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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! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ------------------------ ---- Do you

Hi, I've installed dovecot-imapd under ubuntu. My account and root are the only email accounts on my computer. I transitioned from using GNUS with fetchmail, exim and movemail, to gnus with exim, fetchmail and imap, so I've kept the mbox format email instead of changing to maildir. This works okay, except my mbox file is giant. I expected dovecot to take the mail out of the mbox file and put it somewhere. But, I see there's a big mbox file (/var/mail/me) that ke...

Hi In our setup we have mail delivered to /var/spool/mail/<username>. Many users like thunderbird as their MUA and we typically have thunderbird set up to read mail using a movemail account with the local mail directory set to ~/mail so that the mail can be read easily by pine as well. So, when a user clicks the "Get Mail" button in Thunderbird, mail is moved from /var/spool/mail/<username> to ~/mail/Inbox. Although I can serve other folders from ~/mail my...

Hey linux-security-ers: I just compiled/installed Pine 4.02 for my RH 5.0 machine today (didn't see an RPM last time I checked ftp.redhat.com:/pub/contrib), and after I got it installed, it kept giving me errors about not being able to create a lockfile when dinking with my mailspool in /var/spool/mail. After doing some digging on DejaNews and the Pine website, I find a document who says the

Hello, I use Gentoo and I can't get R 2.0.1 to compile. I used the portage system, Gentoo's source package sytem, and after it uncompresses the source to R, it says that I don't have a fortran compiler. It told me to use f77 flag and re-emerge gcc, which I did with the f77 and fortran flags, but it still won't compile. Does anyone have any ideas? I suspect that gcc has changed