Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

[Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com>]

On 1/5/22 12:33, John Conover wrote:
> paulf@quillandmouse.com writes:
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:58:09 -0500
> > Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500
> > > "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > Thanks for the info. Mozilla Foundation is seriously annoying me
> > > > lately.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is
> > > > relatively easy to configure?
> > > Sylpheed?
> > >
> > > Celejar
> > It's starting to look that way. Actually, I'm looking at claws-mail.
> Yea, and claws-mail is not compatible with Gmail's oauth2, which is
> now required by Google, (as of this month,) and Thunderbird is
> compatible, but no longer supports local mbox delivery for a LAN.
>
> Kind of a mess.
>
>      John

DISCLAIMER:

    * I am running on Devuan, then days, not Debian

    * I get my Thunderbird directly from Mozilla  (Currently 91.5.1)

I have local accounts set up so that I can receive e-mail sent by cron.  
I have had no difficulty with receiving these e-mails. Over the last two 
months, I have used 91.4.0, 91.4.1, 91.5.0, and now 91.5.1.  None have 
given me any problems with receiving e-mail sent by cron to my local 
account.  Under "Local Folders" I have an account with my name.  
Properties shows the location of this to be 'mailbox:///var/mail/marc'.  
No soft links required.  Am I misunderstanding the problem, here?

Marc