FreeBSDBeni wrote: | |> Hi, |> |> System: 5.3-REL-p5 |> |> I would like to get my local mail (from /var/mail/<user>) in my |> Thunderbird (v1.0 - 20050310) mailbox. |> |> I found |> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-December/027652.html |> which is talking about version 0.3... But I get the same message |> as described after having created a movemail mailbox : "unable to |> create <user>.lock file". I've tried to set up a movemail for |> the user and one for Root, but get the same message back. |> |> So, how do I get those local mails transferred into my mailbox ? |> |> | | How and why are you getting local mail? If your using TB for | pop/smtp (via ISP), and all you really want is to ensure you get | root's mail, goto /etc/mail and edit aliases to something like | this: As to the how and why part : someone has to read the daily/weekly output from /etc/periodic/, no ? Kmail and others handle it nicely, so why shoudn't Thunderbird do it ? (By the way, in Kmail all you have to do is create a "local mailbox", point the location to /var/mail/<user> and chose None as locking method). | root: youremail@yourisp.com I have : "root: beni" (and ran newaliases) which is me as the user. Why should I send those mails to my ISP and then be read back with TB, since they are already here ? Beni. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCNFza98oeEzEDrEcRArg3AKCQxgLjW5fmp66MXg9J7Hnmr4cZxgCdHwxs fJ0b2XZTU2clKX2J1oH7wq8= =HqSg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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