I don't think you can tell Thunderbird to read local mail spool.
- "Account Actions" gives you 4 choices (mail, chat, feed, newsgroup).
- "Mail Account" gives you 2 choices (imap, pop). I
How about cheating a bit? Symlink one of "Local Folders" to
/var/spool/mail/users. Not sure how Thunderbird will handle .msf file
which will be out of sync.
On 2023-12-22 14:44, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
I figure this is probably a solved problem, but it's one I've never
looked at. And I admit to doing no research yet: I thought pointers
from this group would be the place to start.
I find I have a lot of mail generated by cron and the like on several
local machines, and I'd like to A) centralize that mail on a local
server, and B) be able to view that with Thunderbird. Platform is
Debian. It's not my intention to handle my Gmail or anything like
that: this is meant exclusively for handling mail from local
computers. Which would also mean the ability to send mail isn't
important.
Currently if I want to look at local administrative mail, I have to
use the nasty `mail` command from the "bsd-mailx" package. (Yes, I
could install mutt - I don't like it much better. I'm well aware it's
much more powerful.) But do I remember to look at these emails? No.
If instead each host forwarded these mails to a single host, and I
pointed Thunderbird at that ... I'd have some hope of managing this
problem better.
"exim4" is usually (not always) installed on Debian systems. It
claims to be an MTA: my knowledge of mail is so bad I don't even know
if that means it just "pulls" or is also capable of forwarding local
mail to another machine? And what would be the recommended server
software?
Another possible solution would be to send the mail directly to a
folder on the host that has Thunderbird without using a server? With
the snag that the host in question isn't always on, and I wouldn't
want it to run mail server software. Is that possible?
Yes, I know this is probably bigger than I think. I'd still like to
start poking around and finding out about it. Suggestions welcomed,
thanks.
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