mozilla-mail & /var/spool/mail/$USER

[Paul Howarth]

Raghu Vadapalli wrote:
> Can I access my /var/spool/mail/$USER using mozilla-mail  &
> thunderbird. When I use the wizard all I see is pop/imap options. may
> be it's a too dumb question. But any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

One way of doing this would be to run dovecot as a POP and/or IMAP server on 
your machine. You could then access your mail using the POP/IMAP options of 
your mail client.

Paul.