Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-24 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
fred smith wrote: Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader. So far I don't see any way to configure it other than as a POP3 or IMAP mail reader, but I get my mail locally and would like to try using Tbird to read it. What am I overlooking? Thanks in

Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-24 Thread Alexander Georgiev
2009/8/23 fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us: Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader. So far I don't see any way to configure it other than as a POP3 or IMAP mail reader, but I get my mail locally and would like to try using Tbird to read it. What

Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-24 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
--- On Sun, 8/23/09, Lucian @ lastdot.org luc...@lastdot.org wrote: If you liked Balsa, maybe you will like Sylpheed as well: rpm -ivh http://odiecolon.lastdot.org/el5/i386/sylpheed-2.7.1-1.i386.rpm Sylpheed might need a few other dependencies, which are however offered by the same

[CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-23 Thread fred smith
Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader. So far I don't see any way to configure it other than as a POP3 or IMAP mail reader, but I get my mail locally and would like to try using Tbird to read it. What am I overlooking? Thanks in advance! -- Fred

Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-23 Thread Kristopher Kane
What do you mean locally? Is your mailbox stored on the same system you use daily or do you mean it is on a server on your subnet? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-23 Thread RedShift
Kristopher Kane wrote: What do you mean locally? Is your mailbox stored on the same system you use daily or do you mean it is on a server on your subnet? The OP probably means reading a local maildir/mbox. As far as I know it's not possible to read maildirs/mbox's using thunderbird. Kmail

Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/23/2009 12:58 PM, fred smith wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader. Thunderbird will not look at maildir / Mail stores locally, you would need to install a server on your box like dovecot or cyrus-imapd in order to do that. -- Karanbir Singh :

Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-23 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:10:57AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: fred smith wrote: Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader. So far I don't see any way to configure it other than as a POP3 or IMAP mail reader, but I get my mail locally and would

Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-23 Thread Les Mikesell
fred smith wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:10:57AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: fred smith wrote: Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader. So far I don't see any way to configure it other than as a POP3 or IMAP mail reader, but I get my mail locally

Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-23 Thread Lucian @ lastdot.org
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM, fred smithfre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:10:57AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: fred smith wrote: Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader. So far I don't see any way to configure it other

Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

2009-08-23 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 01:25:16PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: fred smith wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:10:57AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: fred smith wrote: Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader. So far I don't see any way to configure it