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Quoting Erik Josefsson (2019-06-15 08:24:40)
> On 5/26/19 4:36 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-26 16:25:43)
> >> On Sunday 26 May 2019 07:05:45 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >>> Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-05-26 12:28:43)
> >>>> On my netbook,  Thunderbird seems really unstable, it stars up 
> >>>> fine then seems to stall and fails to respond,  it eventually 
> >>>> picks up.
> > [...]
> >> One thing that will "freeze" it is using its own download 
> >> facilities to fetch the mail, used to bug me pretty badly, but when 
> >> it did come back, everything I had typed into a message came back 
> >> with it.  So I offloaded that fetching of emails by making 
> >> fetchmail, procmail, clamscan and spamassassin all into background 
> >> tasks that have minimal effect on kmail.  Now my freezes are maybe 
> >> a second as it sorts an incoming email that has servived the spam 
> >> and viri filters.
> > Good point!  (this is Thunderbird not KMail but still applies)
> >
> > For IMAP mail, I recommend more modern alternatives to fetchmail:
> >
> >    * pullimap
> >    * offlineimap

Correction: My recommendations are _interimap_ and offlineimap.

pullimap is related to interimap but does a different task of 
client-side sending emails from an IMAP folder, e.g. on a self-hosted 
server with IMAP service but no SMTP service (SMTP is more complex to 
self-host due to spam and domain registry challenges).


> Could you recommend one of them to use with an install of the 
> box-add-gui alternative for Teres-I?

I recommend them for use with Debian systems, regardless of how they 
were bootstrapped.

I have not yet used interimap myself, but have high expectations for its 
quality and encouraged its author to get it packaged for Debian a year 
ago, where I sought advice from him on my own Dovecot-specific sync 
scripts and he told about interimap being developed but not in Debian.  
He actually lives in Sweden like you, Erik. :-)

When I get around to using it myself I will likely add it to one of the 
addon profiles of the https://box.redpill.dk/ images but not the gui 
profile specifically: It is a command-line tool, not graphical.


> As far as I can see, pullimap needs libconfig-tiny-perl and 
> libinterimap, and offlineimap needs python-imaplib2 and python-socks.
> 
> Perhaps one is more lightweight than the other?

interimap should be more efficient but requires a good IMAP server like 
Dovecot (see package description) whereas offlineimap works with a wider 
variety of servers including Gmail.


 - Jonas

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Diagnosing what applications are doing Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-05-26 12:30 +0200
  Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-26 13:10 +0200
    Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-05-26 16:30 +0200
      Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-26 16:40 +0200
        Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-06-15 08:30 +0200
          Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-15 09:30 +0200
            Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-06-15 18:30 +0200
  Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-05-26 13:40 +0200
    Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-05-26 16:20 +0200

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