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Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

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On 06/01/2022 03:26, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500
> "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is
>> relatively easy to configure?
> 
> Claws-mail and mutt for two.
> 
> Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use
> dovecot to set up a local imap server.

This issue hit me this morning too. With a huge decades-long investment in TB.
Much websearching later, discovered that setting up dovecot as a local imap server is nowhere as complicated as it looks [1].

Just install dovecot-imapd + dependencies
It's configured by default to do exactly what's needed here (serve /var/mail<username>).

Then set up a new imap account on Thunderbird:

name and email address <username>@<hostname>

Server Type: IMAP Mail Server
Server Name: localhost, Port: 143
User Name: <username>
Connection security: None
Authentication method: Password, transmitted insecurely

It seems to be working now. Just have to wait to see if it fetches new messages as they arrive...

[1] https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2089364&sid=3a7ead4db70a4207632405a9aa06dc59#p2089364

-- 
John

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Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-01-05 14:40 +0100
  Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2022-01-05 15:20 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-01-05 15:50 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 18:00 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-01-05 19:40 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 21:50 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2022-01-05 21:50 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 22:20 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2022-01-06 08:40 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2022-01-06 16:30 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-01-06 21:10 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2022-01-06 16:30 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2022-02-07 03:20 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-01-06 02:30 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2022-01-06 09:30 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-06 15:00 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-05 19:50 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2022-01-06 11:50 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-06 15:00 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2022-01-08 08:00 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Bob Crochelt" <rfc56@fastmail.com> - 2022-01-08 15:40 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2022-01-06 09:50 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts didier.gaumet@gmail.com - 2022-01-06 10:20 +0100
  Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2022-01-05 20:30 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-05 21:10 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2022-01-05 21:20 +0100

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