77212 - Problems configuring movemail if server is local.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Movemail, defect)

Description

[Rich Burridge]

The problem as described by Dr. David Wales ([e-mail]):

"I have installed  netscape 6 on an E4000 running Solaris 8. Most things 
 now seem to work, but I am unable to set up mail. All the documentation, 
 and the "wizard", only seems to treat imap and pop3 servers. What about 
 machines with local mail store? This always used to work with netscape 
 4. Setting server type to "none" in the prefs.js file seems to be a step 
 in the right direction, but I cannot see how movemail is supposed to be 
 set up? Outgoing mail does work, by the way, using server localhost."

Comment 1

[Eray Ozkural]

on 2001051306 build, 0.9+, for linux, I am unable to create a movemail account.
the movemail account converted from 4.x does exist but it's dysfunctional (it
used an external movemail application) and I am not able to change movemail
settings. When I go to server settings I see IMAP settings in "advanced".

Comment 2

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

most, if not all, of the problems you listed are known bugs.  movemail (as you
can tell) isn't officially supported yet and isn't a high priority.

Comment 3

[Peter O'Shea]

I'm surprised that no mozilla.org people have mentioned it, but there is a page
on mozilla.org describing how to get movemail set up.  Go here:
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/movemail/">

I'd be interested to find out if the person on Solaris 8 runs into bug <a
href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95626">
#95626.

Comment 4

[Adam D. Moss]

As Seth commented, this is simply known to be
nontrivial to set up without a UI, and adding a UI
for this is already covered by another bug.

Hence I'm resolving the bug as FIXED.