On 9/21/07, Jacques B. <jjrboucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9/21/07, Jacques B. <jjrboucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 9/20/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'd like to configure Thunderbird (and/or /root/.forward) so > > > that e-mail to root shows up in my INBOX, and a filter automatically > > > puts it into a Thunderbird folder (root). So far, I have not been > > > successful in this. I have Thunderbird pulling using POP from my > > > ISP. Anyone have advice? > > > > > > Mike Just installed Thunderbird and noticed that it has a Movemail mail account. Check out here http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Creating_an_Account#Creating_a_Movemail_Account for info on how to configure it (from there you follow a link to Netscape page on setting up movemail). Looks like it may do what you want within Thunderbird. If it's too much fussing, yum install evolution if you don't already have it and either use it for your mail client, or at minimum use it for your spool/mail client (that combined with the suggestions I noted earlier to get proper rights to the mailbox - I did chown root:myusername of /var/spool/mail/root, and then chmod 660 of that same file so that my group could read/write to it (although you may want to actually only chmod 640 to have read only as group. Jacques B.
