[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

[Doug Laidlaw]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:21:24 +1000
Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> 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.

Doug.