fetchmail and thunderbird

[christian.ampenberger at comcast.net (Chris Ampenberger)]

> > my intent is to get fetch mail to download my emails to my home
> > machine on a scheduled manner to keep my server low on its disk usage
> > , but I still want to use my  ThunderBird as the email client.

I use fetchmail and store the mails in an imap server. My wife uses 
ThunderBird on her windows machine and access the imap server. That works 
reasonably well, however I don't have any experience with ThunderBird on 
Linux.

Chris