Re: claws-mail

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 4:42 AM <mike.junk.46@att.net> wrote:
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> I'm running bookworm on a Raspberry Pi 4b.
> mike@rpi4b3:~> uname -a
> Linux MikesPI 6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.54-1+rpt2 (2023-10-05) aarch64 GNU/Linux
>     This install didn't include exim4, postfix or anything supplying sendmail and fetchmail won't work without an MTA.
>     I've set up several accounts in claws-mail for email accounts at att.net and gmail.com but so far haven't got them right to  the point that claws-mail will collect mail from any of those accounts via POP mail.
>     I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to get claws-mail working, so far the only suggestions I've gotten from the Raspberry Pi forum is to switch to thunderbird.
>     I don't understand how either will handle local email like comes from cron or other system programs and I depend on several scripts to do daily checks on the system which cron emails me about on my buster system which has exim4, fetchmail and mutt installed. Obviously I can install those here too but suspect if I get this system set up correctly it should perform similarly.
>
> Any advice appreciated.

I seem to recall IMAP is a better choice than POP when using Claws.

Also see the CM wiki, and articles like
<https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Using_Claws_Mail_with_Gmail>.

Jeff