Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail

["Tom Goulet" <tomgtrfd@gmail.com>]

On 3/22/08, Jabka Atu <mashrom.head@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,..
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> How should i set Thunderbird to work with local mail :
> for instance Kmail know's how to access /var/mail/username and get
> messages from there.

Hmm, it looks a little tricky, but
http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq says that you can
import Mbox files into Thunderbird.

It says that you do it by copying an Mbox file to the "Mail/Local
Folders" directory within your "profile directory".

By the way, /var/mail/username files are Mbox files.

So you might end up running something like this:

The shell command would end up looking something like this:
cp /var/mail/username ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/blergh.default/Mail/Local\ Folders

Then restart Thunderbird.

Tom