Accessing Thunderbird email in terminal

[Dotan Cohen]

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.
>
> --
> Pedro Macedo
>

This actually looks like the best idea. Lots of my emails are in
Hebrew and I don't suppose that would work so well in a terminal! But
I can access an IMAP server with php and create a simple web-based
interface.

Also, I could run thunderbird on the wife's XP box and access my mail
from there when I am sitting there. Nice.

Thank you.

Dotan Cohen.
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