Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread lina
On Friday 02,November,2012 11:18 AM, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 04:36:13PM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I guess I need

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 01/11/2012 22:36, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I guess I need a POP or IMAP server running, so my question is, which server should I install to

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread craig
I don't think you need to bother with POP or IMAP. It appears Icedove has an account type called movemail that you can point to /var/spool/mail/user. Personally, I use good old /usr/bin/mail for this purpose. John Bingo!, and thanks! I always have an xterm open, tailing the log time,

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 04:08:20PM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, I just add an account via Edit -- Account settings -- Add other account -- Unix Mailspool (Movemail) But no mail shows up. There was nothing in /var/mail which is link to /var/spool/mail That's perfectly logical. If there's

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread craig
On Friday, November 2, 2012 07:57, cr...@gtek.biz said: I don't think you need to bother with POP or IMAP. It appears Icedove has an account type called movemail that you can point to /var/spool/mail/user. Personally, I use good old /usr/bin/mail for this purpose. John Well, it is

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:53:56AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Well, it is almost what I want, but the check for new mail on start up and the check for new mail every X minutes do not seem to work. I can only get mail if If all you want is the pop-up to grab your attention, maybe a

Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-01 Thread craig
This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I guess I need a POP or IMAP server running, so my question is, which server should I install to access the emails that will be put into a

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-01 Thread Joe
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:36:13 -0500 (CDT) cr...@gtek.biz wrote: This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I guess I need a POP or IMAP server running, so my question is, which server

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-01 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 04:36:13PM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I guess I need a POP or IMAP server running, so my question is, which server