[GTALUG] Sane Email System?

[Howard Gibson]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 20:18:14 -0500
Peter King via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I've just been informed that "legacy authentication" is going to be
> disabled at the University of Toronto for my email account.  Well, I
> suspected something like this was in the works when they adopted MS Outlook
> 365+ as the mail server, but it still isn't welcome.
> 
> Up to now, I've been able to use mutt and getmail for all my needs; I run a
> daemon that picks up (and then deletes) email from a variety of servers
> (University of Toronto, GMail, and so on) onto a single computer.  There
> I apply all the filters, spam protection, sorting into various inboxes,
> and so on.  To read email I just ssh in from any computer anywhere and run
> mutt.  All configurable with nice text-based scripts.  The email files are
> automatically backed up and sychronized to other computers, too.  When I'm
> out of town I have the mail be downloaded/deleteed manually, and I have
> full fallover capability, so if one machine is offline I can switch to
> another without any hiccups.
> -- 
> Peter King			 	peter.king at utoronto.ca
> Department of Philosophy

Peter,

   I use the email client Sylpheed to access gmail among other things.   I use POP to download email.  I don't like leaving personal information up on the cloud.   Sylpheed stores it email in MH format, just like mutt.

-- 
Howard Gibson 
hgibson at eol.ca
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