On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM, fred smith<fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:10:57AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> fred smith wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader. >> > >> > So far I don't see any way to configure it other than as a POP3 or IMAP >> > mail reader, >> > but I get my mail locally and would like to try using Tbird to read it. >> > What am I overlooking? >> > >> > Thanks in advance! >> > >> Just use mailx on a text console like Russ ! >> > > I actually use mutt. but sometimes when someone sends me an html email with a > lot of > graphics attached it's convenient to use a client that can display it all, > directly. > I've been using balsa, but it isn't being packaged for RHEL/Centos anymore, > as far > as I can figure. > > I just built a new machine and installed 5.3, so I could use the same Balsa > RPM I > used on the previous machine (also centos 5.3), which was provided to me back > when > 5.0 came out by another kind reader of this list--whose name I no longer > remember, > but I figured I'd see if some other mail reader that is supported on the > platform > would work instead. > > >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- > ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- > The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, > keeping watch on the wicked and the good. > ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) > ----------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
If you liked Balsa, maybe you will like Sylpheed as well: rpm -ivh http://odiecolon.lastdot.org/el5/i386/sylpheed-2.7.1-1.i386.rpm _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
