Re: Need to upgrade claws-mail on debian 7.1
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:44:40 +0000 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> 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.
Well, the developer of Claws on his web site said the "problems" users
were experiencing was in Claws itself and it had been fixed in 3.11. I
don't know if it was a bug or something else. IIRC, the problem was
caused by the implementation of new security protocols by email
providers like Yahoo and GMail, among others, because of a major breach
Yahoo had a couple years ago.
B
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