[GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

[Howard Gibson]

Ron,

   A very long time ago, I switched to Sylpheed, which uses the MH format.  In the old days, I used Mbox, and I could switch mail tools any time I felt like it.  There are times when I miss that capability, but MH, with a file for each email has been extremely robust. 

   Sylpheed is a nice email tool, mostly plain text.  The thing I desperately needed at the time was the capability to download email, read it offline, and use send-later for my replies. 

On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:33:14 -0800
Ron / BCLUG via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> Howard Gibson via talk wrote on 2023-11-22 21:06:
> 
> > Handy tip folks -- Start your emails with a line feed at the top of the 
> > page. This will separate your content from the blurb corporate email 
> > servers will attach warning your recipients how evil and dangerous you 
> > are.
> 
> This is an interesting idea. I've seen mbox files get corrupted (all 
> mailbox messages in one file, and a line like "From: " is the message 
> delimiter. Terrible!)
> 
> So, blank line might help with that.
> 
> 
> I've recently switched to using Maildir format (server *and* 
> Thunderbird).  One message per file.
> 
> Thunderbird says it's not fully supported, but it works fine. The 
> unsupported features are in how Maildir *renames* a file (often also 
> with moving it via hard linking) to reflect changes in status (Read, etc.)
> 
> The Read, replied-to, etc. are stored elsewhere in Thunderbird.
> 
> 
> > I am considering taking out a URL for my website. If I contract 
> > with a service that provide email, I should be able to download that 
> > through popmail, right?
> 
> Unsure what's meant by "taking out a URL" -- registering a domain?
> 
> Anyway, POP should be provided by all email services (except Google 
> apparently), it's literally a single line or 3 of configuration file 
> entries and is probably enabled by default. So, those that don't offer 
> it have to remove the feature (as I understand it).
> 
> Also, it saves on disk space if the user immediately downloads and 
> deletes the messages, and that's a significant resource - disk space.
> 
> At least, it is in my situation.
> 
> 
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