Re: Need to upgrade claws-mail on debian 7.1
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:13:11 -0700
Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 04:47:50 +0000 "Blair, Charles E III"
> <c-blair@illinois.edu> wrote:
>
> > I am using debian 7.11, which includes version
> > 3.8.1 of claws-mail. I have recently been having
> > problems with this, and have been advised that I
> > need to upgrade to 3.11.1. It didn't seem possible
> > to do this with aptitude, and I am hoping there is
> > some other painless way.
>
> You're SOL: Claws 3.11 isn't available for Wheezy. At least, not
> that I've been able to find.
>
> A couple years ago, I too started having problems with Claws. I
> could receive but couldn't send or reply. Later, I was unable to
> connect to my email providers at all. They had slowly changed their
> security protocols which Claws couldn't handle. I upgraded to 3.10
> from Wheezy-Backports, but that didn't help. Had to be at least 3.11
> which worked fine on my Jessie install running in VirtualBox. Even
> looked into compiling 3.11 from source. No go. Dependencies. Wheezy
> libraries and such were too old. And the newer libraries were not
> available for Wheezy. Some had systemd dependencies as well. Compile
> them? Nope. Dependencies were the killer. Even thought of adding the
> Jessie repos to get the libraries, but that wouldn't work. I'd have
> to upgrade too much of Wheezy, if it would work at all. And I was
> fearful of trashing my system. So, I switched to Sylpheed. Not as
> good as Claws, but it worked. Now, it's starting to have problems:
> Can't send attachments.
>
> The easiest solution if you want to use Claws is to upgrade to a newer
> version of Debian. Sorry.
>
If the problems are indeed about connectivity, possibly the use of
specialist email connectivity software might help i.e. an MTA rather
than an MUA. I'd be willing to bet that exim4 would deal with any
connectivity problems, and unless it has been explicitly removed, it is
part of a default Debian installation and may even be running at this
very moment.
OK, there's a bit of a learning curve, but it may be less traumatic
than upgrading the whole OS. It's a mainstream MTA, there is plenty of
help on the Net, and this application, an outgoing smarthost with
(presumably) authentication and/or TLS, isn't particularly exotic. Here
are some basics:
https://wiki.debian.org/Exim
I'm using claws on sid with exim4 on wheezy as smarthost, and I'm
sending direct to the rest of the world without problems. I'm not
currently using any authenticated sending from exim4, but I have done
in the past.
--
Joe
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