read mail from /var/mail/user with thunderbird

cccc · 09-08-2006, 04:19 PM

hi

howto read (import) mails from:

Code:

/var/mail/user

or

Code:

/var/spool/mail/user

with thunderbird ?

Code:

# su user
user@debian:/root$ mail
Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001.  Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/user": 240 messages 240 unread

I tried Movemail, but it doesn't work.
I have sarge stable.

Dead Parrot · 09-09-2006, 02:44 PM

Don't know about thunderbird but you could use mutt (a terminal program) to read your local mail.

cccc · 09-09-2006, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dead Parrot

Don't know about thunderbird but you could use mutt (a terminal program) to read your local mail.

but thunderbird normally can read root mails in /var/mail/root

cannot understand why cannot read from /var/mail/user ?

cccc · 09-11-2006, 07:49 AM

Code:

# sudo chmod 01777 /var/spool/mail/

solved this problem !

rupertwh · 09-11-2006, 07:53 AM

(woops) -- been sleeping... forget it...