Gmail and Claws

[Shlomo Solomon]

Thanks to Steve, Ori and Moish for your help.

All your suggestions seem good, but:
1 - I really did not want to make such major changes. If it ain't
broke ....
2 - I'm just too tired or annoyed to have to waste so much of my and
your time. Am I getting to old for this nonsense??

SO - I surrendered to Google and set up an app password, even though
this forced me to first set up 2-factor authentication on my Google
account.

BTW - after setting up the app password, I dis-abled 2-factor, but
Google in it's immense wisdom no longer allowed me to use the app
password, so I had to go back to 2-factor and re-generate the app
password.

Still to early to tell how much 2-factor will interfere with my use of
other Google products such as Drive, Youtube, Maps. But at least I
have my mail back with no change to my old setup - except for the
changed password.


BTW - Steve: While looking for other solutions, I found your article on
"Escape From Kmail". Too bad I didn't see this article years ago
because a few years ago I too spent about a week figuring out how
to get rid of the monstrosity of KMail and Akonadi and move to Claws.

On a side note - I'm on Kubuntu 18.04 LTS and in preparation to upgrade
to 20.04 LTS, I read that KMail and the entire KDE PIM are no longer the
default on the new Kubuntu.



Again - thanks for all your help

And I will save this thread, in case I ever decide to do a major
overhaul.





On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:38:45 +0300
Moish <moish at mln.co.il> wrote:

> same here.
> using dovcot to handle my local folders.
> works like a charm for several years.
> I use IMAP wqo expunge to keep a backup on gmail.
> 
> Oh, one more thing. Try to change the frequency of pop check.
> 
> BWT I use gmvault to download all mail from gmail to my pc.
> 
> On 26/04/2020 10:35, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:37:11 +0300
> > shlomo solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >>>> It's easy to access email by IMAP instead of POP. That may or may
> >>>> not fix it, but either way, it gives you some info.  
> >   
> >> I don't use imap because I don't want to sync my Claws mail to
> >> Gmail - just to download new mail.  
> > 
> > Euuuu, I can think of nothing grosser (American meaning, not
> > "bigger") than syncing an email client to that rotten garbage bin
> > called "gmail". But nowadays you can use IMAP just like POP:
> > Download and expunge. The following is the part of my .fetchmailrc
> > that retrieves then deletes my gmail litttest mail. I'm sure you
> > can do the exact same thing direct from Claws.
> > 
> > poll imap.gmail.com protocol IMAP
> >          user 'litttest aatt gmail.com' there is 'slitt' here
> >          pass 'my-ultra-secret-password'
> >          #portnumber 993
> >          limit 50000000
> >          warnings 3200
> >          expunge 60
> >          mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
> >          fetchlimit 50
> >          ssl;
> > 
> > 
> > SteveT
> > 
> > Steve Litt
> > March 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother?
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb
> > 
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Shlomo Solomon
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Claws Mail 3.16.0 - Kubuntu 18.04