How do you read sylpheed local mail?
Nifty Hat Mitch
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Aug 6 05:10:27 UTC 2004
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:43:15PM -0300, Andre Costa wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:09:29 -0700
> Richard E Miles <r.godzilla at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > I've been using sylpheed mail program and would like to read from my
> > local user mailbox. i.e. /var/spool/mail/rmiles. I set up the account
> > as instructed to use None (local). I used fetchmail to download my
> > mail from my isp. But I can't figure out how to read from my mailmox.
> > Can a syplheed guru tell me how the get mail for rmiles?
> > Thanks
>
> I use sylpheed too to read emails downloaded with fetchmail. I did
> exactly what you described to configure my installation, so it's weird
> you're not being able to read email. What exactly happens? Have you
> checked the"Receive" tab on the preferences dialog? (spool settings
> should match yours, and"Incorporate from spool" must be activated). Are
> you sure fetchmail is delivering messages locally to the right place
> (/var/spool/mail)? Can you list emails after they're downloaded
> with'mail' console app?
Play with a dummy local account...
In sylpheed check the tab configuration --> common preferences.
On that window look under the Receive tab and inspect the spool dir.
Click incorp from spool...
The default was not correct and when I changed it to /var/mail
I saw my localhost delivered incoming mail.
The clue for me was seen in this trace file.
strace -f -o/tmp/trace-sys sylpheed
I guess you can also use 'inc' to pull it in. Set it on the same
screen.
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