On 06/01/2022 03:26, Charles Curley wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is relatively easy to configure?Claws-mail and mutt for two. Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use dovecot to set up a local imap server.
This issue hit me this morning too. With a huge decades-long investment in TB. Much websearching later, discovered that setting up dovecot as a local imap server is nowhere as complicated as it looks [1]. Just install dovecot-imapd + dependencies It's configured by default to do exactly what's needed here (serve /var/mail<username>). Then set up a new imap account on Thunderbird: name and email address <username>@<hostname> Server Type: IMAP Mail Server Server Name: localhost, Port: 143 User Name: <username> Connection security: None Authentication method: Password, transmitted insecurely It seems to be working now. Just have to wait to see if it fetches new messages as they arrive... [1] https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2089364&sid=3a7ead4db70a4207632405a9aa06dc59#p2089364 -- John