On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:44:40 +0000 Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:13:11 -0700 > Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 04:47:50 +0000 "Blair, Charles E III" > > <c-bl...@illinois.edu> wrote: > > > > > I am using debian 7.11, which includes version > > > 3.8.1 of claws-mail. I have recently been having > > > problems with this, and have been advised that I > > > need to upgrade to 3.11.1. It didn't seem possible > > > to do this with aptitude, and I am hoping there is > > > some other painless way. > > > > You're SOL: Claws 3.11 isn't available for Wheezy. At least, not > > that I've been able to find. > > > > A couple years ago, I too started having problems with Claws. I > > could receive but couldn't send or reply. Later, I was unable to > > connect to my email providers at all. They had slowly changed their > > security protocols which Claws couldn't handle. I upgraded to 3.10 > > from Wheezy-Backports, but that didn't help. Had to be at least > > 3.11 which worked fine on my Jessie install running in VirtualBox. > > Even looked into compiling 3.11 from source. No go. Dependencies. > > Wheezy libraries and such were too old. And the newer libraries > > were not available for Wheezy. Some had systemd dependencies as > > well. Compile them? Nope. Dependencies were the killer. Even > > thought of adding the Jessie repos to get the libraries, but that > > wouldn't work. I'd have to upgrade too much of Wheezy, if it would > > work at all. And I was fearful of trashing my system. So, I > > switched to Sylpheed. Not as good as Claws, but it worked. Now, > > it's starting to have problems: Can't send attachments. > > > > The easiest solution if you want to use Claws is to upgrade to a > > newer version of Debian. Sorry. > > > > If the problems are indeed about connectivity, possibly the use of > specialist email connectivity software might help i.e. an MTA rather > than an MUA. I'd be willing to bet that exim4 would deal with any > connectivity problems, and unless it has been explicitly removed, it > is part of a default Debian installation and may even be running at > this very moment. > > OK, there's a bit of a learning curve, but it may be less traumatic > than upgrading the whole OS. It's a mainstream MTA, there is plenty of > help on the Net, and this application, an outgoing smarthost with > (presumably) authentication and/or TLS, isn't particularly exotic. > Here are some basics: > https://wiki.debian.org/Exim > > I'm using claws on sid with exim4 on wheezy as smarthost, and I'm > sending direct to the rest of the world without problems. I'm not > currently using any authenticated sending from exim4, but I have done > in the past.
Well, the developer of Claws on his web site said the "problems" users were experiencing was in Claws itself and it had been fixed in 3.11. I don't know if it was a bug or something else. IIRC, the problem was caused by the implementation of new security protocols by email providers like Yahoo and GMail, among others, because of a major breach Yahoo had a couple years ago. B
