Thanks to Steve, Ori and Moish for your help. All your suggestions seem good, but: 1 - I really did not want to make such major changes. If it ain't broke .... 2 - I'm just too tired or annoyed to have to waste so much of my and your time. Am I getting to old for this nonsense??
SO - I surrendered to Google and set up an app password, even though this forced me to first set up 2-factor authentication on my Google account. BTW - after setting up the app password, I dis-abled 2-factor, but Google in it's immense wisdom no longer allowed me to use the app password, so I had to go back to 2-factor and re-generate the app password. Still to early to tell how much 2-factor will interfere with my use of other Google products such as Drive, Youtube, Maps. But at least I have my mail back with no change to my old setup - except for the changed password. BTW - Steve: While looking for other solutions, I found your article on "Escape From Kmail". Too bad I didn't see this article years ago because a few years ago I too spent about a week figuring out how to get rid of the monstrosity of KMail and Akonadi and move to Claws. On a side note - I'm on Kubuntu 18.04 LTS and in preparation to upgrade to 20.04 LTS, I read that KMail and the entire KDE PIM are no longer the default on the new Kubuntu. Again - thanks for all your help And I will save this thread, in case I ever decide to do a major overhaul. On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:38:45 +0300 Moish <mo...@mln.co.il> wrote: > same here. > using dovcot to handle my local folders. > works like a charm for several years. > I use IMAP wqo expunge to keep a backup on gmail. > > Oh, one more thing. Try to change the frequency of pop check. > > BWT I use gmvault to download all mail from gmail to my pc. > > On 26/04/2020 10:35, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:37:11 +0300 > > shlomo solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >>>> It's easy to access email by IMAP instead of POP. That may or may > >>>> not fix it, but either way, it gives you some info. > > > >> I don't use imap because I don't want to sync my Claws mail to > >> Gmail - just to download new mail. > > > > Euuuu, I can think of nothing grosser (American meaning, not > > "bigger") than syncing an email client to that rotten garbage bin > > called "gmail". But nowadays you can use IMAP just like POP: > > Download and expunge. The following is the part of my .fetchmailrc > > that retrieves then deletes my gmail litttest mail. I'm sure you > > can do the exact same thing direct from Claws. > > > > poll imap.gmail.com protocol IMAP > > user 'litttest aatt gmail.com' there is 'slitt' here > > pass 'my-ultra-secret-password' > > #portnumber 993 > > limit 50000000 > > warnings 3200 > > expunge 60 > > mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" > > fetchlimit 50 > > ssl; > > > > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > March 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-il mailing list > > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Claws Mail 3.16.0 - Kubuntu 18.04 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
