Gmail and Claws

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Shlomo,

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:56 PM Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Steve and you were not alone:

* https://github.com/shlomif/convert-away-from-kmail

*
https://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=tree;f=tools;h=7404d880a11ff8308deb69bbf828df7c38d4d187;hb=HEAD

I kinda miss the old pre-Akonadi kmail. :( .




> 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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> Claws Mail 3.16.0 - Kubuntu 18.04
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