Re: [Hampshire] Local mail

Aha! Part 1 solved after much more googling.
If anyone is interested: simply choose a new account in Thunderbird and
then select "Unix Mailspool (Movemail)" and follow the steps. You may
get a message box about permissions and changing /var/mail to be
accessible to everyone, when trying to get mail. I took the other
approach and added myself to the mail group (sudo usermod -a -G mail
username) as I thought this was more secure (is it?).

Leo

Leo wrote:
> I've a couple of queries about local mail on Linux (the mail that things
> like cron jobs send) that I'm hoping someone can point me in the right
> direction on.
>
> The first is: is it possible for Thunderbird to read local mail as my
> googling so far indicates not. It would be very useful, as at the moment
> I have to remember to run mail, whereas I run Thunderbird out of habit.
>
> The second is: is it possible to get my server on my home network to
> send its local mail to my desktop. Again, so I don't have to remember to
> check it?
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>