Quoting Erik Josefsson (2019-06-15 08:24:40) > On 5/26/19 4:36 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-26 16:25:43) > >> On Sunday 26 May 2019 07:05:45 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >>> Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-05-26 12:28:43) > >>>> On my netbook, Thunderbird seems really unstable, it stars up > >>>> fine then seems to stall and fails to respond, it eventually > >>>> picks up. > > [...] > >> One thing that will "freeze" it is using its own download > >> facilities to fetch the mail, used to bug me pretty badly, but when > >> it did come back, everything I had typed into a message came back > >> with it. So I offloaded that fetching of emails by making > >> fetchmail, procmail, clamscan and spamassassin all into background > >> tasks that have minimal effect on kmail. Now my freezes are maybe > >> a second as it sorts an incoming email that has servived the spam > >> and viri filters. > > Good point! (this is Thunderbird not KMail but still applies) > > > > For IMAP mail, I recommend more modern alternatives to fetchmail: > > > > * pullimap > > * offlineimap
Correction: My recommendations are _interimap_ and offlineimap. pullimap is related to interimap but does a different task of client-side sending emails from an IMAP folder, e.g. on a self-hosted server with IMAP service but no SMTP service (SMTP is more complex to self-host due to spam and domain registry challenges). > Could you recommend one of them to use with an install of the > box-add-gui alternative for Teres-I? I recommend them for use with Debian systems, regardless of how they were bootstrapped. I have not yet used interimap myself, but have high expectations for its quality and encouraged its author to get it packaged for Debian a year ago, where I sought advice from him on my own Dovecot-specific sync scripts and he told about interimap being developed but not in Debian. He actually lives in Sweden like you, Erik. :-) When I get around to using it myself I will likely add it to one of the addon profiles of the https://box.redpill.dk/ images but not the gui profile specifically: It is a command-line tool, not graphical. > As far as I can see, pullimap needs libconfig-tiny-perl and > libinterimap, and offlineimap needs python-imaplib2 and python-socks. > > Perhaps one is more lightweight than the other? interimap should be more efficient but requires a good IMAP server like Dovecot (see package description) whereas offlineimap works with a wider variety of servers including Gmail. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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