On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 08:15 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make Thunderbird read my local mail from /var/spool/mail? I > tried pointing the "Local Folders" folder to /var/spool/mail but it > didn't work. Any other ideas? ---- to do this, you need to use IMAP service (dovecot makes sense). Since it's mbox, you can always to a one time copy/cat process to a folder that Thunderbird can deal with... cp /var/spool/mail/user $HOME/.mozilla/default/salt_goes_here/Mail/Local \ Folders/ and the next time you launch Thunderbird, it should pick it up Craig
