Where is root mail going?

[oldman]

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Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Jim Dever wrote:
>> Robin Laing wrote:
>>
>>> I don't use Evolution if I can help it.  I use Thunderbird.
>>>
>>> On my home system, my ISP won't allow any mail generated by the machines
>>> to be sent unless I really configure sendmail.  So I send the mail to
>>> the local machines to my user account "robin".  I then use Thunderbirds
>>> movemail feature to read the local /var/spool/mail/robin mailbox.  Now
>>> it is in Thunderbird under it's own settings.
>>>
>> Been lurking on this thread... what and where can I find Thunderbird's
>> movemail feature?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
> When you set up a new account, one of the options is a movemail
> account. On my system, it complains that it can not create the
> needed lock file...
> 
> Mikkel

It complained on my system too, but told me that the /var/spool and
var/spool/mail directories needed to be chmodded to 01777.  After that
it worked as advertised.

Scott
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