OT: Use Thunderbird to pick up ROOT Mail?

[Les Mikesell]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Jacques B. wrote:
>>
>> Just installed Thunderbird and noticed that it has a Movemail mail
>> account.  Check out here
>> http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Creating_an_Account#Creating_a_Movemail_Account 
>>
>> for info on how to configure it (from there you follow a link to
> 
> I don't see how to configure it. I don't have a mail server
> running on my machine.

Movemail uses file system access to the inbox so it doesn't need a pop 
or imap server.  If you will never want to use a different client or 
read the mail on a different machine it can work.

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   Les Mikesell
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