[SlugBug] Thunderbird & movemail

David Leadbeater slugbug at dgl.cx
Tue Oct 10 00:52:20 BST 2006


Chris J wrote:
[..]
> How the blazes is Thunderbird configured to read mail from a local spool
> file - normally the localtion of cron-job notifications etc. I've
> configured a UNIX movemail account, but I see no way to tell Thunderbird
> /where/ the spool file is located, as I do not use /var/spool/mail[1].

Thunderbird doesn't support local mail in the normal UNIX way. The
best suggestion I've seen is to share your mail via an IMAP server
on localhost!

David


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