On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 04:39:02 +0000 (UTC), mike.junk...@att.net<mike.junk...@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. > >Thanks, >Mike > I believe gmail _requires_ OAUTH2 authorisation for "non-secure apps" nowadays - which is pretty much all apps except gmails own. See https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Oauth2 for how to set it up (It's a bit complicated) - I have stopped using gmail with claws-mail, and don't use gmail very much. (They do a very bad job at following mail standards, which your problem is a good example of). My suggestion is to use another mail provider if possible. best -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se andr...@ronnquist.net
