56671 - support external movemail handlers

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 384774

(MailNews Core :: Movemail, defect, P3)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

right now we only support internal movemail.

Comment 1

[Adam D. Moss]

Shouldn't be very hard -- how important is this?

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

it's not important until people start demanding it.

I wouldn't waste your time until we start getting duplicate of this bug, or
votes for it.

we probably need a new bug for the case where a person used external movemail in
4.x, and then mail stops working since they are are forced to use internal
movemail in 6.0.  in this case, we should alert and let the user know what is
going on.

Comment 3

[Eray Ozkural]

Seth:

that becomes me. I use a movemail binary from emacs20 with 4.x and it worked
surprisingly well. When I converted my profile with a 0.9+ build the movemail
stuff was converted as a "Unix Movemail" account, but it does not seem to work
and the "advanced" properties for the server settings show IMAP settings instead
of movemail.

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

component -> movemail

Comment 5

[Daniel Tweedt]

The absence of this feature is the one thing keeping me from migrating
completely from Netscape 4.x to Mozilla. I suspect that this situation may be
true for many unix users. For example, where I used to work, quite a few SGI
workstations were set up to use external movemail with Netscape.

Comment 6

[Pablo Varela]

I think Redhat Linux needs an external movemail application (it used to need it
in NS 4.7), as its /var/spool/mail/ directory has the following permisions:

drwxrwxr-x    2 root     mail         1024 mar  5 23:42 .

Comment 7

[Adam D. Moss]

helpwanted and ->NEW

Comment 8

[Alex Suess]

I would like to add to those requesting the external movemail capability.   We
need this capability to convert forwarded lotus mail into an acceptable Mozilla
mail format for understanding original addressees.

We have been heavily relying on this within Netscape and as another user
mentioned  this is keeping us from fully embracing Mozilla.   Is this something
that could be looked at in the near future?

Comment 9

[Adam D. Moss]

-> movemail owner

Comment 10

[Chris Morris]

My OS is Windows XP and my email Is from MSN and Netscape.I would like to see us
be able to migrate over to Mozilla. Could this problem pleased be fixed.

Comment 11

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 257248 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Carl Ponder]

Could this be written as an extension to Thunderbird?

Comment 13

[Sune Mølgaard]

I should deem external movemail of rising importance. /var/mail/ (or where else, it's located on different distros) is often not only non-writable by users, but also having their permissions updated to this frequently. Current external movemail does F_WRLCK in this case, and succeeds.

So please implement external movemail, or, alternatively, consider using other types of locking.

Comment 14

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 15

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

The primary use case people want to use here is non-writable directories. In this case, bug 384774 will fix this bug.