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I am on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 running Webmin 1.998, Postfix 9.4.1, Thunderbird 91.11.

How can I use Thunderbird to read my root / webmin emails?

Researching this, I can only find an old post whose solutions all seem out-dated, due to changes in Thunderbird:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/2261/how-are-administrators-supposed-to-read-roots-mail

Things I tried:
https://askubuntu.com/a/1390751/426818

I installed sudo apt install mailutils-imap4d # IMAP rebooted and configured TB accordingly. All I get is TB unable to connect server error message.

Update

I have created /.forward containing user@localhost and in my /etc/aliases file, I have

postmaster:    root
root:   user

TB still refuses to connect user@localhost

Any tips?

mjones
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  • Move the emails to your user maildir (and change perms if required)? Set forwarding from root -> your user for future emails? – davidgo Jul 31 '22 at 05:37
  • @davidgo thanks for the tip. Not have any luck with this. Its seems to be more difficult to read toot mail on my laptop, than my web servers.. go figure :-0 – mjones Jul 31 '22 at 06:16

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