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On 2017-03-13 11:52, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> I have access to local mail via "mutt" (which I don't use very often |
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> nowadays) so in order to access local "mbox" from Thunderbird I had to |
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> create an account (via Add Other Accounts) from Thunderbird settings. |
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> Is it the way to do it? |
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> Can I just create in my local folder /home/thelma/.thunderbird |
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> a link to /var/spool/mail ? |
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> Anyhow, when I added local account: thelma@localhost I could see all the |
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> local mail but when I deleted them (mostly cron job mails) they all came |
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> back. |
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> How these programs decide which one own a Lock.file? |
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Hello thelma, I'm afraid your post makes very little sense as written. |
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Let me guess what your real goal is: to access the same mailbox from |
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thunderbird and from mutt, at the same time. |
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When the mailbox is just a file or bunch of files in the local |
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filesystem, such a thing is always fraught with danger, even when the |
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mailbox is in a modern robust format such as maildir. And because you |
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mention /var/spool/mail, yours is probably in the ancient BSD format |
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which is the opposite of robust. So if you insist on proceeding this |
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way, I bet you a bottle of your favorite drink that you'll end up with a |
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corrupt mailbox and lost messages. |
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The safe way to do this is to run a local IMAP daemon, such as dovecot. |
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Then configure both clients as if to access a "remote server" mailbox, |
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except that the remote server is localhost. |
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