OT: Use Thunderbird to pick up ROOT Mail?

[Les Mikesell]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> I'd like to configure Thunderbird (and/or /root/.forward) so
> that e-mail to root shows up in my INBOX, and a filter automatically
> puts it into a Thunderbird folder (root). So far, I have not been
> successful in this. I have Thunderbird pulling using POP from my
> ISP. Anyone have advice?

I'd forward root's email to a different local user (just so you don't 
need root's password all the time to pick it up), then add another IMAP 
account in your thunderbird setup.  Thunderbird can have multiple 
accounts, each with multiple folders that show up in the left navigation 
pane and with IMAP you can drag/drop among them, even on different 
servers.  The advantage of IMAP here is that you can access it from 
multiple clients and see the same mail store.  If you only have one 
machine that might not matter now, but that can change.   If you do have 
multiple machines, you might also want to use fetchmail or getmail to 
pull your ISP POP mail into a local mailbox where you can access it with 
IMAP.  Another advantage of IMAP is that it avoids any 
conversion/copying issues when changing email clients - any IMAP 
compatible client will see the same messages stored on the server even 
if you connect different ones at the same time.

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   Les Mikesell
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