Help configuring mozilla-mail

[Alex Dean]

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.

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