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Chris wrote:
| FreeBSDBeni wrote: | |> Hi, |> |> System: 5.3-REL-p5 |> |> I would like to get my local mail (from /var/mail/<user>) in my |> Thunderbird (v1.0 - 20050310) mailbox. |> |> I found |> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-December/027652.html |> which is talking about version 0.3... But I get the same message |> as described after having created a movemail mailbox : "unable to |> create <user>.lock file". I've tried to set up a movemail for |> the user and one for Root, but get the same message back. |> |> So, how do I get those local mails transferred into my mailbox ? |> |> | | How and why are you getting local mail? If your using TB for | pop/smtp (via ISP), and all you really want is to ensure you get | root's mail, goto /etc/mail and edit aliases to something like | this:
As to the how and why part : someone has to read the daily/weekly output from /etc/periodic/, no ? Kmail and others handle it nicely, so why shoudn't Thunderbird do it ? (By the way, in Kmail all you have to do is create a "local mailbox", point the location to /var/mail/<user> and chose None as locking method).
| root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have : "root: beni" (and ran newaliases) which is me as the user. Why should I send those mails to my ISP and then be read back with TB, since they are already here ?
Beni.
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