Re: [gentoo-user] How to setup internal email sending

[ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com>]

Il 31/08/24 19:55, Michael ha scritto:
> On Saturday, 31 August 2024 18:37:06 BST ralfconn wrote:
> 
>> I did not have success making the mail client (thunderbird in my case)
>> read from a local mailbox so I ended up configuring the MTA (nullmailer)
>> to forward the messages produced by my local daemons or shell scripts to
>> one of the external mail servers I already used for thunderbird.
> 
> Probably not relevant to the OP, but did you try to configure T'bird to look
> at a local folder where your mail was stored (you'll probably need T'bird's
> movemail for this):
> 
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1341209
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1718795
> 
> I've been able to access local mail storage with mutt and with Kmail - but
> have not tried T'bird.

I've finally had a chance to look at movemail in TB, seems it was 
removed approximately 7 years ago [1]. Somebody posted a possible 
workaround [2] but I'm not going that way. 2 years ago there was the 
intention to restore it but I see no activity on that bug.

Funny, [4] suggests going back to seamonkey for movemail support. I once 
was a happy seamonkey user then switched to FF/TB because SM seemed 
unmaintained, but from the website it looks like it's still alive and 
kicking.

raf

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625741
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625741#c35
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1802145
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625741#c81