I've been trying to do this since I first started using debian about 2 years ago. One thing that you can do is to use a ~/.forward file to get your MTA (smail or exim) to move the mail to a directory which NS can use for mail (eg ~/.netscape/Mail) and direct netscape's mail directory to there. This will allow you to use netscape mail simply as a reader.
Alternatively, what I do is use netscape mail's POP3 client capabilities and its internal movemail to do everything, and don't use fetchmail at all. The main problem with this is that you don't get system mail notification anymore. If you do get a good answer to this problem, could you please let me know. Cheers Rich Jesse Evans wrote: > > Folks, > > I've got Netscape 4.5 installed on my slink system. How do I get > Netscape Mail to read from my local mail spool? I use a dial-up connection and > have fetchmail set to periodically grab mail from my ISP POP account. This > ends > up putting mail in my system's /var/spool/mail/<my_user_name> directory, from > which I can access it using mutt, Kmail, or whatever. Most of the mail client > programs I've experimented with have an option to be set up for this with no > problems (for instance, KMail has a "Use Local Mail" choice which works just > fine), but Netscape doesn't seem to capable of doing this. > > In Preferences>Mail & Newsgroups->Mail Servers I've selected Using > Movemail->Use Built-in Movemail. When I ask for a new mail check, I get an > error message complaining that Netscape cannot write to my mail directory. (It > says it needs to write lock files.) It suggests that I set the permission of > that directory to 01777 (it's currently -rw-rw----), but doing so (it > becomes -rw-rw-rwT) does not correct the problem. It also says that an > external > setgid/setuid Movemail program could be used in the event that all else fails > and refers me to the Release Notes for more info. > > Well, the Release Notes don't cover this and I don't know what might > qualify for an external movemail program. Has anyone out there in Debian-land > made this feature work? Thanks in advance for all your help. > > -- > 'til next we type... > HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
