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Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing

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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

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

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?

Best regards.

//Erik

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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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