On 25/06/2012 13:28, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:21:24 +1000
Doug Laidlaw <[email protected]> wrote:
But you use Postfix. I use getmail. Both deliver mail
to /var/spool/mail/user. If Anne is downloading her mail directly via
POP, /var/spool/mail/anne will never be used. Kmail is like that. In
both cases, the mail is placed in the appropriate place in $HOME.
I am running getmail as user, so I had to create /var/spool/mail/doug
manually. It is an mbox file, so can be created with "touch."
Postfix runs as root, and can create the spool if necessary.
It did occur to me that the config screens may say what the
directories are, but it looks as though $HOME/.thunderbird is the
place to look.
Doug.
Of course, if Anne _is_ using a local mail server, Thunderbird must
point to /var/spool/mail/anne. But she can receive mail on the
notebook, where that file doesn't exist, so I assume she is using
straight POP or IMAP.
If indeed Anne is using POP or IMAP to collect "local" mail then I don't
think she needs to configure a Unix Movemail account in thunderbird. I
believe it is that account that is looking at /var/spool/mail/anne.
Perhaps she has such an account on Mageia 2 but not in cauldron, which
would explain why she does not see the error messages on cauldron.
Jim
