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Re: Claws email

From	Jim S <jim@jimXscott.co.uk>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: Claws email
Date	2025-01-17 17:22 +0000
Organization	To protect and to server
Message-ID	<vme3k0$8j0d$1@paganini.bofh.team> (permalink)
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On 16/01/2025 18:37, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Jim the Geordie <jim@jimxscott.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 16/01/2025 13:09, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>> Jim the Geordie <jim@jimxscott.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to set up Claws email client.
>>>> It seems that Gmail no longer supports 'less-secure' apps.
>>>
>>>     You can indeed no longer use 'less-secure' apps, but you can use 'App
>>> passwords' instead. That basically means that instead of your Google
>>> account password, you use a special generated password, just for this
>>> purpose.
>>>
>>>     I use (Google) 'App passwords' in Thunderbird to access my Gmail
>>> accounts.
>>>
>>>     See 'Learn more' on <https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords>
>>>
>>>> Does this make it impossible to use Gmail accounts on Claws, or is there
>>>> another way?
>>
>> Still can't do it.
>> It all seems a bit of a phart.
>> There's no SSL, which Claws mentions in its documentation for v4.3.
> 
>    You mean Claws does not support SSL?
> 
>> All I'm trying to do is find an email client which will do what
>> Thunderbird does without it using a big chunk of memory (and is free and
>> will take 4 addresses of various kinds) and makes the tea and lays
>> golden eggs :)
> 
>    An older version of Thunderbird? My 60.9.0 version uses about 130 MB
> memory, which isn't small, but is about the same size as (Windows) File
> Explorer.
> 
>    BTW, as you're using Betterbird to post to Usenet, can't you just use
> that for e-mail as well?

Well, I do. I just refer to it as Thunderbird for simplicity.
I'm getting readings of memory in the region of 260-380 MB on either of 
them (Tb or Bb), which seems excessive, and I don't have masses of 
emails in store.

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Claws email Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-01-16 10:36 +0000
  Re: Claws email Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-16 13:09 +0000
    Re: Claws email Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-01-16 15:38 +0000
      Re: Claws email Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-16 18:37 +0000
        Re: Claws email Jim S <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-01-17 17:22 +0000
      Re: Claws email Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-01-17 21:14 +0300
        Re: Claws email Jim The Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-01-18 09:56 +0000
          Re: Claws email John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2025-01-18 10:41 +0000
            Re: Claws email Jim S <jim@jimsXscott.co.uk> - 2025-01-18 11:25 +0000
      Re: Claws email Michael Logies <logies@t-online.de> - 2025-01-18 16:22 +0100
        Re: Claws email Jim S <jim@jimsXscott.co.uk> - 2025-01-18 16:10 +0000
          Re: Claws email Michael Logies <logies@t-online.de> - 2025-01-18 19:01 +0100

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