Re: Mozilla Mail

[craigw <craigw@lvcm.com>]

On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 12:28:29PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently using Mozilla for mail and news. I have the pop3 client 
> placed in the account settings and it all works fine, but what I want to 
> do is use fetchmail to gather my mail so as I get my pop3 mail, my 
> system mail and my mail generated from within the local network all in 
> one client
> 
> How do I configure Mozilla to act as a MUA only and not as a MTA/MUA 
> combined?
> 

1. Turn off mozilla's options to check mail on startup & periodically.
2. Configure fetchmail & whatever else to place the new mail in
mozilla's mail directory, or else just create a link there to ~/mbox or
/var/spool/mail or wherever you wish to have your mail.
3. Fire up mozilla & read your mail.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work. 
funny thing is, the extremely simple & logical steps I laid out will
work just fine with Netscape 4.x, but it seems that Netscape 6.x and
Mozilla can not see the mbox. 

So: open up Mozilla Mail, and create a new folder. We'll call it mbox.
Close Mozilla.
delete mbox, and replace it with a link called mbox, which points to the
real mailbox that you want to use. Or, leave mbox there, and tell
fetchmail to put new mail in mbox.


-- 
-CraigW



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