Thunderbird and local mail ?

[beni]

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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 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 ?

Beni.

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