Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Jabka Atu <mashrom.head@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> I tried to search an option inside thunderbird (icedove) but didn't
> found one.
Thunderbird refers to this as a "movemail" account, which should be
one of the standard "new account" options. Unfortunately,
state-of-the-art biff technology seems to elude the TB team, and
they've determined that automatically finding new messages is a
problem beyond their abilities. I have a movemail account called
"cron", and to get new messages I have to select the inbox and try to
get new mail. My xterm's biff lets me know there's something to get.
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