How do you read sylpheed local mail?
Richard E Miles
r.godzilla at comcast.net
Fri Aug 6 22:05:15 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.
> --
> T o m M i t c h e l l
> Just say no to 7
Thanks Tom. I solved the problem by chnaging the spool direcory for /var/mail to
/var/spool/mail in the common preferences.
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Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
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