How to read local mail in Thunderbird?

[Craig White]

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?
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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