On 31/07/2023 00:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:53:39 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
... I use Claws 99% of the time, but occasionally run Thunderbird.
Neither program cares that I have also used the other to read my
mail.
Ah, but you're using IMAP4 and leaving your emails on t
On Monday, 31 July 2023 08:34:05 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> On 31/07/2023 00:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:53:39 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >>> ... I use Claws 99% of the time, but occasionally run Thunderbird.
> >>> Neither program cares that I have also used the other to re
On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:33:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > But you're running the IMAP server locally, so what difference does
> > > it make?
>
> It's just the way things have 'just growed'. I could start again with
> the server keeping the mails itself, but it's a good deal of work.
Not
On 31/07/2023 13:33, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday, 31 July 2023 08:34:05 BST Wols Lists wrote:
On 31/07/2023 00:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:53:39 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
... I use Claws 99% of the time, but occasionally run Thunderbird.
Neither program cares that I
On Monday, 31 July 2023 15:19:22 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> The big question that needs answering is "Are you storing your emails in
> dovecot, or in kmail?"
In KMail.
My server has fetchmail -> postfix -> dovecot. Fetchmail collects POP3 emails
from my ISP and forwards it to postfix, and dovecot
>-Original Message-
>From: Neil Bothwick
>Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2023 5:43 AM
>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS
>
>On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:47:53 +0100, Michael wrote:
>> I doubt I will need anything so frequent, these days my da
On Monday, 31 July 2023 14:26:16 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:33:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > But you're running the IMAP server locally, so what difference does
> > > > it make?
> >
> > It's just the way things have 'just growed'. I could start again with
> > the s
On Monday, 31 July 2023 02:12:00 BST Matt Connell wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-07-29 at 01:29 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. (Loyal? Masochistic
> > might be a better word.) It suits me exactly - or it would if it were
> > reliable. It isn't, though, which
On Monday, 31 July 2023 17:03:49 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I already have it set up, so I hope I'd only have to deselect "Download all
> messages for offline use" and then drag the locally stored emails to the IMAP
> Account, which is shown at the top of the folder list, attached. Does that
> cr
On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 17:14 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I see it's a gnome program and has 17 new dependencies (to this box).
Unfortunately one of them is webkit-gtk, which, if you don't have it
already, is a compilation lift.
Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire
>
> Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire web
> engine for an email client" but I'm also in the group of people who
> knows full well what the answer is.
>
What is the answer?
Mutt doesn't need a web engine.
>
On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 20:16 +0300, Alexe Stefan wrote:
> > Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire
> > web
> > engine for an email client" but I'm also in the group of people who
> > knows full well what the answer is.
>
> What is the answer?
> Mutt doesn't need a web en
On Monday, 31 July 2023 17:25:20 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 31 July 2023 17:03:49 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I already have it set up, so I hope I'd only have to deselect "Download
> > all
> > messages for offline use" and then drag the locally stored emails to the
> > IMAP Account,
On 2023.07.31 13:23, Matt Connell wrote:
On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 20:16 +0300, Alexe Stefan wrote:
> > Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire
> > web
> > engine for an email client" but I'm also in the group of people
who
> > knows full well what the answer is.
>
> Wha
On 2023-07-31, Alexe Stefan wrote:
>>
>> Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire web
>> engine for an email client" but I'm also in the group of people who
>> knows full well what the answer is.
>>
>
> What is the answer?
Most of us don't like reading HTML.
> Mutt does
On Monday, 31 July 2023 17:25:20 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 31 July 2023 17:03:49 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I already have it set up, so I hope I'd only have to deselect "Download
> > all
> > messages for offline use" and then drag the locally stored emails to the
> > IMAP Account,
On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:26:03 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I thought I should be able to specify where outgoing mail should be
> put, but I can't find it now.
That's a setting in the mail client.
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:03:49 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> What should I do about backups of the server?
Don't bother, hard disks are dead reliable these days ;-)
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On Monday, 31 July 2023 19:13:19 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:26:03 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I thought I should be able to specify where outgoing mail should be
> > put, but I can't find it now.
>
> That's a setting in the mail client.
Kmail Settings > Accounts > Iden
On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 14:46 -0400, Kusoneko wrote:
> Why would you want a mail client to also be a web browser when you already
> have a web browser to do that job? I will never understand the mindset of
> trying to include web browsers into everything. Web browsers are massive
> pieces of softw
> Jul 31, 2023 13:23:21 Matt Connell :
>
> > On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 20:16 +0300, Alexe Stefan wrote:
> >>> Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire
> >>> web engine for an email client" but I'm also in the group of people
> >>> who knows full well what the answer is.
>
On 2023-07-31, Kusoneko wrote:
>
> Jul 31, 2023 13:52:25 Grant Edwards :
>
>> On 2023-07-31, Kusoneko wrote:
>>>
Don't get me wrong, I'm "team plaintext" all day every day but I'm not
going to make my life more difficult on principles. There are hills
worth dying on but this isn't
David
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 4:22 PM Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2023-07-31, Kusoneko wrote:
> >
> > Jul 31, 2023 13:52:25 Grant Edwards :
> >
> >> On 2023-07-31, Kusoneko wrote:
> >>>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm "team plaintext" all day every day but I'm not
> going to make my life more
On Monday, 31 July 2023 17:01:21 BST Laurence Perkins wrote:
> >-Original Message-
> >From: Neil Bothwick
> >Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2023 5:43 AM
> >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS
> >
> >On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:47:53 +0100, Micha
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