mailwatch-plugin: can check my local mailbox?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Rob wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have xfce4-mailwatch-plugin-1.0.1-6.fc7 installed on Fedora 7.
> 
> I don't understand how to configure it so that it detects new email on
> my local machine in $MAIL (= /var/spool/mail/username). Kind of similar
> to what xbiff would do.
> 
> I tried the two 'spool options':
>   Local Maildir Spool
>   Local Mbox spool
> 
> and provided "/var/spool/mail" and "username", but that
> does not seem to work.
> 
> Am I misunderstanding the configuration, or is this impossible
> for mailwatch?

Local mbox, with /var/spool/mail/username as the mbox file should do it.

	-brian