From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 15:32:24 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 35CD516A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:32:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from xizor.is.scarlet.be (xizor.is.scarlet.be [193.74.71.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6EE43D55 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:32:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beni.brinckman@scarlet.be) Received: from (ip-213-49-86-58.dsl.scarlet.be [213.49.86.58]) by xizor.is.scarlet.be with ESMTP id j2DFWGC19132; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:32:17 +0100 Message-ID: <42345CDB.5000608@scarlet.be> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:31:39 +0100 From: beni User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050310) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <42344CE2.6010709@spymac.com> <42344F15.60100@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <42344F15.60100@makeworld.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Reply-To: freebsdbeni@spymac.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:32:24 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris wrote: | 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: 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/ and chose None as locking method). | root: youremail@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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCNFza98oeEzEDrEcRArg3AKCQxgLjW5fmp66MXg9J7Hnmr4cZxgCdHwxs fJ0b2XZTU2clKX2J1oH7wq8= =HqSg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----