Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:53:56AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > > > Well, it is almost what I want, but the check for new mail on start up and the > check for new mail every X minutes do not seem to work. I can only get mail if If all you want is the pop-up to grab your attention, maybe a noti

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread craig
On Friday, November 2, 2012 07:57, cr...@gtek.biz said: > >> >> I don't think you need to bother with POP or IMAP. It appears Icedove >> has an account type called "movemail" that you can point to >> /var/spool/mail/. >> >> Personally, I use good old /usr/bin/mail for this purpose. >> >> John

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 04:08:20PM +0800, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > I just add an account via Edit --> Account settings --> Add other > account --> Unix Mailspool (Movemail) > > But no mail shows up. > > > There was nothing in /var/mail which is link to /var/spool/mail That's perfectly logical.

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread craig
> > I don't think you need to bother with POP or IMAP. It appears Icedove > has an account type called "movemail" that you can point to > /var/spool/mail/. > > Personally, I use good old /usr/bin/mail for this purpose. > > John Bingo!, and thanks! I always have an xterm open, tailing the log

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 01/11/2012 22:36, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I guess I need a POP or IMAP server running, so my question is, which server should I install to acce

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread lina
On Friday 02,November,2012 11:18 AM, John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 04:36:13PM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck >> on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I >> guess

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-01 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 04:36:13PM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck > on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I > guess I need a POP or IMAP server running, so my question is, which server

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-01 Thread Joe
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:36:13 -0500 (CDT) cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install > logcheck on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates > using Icedove. I guess I need a POP or IMAP server running, so my > question is, which server