-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 14:05, James Kerr wrote: > 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. > To be honest I don't recall ever hearing of movemail before this, so I don't know where it comes from.
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