1734981 - Local mail can't be received in offline mode

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Description

[mYnDstrEAm]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

As described here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/663141/how-to-allow-thunderbird-to-receive-local-mail-from-apps-to-the-user-root-whil
I'd like to allow Thunderbird to receive local mails (from apps to the user/root@localhost) while in offline mode on Linux/Debian11/KDE. Offline means being disconnected from the Internet, it does not mean/require that you can't receive local mails.

Being able to receive local mails while being offline can be useful for many reasons which include that this can allow you to stop getting mails from online accounts while still getting notified about local events/reports of the machine and reducing one's attack surface / increasing security.

The default behaviour could stay as is but there could be an option for "Unix spoolmail" accounts that can be toggled for "receive local mails in offline mode".

Actual results:

In offline mode no local mails are received even though an Internet connection is not required for receiving & reading them.

Expected results:

Local mails should be received in offline mode or there should an option for the mail account that allows them to be received while being in Offline mode.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Sorry, Movemail support has been removed (bug 1625741)

Comment 2

[mYnDstrEAm]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #1)

Sorry, Movemail support has been removed (bug 1625741)

What do you mean with that? Please explain. I'd like to reopen the bug because it's not solved, if "Movemail" is required for one way to add this, it could be readded in some way OR there could be a way to add support for local mail in offline mode that doesn't depend on "Movemail".

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

You'll now have to access it over a normal pop3 means. (E.g. mailutils-pop3d to run locally and access the local mails through that.)