Re: [CGUYS] Will Postfix talk to Thunderbird?

2009-11-20 Thread Paul Cannon
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Creating_an_Account Shows another method on how to setup an account to use Movemail. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:27:12PM -0500, tjpa wrote: On Nov 19, 2009, at 3:35 PM, John DeCarlo wrote: Postfix doesn't do POP or IMAP, just SMTP and such

Re: [CGUYS] Will Postfix talk to Thunderbird?

2009-11-20 Thread tjpa
On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Paul Cannon wrote: Shows another method on how to setup an account to use Movemail. Thanks, but alas... Movemail support has been removed for OSX. The assumption appears to be that if you could configure a movemail account you can create a movemail.rdf file.

[CGUYS] Will Postfix talk to Thunderbird?

2009-11-19 Thread tjpa
I need a dumb demo of sending and receiving email on a Mac (Unix) that is not connected to a network. I have Postfix running fine. Can Thunderbird pick up mail from the var/spool/postfix folder or do I need to add something? Telnet localhost 110 does not connect. What am I missing?

Re: [CGUYS] Will Postfix talk to Thunderbird?

2009-11-19 Thread John DeCarlo
Postfix doesn't do POP or IMAP, just SMTP and such (AFAIK). http://www.postfix.org/addon.html shows several options for Postfix addons to do POP/IMAP. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:37 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: I need a dumb demo of sending and receiving email on a Mac (Unix) that is not

Re: [CGUYS] Will Postfix talk to Thunderbird?

2009-11-19 Thread tjpa
On Nov 19, 2009, at 3:35 PM, John DeCarlo wrote: Postfix doesn't do POP or IMAP, just SMTP and such (AFAIK). I figured it out. sudo postfix start sudo chmod 777 /var/mail (So that Thunderbird can write its lock file.) Configure Thunderbird for POP using usern...@localhost for the