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Morgan Read

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Jan 15, 2008, 6:13:19 PM1/15/08
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Hi Folks

Is there any way to configure for Unix mbox / movemail in T'bird 2 as
there was in 1.5?

If not, who do I send my emails to about the removal of this very useful
(for me) functionality?

Regards,
M.
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Ian

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Jan 16, 2008, 5:16:27 AM1/16/08
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Morgan Read wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> Is there any way to configure for Unix mbox / movemail in T'bird 2 as
> there was in 1.5?
>
> If not, who do I send my emails to about the removal of this very
> useful (for me) functionality?
>
> Regards, M.


Hi,

I'm running TB 2.0.0.9 and I can select:

Edit | Account settings...
"Add Account..."

and select "Unix Mailspool (Movemail)"

Ian

Redhat71

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Jan 16, 2008, 6:03:16 AM1/16/08
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Morgan Read wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> Is there any way to configure for Unix mbox / movemail in T'bird 2 as
> there was in 1.5?
>
> If not, who do I send my emails to about the removal of this very useful
> (for me) functionality?
>
> Regards,
> M.

it's still there in 2.x, if you don't see it then you are using a distro
version and ask your distro

Morgan Read

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Jan 20, 2008, 4:30:05 PM1/20/08
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Thanks guys for getting back to me - yes, a distro bug/feature...

Fix is to download "movemail.rdf" from the source (which means
downloading the source - 40 odd MBs! - and extracting) and place it in
/usr/lib/thunderbird-x.x.x/isp. If anyone knows what the link to the
cvs of that file would be it'd be a lot cleaner?!

Alex K.

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Jan 21, 2008, 4:35:58 AM1/21/08
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Morgan Read wrote:
> Redhat71 wrote:

<snip>

>> it's still there in 2.x, if you don't see it then you are using a distro
>> version and ask your distro
> Thanks guys for getting back to me - yes, a distro bug/feature...
>
> Fix is to download "movemail.rdf" from the source (which means
> downloading the source - 40 odd MBs! - and extracting) and place it in
> /usr/lib/thunderbird-x.x.x/isp. If anyone knows what the link to the
> cvs of that file would be it'd be a lot cleaner?!
>
> Regards,
> M.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mailnews/source/mailnews/base/ispdata/movemail.rdf

In the upper right corner of the page, you'll see a link for "Raw
output". Right-click and select "Save link as".

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Alex K.

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