Accessing Thunderbird email in terminal
Jonathan Underwood
j.underwood at open.ac.uk
Sun Jan 15 23:17:11 UTC 2006
Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> My solution is a bit of an overkill, but works fine. I have configured
> an imap server (using dovecot). Then I made symlinks on ~/mail to point
> to the files used by thunderbird in windows. Then all I have to do is
> use an imap compatible client to read those e-mails... And with this
> approach, you can install squirrelmail (a webmail program that I believe
> comes with FC4).
> The only downside of this approach is that when I go back to windows,
> Thunderbird has to recreate the indexes for all those folders, but at
> least that is a fast operation.
Well, presumably you could point thunderbird to the imap server rather
than ~/mail, then there'd be no need for the symlinks, nor the index
recreation.
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