[GTALUG] Sane Email System?

[o1bigtenor]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 7:25 PM Howard Gibson via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
A long time mentor, no deceased, espoused Claws - - - which itself
is a fork of Slypheed. IIRC Sylpheed is sorta 'long in the tooth' (OK
it seems its sometimes called Slypheed-Claws - - - sorry).

HTH