On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 13:11:09 -0400, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello,.. > > How should i set Thunderbird to work with local mail : > for instance Kmail know's how to access /var/mail/username and get > messages from there. > > I tried to search an option inside thunderbird (icedove) but didn't > found one.
You have to set up a movemail account if you want to access folders in /var/mail directly: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Creating_an_Account#Creating_a_Movemail_Account http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/movemail.html It seems that the configuration dialog for this type of account is broken in some versions of icedove: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432119 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447002 It may be possible to work around the bug by creating an additional pop3 account and converting it to a movemail account afterwards: http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/movemail/ It should not be necessary to edit prefs.js directly, the config editor gives you access to the mail.server.serverX.type settings as well. (Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Config Editor...) You might furthermore want to use an external movemail command, typically the one from the "mailutils" package, to have the option to preserve the original messages in /var/mail. The relevant config settings are mail.use_builtin_movemail and mail.movemail_program. (Disclaimer: I never actually tried the above workaround. Movemail accounts worked fine for me with Mozilla, but I never used thunderbird or icedove long enough to know if that feature has been preserved properly. It might be safer to run a local imap server for icedove to access.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
