Re: icedove / fetchmail

[lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> lina:
>>
>> It seems that my fetchmail saved in the
>>
>> :~/Maildir$ ls
>> cur      new      new.sbd  tmp.msf  Trash.msf        Unsent Messages.msf
>> cur.msf  new.msf  tmp      Trash    Unsent Messages
>
> This is the "Maildir" format. You probably have a ~/.procmailrc that
> creates these folders.

Strangely I don't have the .procmailrc

~$ more .pr
.printer-groups.xml  .profile

Frankly speaking I don't know how those come up there, the
/etc/fetchmailrc didn't show me where to save the fetched email (I am
quite confused about those things).

>
>> I wonder how to let the icedove read those fetched email. (not so sure
>> I am right or wrong here.)
>
> You may have luck googling for thunderbord+maildir, or you just convert
> your maildirs to mbox files which Icedove should be able to read. But
> generally, maildir is preferrable to mbox.

Thanks for both of you, I will try.
>
> J.
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