[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

[Juergen Harms]

hOn 06/25/2012 03:05 PM, James Kerr wrote:
>
> If indeed Anne is using POP or IMAP to collect "local" mail then I don't
> think she needs to configure a Unix Movemail account in thunderbird. I
> believe it is that account that is looking at /var/spool/mail/anne.
> Perhaps she has such an account on Mageia 2 but not in cauldron, which
> would explain why she does not see the error messages on cauldron.
>
> Jim

On 06/25/2012 05:20 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
 > To be honest I don't recall ever hearing of movemail before this, so I
 > don't know where it comes from.
 >

The answer from Jim is the essential thing - no need to mess around with 
/var/spool/mailo/anne - Thunderbird can do all this for you, you just 
need to create an additional Thunderbird account of type "Movemail". But 
it may appear somewhat  devious to do this, Thunderbird playing 
hide-and-seek with you:

Try to come to the "Account actions" tab in Thunderbird and, there, hit 
the "Add other accounts" button. That gives you a radio button, one of 
its choices beeing "Unix Mailspool (Movemail)". Once you are there, you 
should be on safe ground to create the special Thunderbird "Movemail" 
account (what Thunderbird calls an "account") that collects mail from 
the Unix /var/spool/mail/anne.

Where Thunderbird stores the local folders for this account is a totally 
independant issue, to set this up you proceed just as for ordinary 
thunderbird accounts.

I use such an account all the time to collect the messages created 
locally, for instance by msec - works great.

Juergen