Kristopher Kane wrote:

What do you mean locally? Is your mailbox stored on the same system you use daily or do you mean it is on a server on your subnet?

The OP probably means reading a local maildir/mbox.

As far as I know it's not possible to read maildirs/mbox's using thunderbird. Kmail Kan do it though, it's part of the Kdepim pacKage.

Best regards,

Glenn

fred smith wrote:

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:10:57AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

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fred smith wrote:

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Hi!

I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader.

So far I don't see any way to configure it other than as a POP3 or IMAP mail reader, but I get my mail locally and would like to try using Tbird to read it. What am I overlooking?

Thanks in advance!

Just use mailx on a text console like Russ !

I actually use mutt. but sometimes when someone sends me an html email with a lot of graphics attached it's convenient to use a client that can display it all, directly. I've been using balsa, but it isn't being packaged for RHEL/Centos anymore, as far as I can figure.

I just built a new machine and installed 5.3, so I could use the same Balsa RPM I used on the previous machine (also centos 5.3), which was provided to me back when 5.0 came out by another kind reader of this list--whose name I no longer remember, but I figured I'd see if some other mail reader that is supported on the platform would work instead.

The nicest approach is to have an imap server that you can access from all potential clients. If you are stuck with a server that doesn't do imap you can set up fetchmail to pick it up and move it to a server that you control. This is particularly handy if you have a phone that does email or you have multiple machines where you might want to read or download attachments.

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM, fred smithfredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:10:57AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

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fred smith wrote:

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Hi!

I'm trying to figure out how to use Thunderbird as a local mail reader.

So far I don't see any way to configure it other than as a POP3 or IMAP mail reader, but I get my mail locally and would like to try using Tbird to read it. What am I overlooking?

Thanks in advance!

Just use mailx on a text console like Russ !

I actually use mutt. but sometimes when someone sends me an html email with a lot of graphics attached it's convenient to use a client that can display it all, directly. I've been using balsa, but it isn't being packaged for RHEL/Centos anymore, as far as I can figure.

I just built a new machine and installed 5.3, so I could use the same Balsa RPM I used on the previous machine (also centos 5.3), which was provided to me back when 5.0 came out by another kind reader of this list--whose name I no longer remember, but I figured I'd see if some other mail reader that is supported on the platform would work instead.

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If you liked Balsa, maybe you will like Sylpheed as well: rpm -ivh http://odiecolon.lastdot.org/el5/i386/sylpheed-2.7.1-1.i386.rpm