On 06/01/2022 03:26, Charles Curley wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500
"Paul M. Foster" <pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is
relatively easy to configure?
Claws-mail and mutt for two.
Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use
dovecot to set up a local imap server.
This issue hit me this morning too. With a huge decades-long investment in TB.
Much websearching later, discovered that setting up dovecot as a local imap
server is nowhere as complicated as it looks [1].
Just install dovecot-imapd + dependencies
It's configured by default to do exactly what's needed here (serve
/var/mail<username>).
Then set up a new imap account on Thunderbird:
name and email address <username>@<hostname>
Server Type: IMAP Mail Server
Server Name: localhost, Port: 143
User Name: <username>
Connection security: None
Authentication method: Password, transmitted insecurely
It seems to be working now. Just have to wait to see if it fetches new messages
as they arrive...
[1]
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2089364&sid=3a7ead4db70a4207632405a9aa06dc59#p2089364
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John