From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 14:32:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4597716A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:32:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4D643D41 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:32:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CF560D8; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:32:57 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30954-02; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:32:53 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (laptop.makeworld.com [216.201.118.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8C660D4; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:32:52 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <42344F15.60100@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:32:53 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsdbeni@spymac.com References: <42344CE2.6010709@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <42344CE2.6010709@spymac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird and local mail ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:32:58 -0000 FreeBSDBeni wrote: > Hi, > > System: 5.3-REL-p5 > > I would like to get my local mail (from /var/mail/) 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 > .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: root: youremail@yourisp.com Then, type newaliases and viola, your root's mail is sent to you at your ISP's account, then TB will get that mail. This is only one way of doing it, and without knowing what and why, that's the 1st thing that came to mind. Chris -- Best regards, Chris PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363