[CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

Sun Aug 23 20:23:41 UTC 2009
Lucian @ lastdot.org <lucian at lastdot.org>

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM, fred
smith<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:10:57AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> fred smith wrote:
>> > 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