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How to configure thunderbird to read (old) messages?

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me_Clio
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I configured an email address on my workstation in ubuntu months ago. Without client the emails which already came in cannot be read. How can I use Thunderbird? When I try to configure thunderbird (following e.g. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatic-account-configuration), it reports that 'the email account cannot be found'...

I configured an email address on my workstation in ubuntu months ago. Without client the emails which already came in cannot be read. How can I use Thunderbird? When I try to configure thunderbird (following e.g. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatic-account-configuration), it reports that 'the email account cannot be found'...

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Matt
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Thunderbird is looking for a mail account on a mail server. Have you checked your firewall setting that appropriate mail ports are open? 

What are you trying to do, really.  the first half of your question relates to mail already downloaded.
me_Clio
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Thanks for your poke, Matt... It pushed me a bit to search for more information. Apparently, it seems I installed at the time email-handling with a "postfix" configuration. So, the question was, how can I read messages (which came in long ago) properly with thunderbird?

... Google gives then the following answer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/192572/how-do-i-read-local-email-in-thunderbird

Sorry for bothering and thank you!