No email in 11.10

[Aart Koelewijn]

Hello,

I just upgraded my laptop (luckily only my laptop) to 11.10. Then I found 
it does not have Evolution any more as an email client. So I tried 
Thunderbird. But Thunderbird has some configuration wizard that makes it 
impossible for me to configure it in such a way that I can receive and 
send emails.

In short, I have my own email domain. The mailserver for that is run on 
my desktop. My laptop gets its email with fetchmail from my desktop and 
sends it through my desktop using a vpn-tunnel. For this I run exim on 
both my desktop and laptop.

I can't find a way to configure Thunderbird to work in this way. It only 
wants to make a pop or imap connection to my provider, but there I have a 
bSMTP connection, and the email is divided over the different users by 
the email-server on my desktop.

So I either want evolution back, or a way to configure Thunderbird to run 
in the old fashioned unix way with a local mailserver and a spool file. 
How can I reach those goals?

Aart