Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

[didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com>]

Le mercredi 05 janvier 2022 à 09:44 -0500, Paul M. Foster a écrit :
> 
> Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is 
> relatively easy to configure?
> 
> Paul

Hello Paul,

For GUI MUAs,
others have suggested Claws-mail (with the mbox plgin, by default Claws
only manages MH mailboxes) and I confirm it can do what you want. 
A problem is that certain MUAs (Balsa, Geary, etc...) manage Mbox
mailboxes but cannot associate a Mbox with a true local account
(/var/mail/...) or do this with severe limitations.
Confronted like you to Thunderbird changes (integrated OpenPGP instead
of gpg standard integration, and now movemail management
suppression...), I chose Evolution and do not regret it: I find it to
be slighty better, with the only drawback of NNTP, still perfectible

For CLI/TUI MUAs, 
I think they are all genuine MUAs, designed to cope with /var/mail Mbox
mailboxes

Cheers :-)