Ric,
> The 'Local Folders' confused me a bit. Thought it meant local mail as in
> that provided via the Mail User Agent. After searching through the last
> year of this newsgroup messages, I was able to determine that its
> function has nothing to do with receiving local mail.
>
> I cannot seem to find a way to get the local mail that is delivered
> every day (/var/spool/mail/$USER) to appear in moz 0.8.1 Mail/News.
>
> Is this function not implemented or am I just missing the obvious?
>
> If it's obvious, please point me to the right location for FAQ.
you want movemail.
Here's my lame excuse for a FAQ:
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/movemail/
-Seth