Accessing Thunderbird email in terminal

[Jonathan Underwood]

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.