On 1/15/06, Neil Cherry <ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > How can I read my Thunderbird mail in the terminal? I am starting to > > access my home machine via SSH at the university and this would be > > very useful. > > > > I have been familiarizing myself with mutt, but do not know how to get > > it to use Thunderbirds files. They are in mbox format in my > > thunderbird profile. I want both programs to be able to access them. > > > > Also, would it be neccassary/recommended to shut down thunderbird > > before reading the mail with mutt? If so, how could I do this? Tbird > > is started in KDE, so it does not show up in jobs in a terminal. > > Here's what I do, I copy the appropriate Thunderbird mail file > the my $HOME directory and them use mutt -f mailbox_name. This > is a pain but if you don't do this the original mail box gets > messed up. I hope someone has a better solution. > > -- > Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site > http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog > http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ Backup site I could use this solution if I had a script update this automatically- I would be on a remote machine and it wouldn't be too easy from there. Can a bash script do this? I'm not about to go out and learn bash at the moment (I am _way_ too bogged down with university work) but if I know that it _can_ be done I might bother someone by asking a favor. Or, can I set up a web based email program that can read the mbox? I do have apache installed, and if I'm already accessing the machine form the 'net, then I would most likely have a browser of some sort on the machine- at least lynx. I do know a little php but so far as I know (and I'm about to google on this subject further) php cannot access mbox mail. Though I could probably parse the mbox files if I could work out the permissions. Any ideas on the subject are most welcomed. If anybody has a bash (or C for that matter) script that would copy the mbox files, I'd love to see it (or parts of it- I'm not asking anybody to do my homework for me). Thank, all. Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/how_much_memory_will_i_need_for_my_digital_camera.html 234
