Giulio Troccoli wrote: > I have tried both mail and Thunderbird. mail of course doesn't work > because it read from /var/spool/mail while postfix puts the email in > Maildir. However I would have thought that I could download the emails > with Thunderbird (on my laptop). I have a similar setup, but I use mbox instead of Maildir. I keep my inbox in /var/spool/mail and have my folders in ~/Mail. I can use Thunderbird (or any client) through dovecot and mail (or mutt etc) locally. Squirrelmail is also happy with this setup. //Morten