From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 09:57:28 2003 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 0793716A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:57:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F6E243FE9 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:56:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from manalive@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 24881 invoked by uid 65534); 1 Dec 2003 17:56:44 -0000 Received: from lsanca1-ar5-4-60-056-131.lsanca1.dsl-verizon.net (EHLO 192.168.0.4) (4.60.56.131) by mail.gmx.net (mp014) with SMTP; 01 Dec 2003 18:56:44 +0100 X-Authenticated: #19378375 From: Jonas Manalive To: Joe Marcus Clarke Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:56:42 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200311302110.05987.manalive@gmx.net> <1070256898.98573.37.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1070256898.98573.37.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312010956.42394.manalive@gmx.net> cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mozila 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: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:57:28 -0000 > > Is it possible to use Mozilla Thunderbird email client to receive > > from your local /var/mail/username like kmail/evolution/sylpheed > > can? Or does one have to use procmail to deliver them into > > thunderbird's directory? > > I don't think Thunderbird-0.3 has support for movemail accounts, but > the next release should. I've looked at Mozilla 1.6a, and it does > have movemail support. That was the word I was looking for. After searching google, it seems that Thunderbird does have it, although not accessible from gui setup. Here's the website (with warnings!): http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/ movemail/ Instructions: ------------------------ Since there is no UI to set up a new movemail account, you have to either: 1) set it up internal movemail in 4.x and migrate that profile to mozilla or 2a) in mozilla create a pop account 2b) exit, edit prefs.js and change the server type from "pop3" to "movemail. Example, change user_pref("mail.server.server6.type", "pop3"); to user_pref("mail.server.server6.type", "movemail"); 2c) start back up. ---------------------------------- I changed and loaded up my thunderbird again. Unfortunately another error popped up: ----------------------------------- Unable to create lock file /var/mail/navigator.lock. For movemail to work, it is necessary to create lock files in the mail spool directory. On many systems, this is best accomplished by making the spool directory be mode 01777. ----------------------------------- Now I am searching for more information on this to try on my freebsd/ postfix setup. If anyone knows what this means and what I need to do, please do let me know. Best regards, Jonas