On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How should i set Thunderbird to work with local mail : > for instance Kmail know's how to access /var/mail/username and get > messages from there. > > I tried to search an option inside thunderbird (icedove) but didn't > found one.
Thunderbird refers to this as a "movemail" account, which should be one of the standard "new account" options. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art biff technology seems to elude the TB team, and they've determined that automatically finding new messages is a problem beyond their abilities. I have a movemail account called "cron", and to get new messages I have to select the inbox and try to get new mail. My xterm's biff lets me know there's something to get. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]