Reading mbox mail on Thunderbird (FC5)

[Gordon Charrick]

Jay Cliburn wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:19:20AM -0800, Gordon Charrick wrote:
>> I've set up Thunderbird with 2 different accounts. One is a pop account 
>> from my ISP, and the other is a regular mbox account for local email.
>>
>> The pop account works just fine. I get notified when new mail shows up. 
>> The problem is that I get no notification when I get local email. If I 
>> select the inbox for the local mail and click the "Get Mail" button, it 
>> shows up immediately. Under the server settings I have it set to check 
>> for new mail every 5 minutes but it doesn't seem to work. Anyone else 
>> see this problem and have a solution?
> 
> I believe it's a feature.  It has never worked for me, and several
> months ago even led me to submit to the temptress known as Evolution 
> for awhile, just so I could see my mbox traffic show up without
> having to click "get mail" (or whatever).
> 
> I'm now back with T'Bird.  Evo and I didn't get along very well.
> 
> Jay
> 

Well, I have a workaround. I run gkrellm and its mailcheck can watch the 
mbox file and play a sound when new mail comes in. It's not my ideal way 
of doing it, but it does work.