[MlMt] Accessing local Unix mail

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Tue Nov 7 07:44:07 EST 2017


On 6 Nov 2017, at 13:34, David Ledger wrote:

> Is there a built-in way to access local on-host Unix emails from 
> ~/mbox or /var/mail/<user>? I can import them, but can this be done 
> automatically on a schedule? I know I can get cron to send its mail 
> using mate, but that would send it off site to be re-loaded back. That 
> would be fine, but I’d use a direct import if it were already 
> available.

No, I cannot think of anything in MailMate which would make this easier 
for you. Also note that MailMate really is IMAP only. It's not 
recommended to have any emails locally only. In other words, there is 
currently no good way around moving the emails to an IMAP server.

-- 
Benny


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