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On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:22:13 -0500
Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 4:42 AM <mike.junk.46@att.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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>.
> 

I use Claws, but from a local network IMAP server, using a network MTA.
I wouldn't have thought POP should behave very differently. Claws with
external accounts shouldn't need a local MTA, the SMTP server you have
configured for the account is the MTA, which Claws will talk to
directly.

I think you must have a local MTA for some system emails to work, but
there are very much simpler ones than exim4 to do that job. Someone
else can probably help here, as I have exim4 on all my Linux machines.

Thunderbird is a respectable email client but I find it very slow on
normal PCs, and it will be glacial on a Pi, even a 4. Whatever the
issue is which is stopping Claws may also affect TB. You got the TB
advice because it's what most people are familiar with, not because
it's any better for email than Claws. Having said that, TB has
connection parameters built in for the big, well-known email providers
such as Gmail and MS.

Something that is sometimes difficult in these encrypted days is
getting the right combination of ports and password protocols. The old
unencrypted connection to port 110 for POP3 probably doesn't work
anywhere now.

-- 
Joe

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claws-mail mike.junk.46@att.net - 2023-11-13 06:00 +0100
  Re: claws-mail Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-11-13 07:30 +0100
  Re: claws-mail Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-11-13 11:30 +0100
    Re: claws-mail Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2023-11-13 12:40 +0100
    Re: claws-mail Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-11-13 13:20 +0100
      Re: claws-mail Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-11-13 13:20 +0100
      Re: claws-mail Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2023-11-13 16:30 +0100
  Re: claws-mail Andreas Ronnquist <mailinglists@gusnan.se> - 2023-11-13 17:00 +0100
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