On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:21:25 +1100 Keith Bainbridge <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good afternon All > > I was interested to read that Flo, the OP, uses separate mail > collection, sendmail and thunderbird. Some of the replies sound like > this is a common practice. > > What are the advantages of this set of processes over letting tbird do > it all? - or any other client for that matter? As far as I know, TB isn't an MTA, it can send email only as a client to an MTA somewhere else. So it's not doing it all. A lot depends how you want to send and receive emails. If you're using an external email service, you can get away with just an email client, or even use webmail. If you're sending and receiving yourself, you'll need an MTA and an email distribution method such as POP3 or IMAP, as well as clients on any devices you have. If you're also collecting email from an external service, you'll need an email collector such as fetchmail or procmail, to keep all email centrally stored. > > Would it save me from my fairly regular 'can't find profile' errors? > > Thanks Don't know, I gave up TB for Claws-mail long ago, TB was just too painfully slow. > > PS Am I wrong to avoid 'everyting in 1 file' where possible (mail dir > rather than mbox in this case)? OK this is probably a whole separate > topic. As I've posted elsewhere, I have about 3GB of email. I would not consider putting that in one file. -- Joe
