65720 - Movemail support for leaving mail in /var/mail/$USER

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Movemail, enhancement)

Description

[Tobias Burnus]

From bug 11049:
> Question: Does this "movemail" implement "movemail IMAP-style" (= movemail)
> eaves mail in /var/mail/$USER, adds references to it's database and marks
> mail in /var/mail/$USER as "read" (is that possible ?)) ? This would allow 
> users to use the mailer of their choice (like pine, /usr/ucb/from, dtmail
> etc.) to read/send messages...

Since it is usually eval to leave mail in /var/(spool/)mail/$USER this should be
a movemail option (?).

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW.

Comment 2

[Dennis Bijwaard]

Yes, this would be very handy on linux/unix systems that have their own or
mounted mail spooler! On my linux system the mail spool lives in $MAIL, which
equals /var/spool/mail/$USER.

A number of unix/linux users use fetchmail or something similar to pop the mail
from accounts. I don't want mozilla to put it in its Inbox, that makes it harder
to read it with other mail clients like mutt, pine, etc. Especially when the
mozilla mail saves Inbox on a local disk and you log in to different systems
regularly with NFS mounted $MAIL.

Comment 3

[Adam D. Moss]

-> movemail owner

Comment 4

[Matěj Cepl]

Isn't this exactly against the logic of http://www.jwz.org/doc/movemail.html? Shouldn't this bug be WONTFIX?

Comment 5

[Tobias Burnus]

> Isn't this exactly against the logic of http://www.jwz.org/doc/movemail.html?

Might be. Actually, I don't know whether it should be a move-mail option or not, but I would like to be able to read the same emails with mutt and with thunderbird. As mutt operates on $MAIL, why shouldn't Thunderbird operate on $MAIL as well.

Comment 6

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

I'm not sure if the Netscape movemail should still be the definition of what's used in mailnews. And even if there are valid reasons for mailnews not to operate on $MAIL there should be an option to keep the $MAIL contents w/o removing them after movemailing.

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 10

[:aceman]

The assignee is probably no longer valid.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Support for Movemail has been removed as of version 87 per Bug 1625741