Accessing Thunderbird email in terminal

[Oliver Leitner]

its not much of a mail solution, but for just viewing mails....

tail -f thunderbird-mailbox

On 1/15/06, Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br> wrote:
>
> Neil Cherry wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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.
>
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