How to read local mail in Thunderbird?

[Gustavo Seabra]

Randall A. Jones wrote:

>
> 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?
>>
>
> I think what you want is "Movemail".
> Try Edit->Account Settings->Add Account  to get the new account window.
> Choose "Movemail" from the list and continue the configuration with 
> your name, account, other settings.
> When you "Get Mail" it should look in /var/spool/mail on your system 
> (localhost) for your mail file.
>
> Randall

Yep, that did it, thanks.

However, to work, I had to change the mode of /spool/mail to 01777, as 
requested by TB. Is that safe?

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