[gentoo-user] mozilla-thunderbird and local mail [maildir]

[gentoo-user] mozilla-thunderbird and local mail [maildir]

[Stuart Howard]

Hi folks

Does anyone know if Thunderbird can be configured to read /home/user/.maildir ?

I have a qmail setup that delivers directly to /home/user/.maildir and
is reliable etc. so I do not wish to change this.
Now mutt will read this fine which is what I use when away from home
but for home use I prefer a X app. I have used Evoultion and kmail
both of which are fine but have a few niggles which mean I am looking
for an alternative.
Thunderbird would be the next client but I can only get it to setup
for POP or IMAP neither of which I want to use. I just want it to read
a maildir.

Regards
    Stuart


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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-thunderbird and local mail [maildir]

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

Stuart Howard wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> Does anyone know if Thunderbird can be configured to read 
> /home/user/.maildir ?
Not to my knowledge, but you could setup an IMAP client on your box 
(wu-imapd, courier-imap, etc) that can [obviously] read this directory 
and then have Thunderbird make an IMAP connection to this service.  A 
decent IMAP server has an additional advantage of handling multiple 
access to the same files (eg. having two Thunderbird instances running 
at the same time).

Tom Veldhouse

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