From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 15:35:11 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 F079D16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:35:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7369343D64 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:35:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF20460D8; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:35:10 -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 30918-09; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:35:06 -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 299D060D4; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:35:04 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <42345DA9.3090209@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:35:05 -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> <42344F15.60100@makeworld.com> <42345CDB.5000608@scarlet.be> In-Reply-To: <42345CDB.5000608@scarlet.be> 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 15:35:12 -0000 beni wrote: > -----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 ? I dunno - as I said, it was off the top. Lots of way to do it. TB also allows the use of local afaik. I can't look now due to the fact that I'm doing a portupgrade. But as you said, if KMail can, TB ought to -- Best regards, Chris PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363