<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>1. Can I download mails on some other machine using fetchmail, copy
the mail file from this machine, take it to my machine at home, and
have Thunderbird get those mails?<br><br>2. What is the configuration required for this?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>This might help <a href="http://www.pantz.org/software/thunderbird/thunderbirdandmovemail.html">http://www.pantz.org/software/thunderbird/thunderbirdandmovemail.html</a><br><br></div></div>procedure in the article is, <br>
<br> Gmail => fetchmail => procmail => { local file } => thunderbird<br><br>this is how you could possibly modify the setup, <br><br> Gmail => fetchmail => procmail => { local file (remote) } => rsync = >{ usb disk } => {local file (home)} thunderbird (saves in .thunderbird)<br>
<br><br>thanks<br>gourav<br>