Help configuring mozilla-mail

[Bart Garst]

Alex Dean wrote:
> Whew, I just went through something similar.  (Getting Exim4 to deliver 
> mail to local users.)  I did get it running, but I can't honestly 
> remember what all the options were that I needed to change.  I'll try to 
> get back in there and see what I can pull together.  I'm trying to get 
> Mailman working with exim4 anyway, so I'll probably be cursing it all 
> weekend.

My project is to have a script (run via cron) mail it's results to a 
local account. From there I want mozilla to automatically check that 
account ever so often.

> 
> I just kept running 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' and trying different 
> values.  I think you'll also need a POP server, like courier-pop, to get 
> the mail from Mozilla to exim.
> 

I only want to receive local mail with mozilla.

> I'm pretty sure the Mozilla 'local folders' mean 'local to Mozilla', not 
> 'local on this machine'.  

I did a `ln -s /var/spool/mail/bart Local` in
  "~/.mozilla/Bart/0bp4zdqv.slt/Mail/Local Folders" and could see the 
messages. I could delete them, or have mozilla automatically check for 
new messages though.

Bart

> You can set up mail accounts in Mozilla to put 
> their mail in these local folders rather than the account's inbox, but I 
> think that's about it.
> 
> alex
> 
> Bart Garst wrote:
> 
>> I use mozilla-mail for internet mail. I want to use it for local
>> mail as well.
>>
>> I can send a message to myself with:
>>  `mail -s test -t bart at localhost`
>> and it ends up in "/var/spool/mail/bart".
>>
>> When I start up `mutt`, I see the message so I know it's being
>> delivered. Now I just need to know how to get mozilla to see it.
>>
>> I'm trying to get it to check for new messages every few minutes so 
>> using the "Local Folders" won't work (as far as I can tell).
>>
>> My MTA is exim4 on debian sarge. I used `dpkg-reconfigure 
>> exim4-config` to configure it. During the config I chose local mail 
>> only & localhost for the system mail name.
>>
>> I've tried using 'localhost' as the server name and I get a 
>> "connection refused" error (iptables is not blocking it).
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?
>>
>> Setting up a mail server is not my ball of wax, so if I've missed 
>> something obvious (or done something stupid), please be gentle ;-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bart
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