Accessing Thunderbird email in terminal

[Neil Cherry]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> How can I read my Thunderbird mail in the terminal? I am starting to
> access my home machine via SSH at the university and this would be
> very useful.
> 
> I have been familiarizing myself with mutt, but do not know how to get
> it to use Thunderbirds files. They are in mbox format in my
> thunderbird profile. I want both programs to be able to access them.
> 
> Also, would it be neccassary/recommended to shut down thunderbird
> before reading the mail with mutt? If so, how could I do this? Tbird
> is started in KDE, so it does not show up in jobs in a terminal.

Here's what I do, I copy the appropriate Thunderbird mail file
the my $HOME directory and them use mutt -f mailbox_name. This
is a pain but if you don't do this the original mail box gets
messed up. I hope someone has a better solution.

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