Hello

First of all, please excuse me for my bad english. I installed thunderbird on my new debian sarge (kernel 2.6) system and everything seems to work perfectly but for the past two days I've been trying to install bbmail so I get notified when new mail arrives (my window manager is fluxbox).
as far as i know from $man bbmail it is designed to check my mail file in /var/spool/mail/stimpy (stimpy is my user name) for changes every few seconds, but on my system this directory does not exist. I can see the files /var/spool/mail and /var/mail but i don't know where my mail is being stored. and it seems that bbmail won't let me change that directory anyway. so I need my mail file to be in /var/spool/mail/stimpy. but how?

I remember having trouble with the configuration of exim during the installation process. I'm not sure if I need this program anyway because this computer is the only one I use. But if the solution to my problem was reconfiguring exim i would appreciate if someone could walk me through this?
thanks
stimpy

don't appologise about your english... it's as good as perfect! (people who ARE bad at English never appologise.. what a paradox!)

anyway... bbmail is an mbox (mbox = /var/spool/mail) checker... that's what it does. if you're using thunderbird to access mail via an imap server, then bbmail won't help you. you might want to look at somethign like gkrellm to check an imap account or a Maildir account, i.e. /home/user/Mail/

wow, I didn't know cpu fans can turn that fast . so I installed gkrellm (what a name!!) and set the local mailbox to /home/stimpy/.mozilla-thunderbird/y1dn2qh.default/Mail/Local Folders/Inbox and it works! unfortunately I can't use gkrellm to check my remote mailboxes because one of them is set to leave all messages on the server. this is my mail account at the university where we use lotus notes and sometimes they would send messages with lotus notes specific functions that thunderbird doesn't support..

anyway, I didn't know there is an better alternative to pop3, so the next thing I'll be looking for is a freemail provider with imap support!

this was a great help, thanks acid_kewpie.

i use a gkrellm plugin called "mailwatch" will can check remote accounts, pop3, imap etc.. and list each one seperately, rather than the standard gkrellm builtin checker.b