Thunderbird and local mail ?

[Chris]

beni wrote:

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> Chris wrote:
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> | FreeBSDBeni wrote:
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> |> 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
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> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-December/027652.html 
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> |>  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).
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> | root:   youremail at 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 ?

I dunno - as I said, it was off the top. Lots of way to do it. TB also 
allows the use of local afaik. I can't look now due to the fact that I'm 
doing a portupgrade.  But as you said, if KMail can, TB ought to

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Best regards,
Chris

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