• Re: Good email clients?

    From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 10 16:36:23 2024
    Am 10.04.2024 schrieb candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the
    ones I have looked at have had problems.

    Please specify notification.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 10 14:30:11 2024
    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Wed Apr 10 15:20:09 2024
    Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> wrote at 14:36 this Wednesday (GMT):
    Am 10.04.2024 schrieb candycanearter07
    <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the
    ones I have looked at have had problems.

    Please specify notification.


    Desktop notifications.
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  • From Lew Pitcher@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 10 15:34:16 2024
    On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:30:11 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:

    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    I'm happy with Sylpheed (https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/)

    --
    Lew Pitcher
    "In Skills We Trust"

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Lew Pitcher on Wed Apr 10 17:10:08 2024
    Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote at 15:34 this Wednesday (GMT):
    On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:30:11 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:

    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    I'm happy with Sylpheed (https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/)


    This is perfect! Thanks!
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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 10 18:31:07 2024
    On 2024-04-10 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    Thunderbird is probably the most complete one, followed by Evolution and
    Kmail.

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    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Thu Apr 11 07:55:03 2024
    Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    On 2024-04-10 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    Thunderbird is probably the most complete one, followed by Evolution and Kmail.

    Yikes, I found both Thunderbird and Evolution excruciatingly
    bloated and over-complicated, so I'd better stay well away from
    "Kmail". Those do both attempt accurate HTML rendering though,
    unlike clients I prefer such as Sylpheed and Alpine that roughly
    (but often very servicably) render HTML as plain text. That
    contributes a fair bit to their complexity, but hardly excuses how
    unfriendly they can be to configure, or to fix when they break.

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  • From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Thu Apr 11 01:32:56 2024
    On 2024-04-10, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
    Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    On 2024-04-10 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    Thunderbird is probably the most complete one, followed by Evolution and
    Kmail.

    Yikes, I found both Thunderbird and Evolution excruciatingly
    bloated and over-complicated, so I'd better stay well away from
    "Kmail". Those do both attempt accurate HTML rendering though,
    unlike clients I prefer such as Sylpheed and Alpine that roughly
    (but often very servicably) render HTML as plain text. That
    contributes a fair bit to their complexity, but hardly excuses how
    unfriendly they can be to configure, or to fix when they break.


    I agree 100%, aerc or neomutt etc for me are the best email
    clients and they also do whatever you need.

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  • From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to candycanearter07@candycanearter07.n on Thu Apr 11 01:31:45 2024
    On 2024-04-10, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    I like "aerc". https://aerc-mail.org/


    Happy Hacking
    ReK2
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    - [https|gemini]://2600.Madrid - https://hispagatos.space/@rek2
    - https://keyoxide.org/A31C7CE19D9C58084EA42BA26C0B0D11E9303EC5

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  • From D@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 11 10:04:08 2024
    On Thu, 11 Apr 2024, rek2 hispagatos wrote:

    On 2024-04-10, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    I like "aerc". https://aerc-mail.org/


    Happy Hacking
    ReK2


    I use alpine. https://alpineapp.email/ Very powerful and very spiritual.

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  • From LucLan@21:1/5 to candycanearter07@candycanearter07.n on Thu Apr 11 09:56:12 2024
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    I use mutt. Simple and it does the job.

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to LucLan on Thu Apr 11 12:07:05 2024
    LucLan <address@is.invalid> wrote:
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    I use mutt. Simple and it does the job.

    The OP also wants a notification also :)

    I also use mutt, for notifications you can try wmbiff or
    gkrellm. But this depends on your X environment. I use
    Window Managers as opposed to Desktop Environments, so
    wmbiff/gkrellm works fine. I do not know how wmbiff will
    work with KDE/GNOME and friends. Gkrellm works fine on
    any D/E.

    --
    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars

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  • From Yrrah@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 11 15:12:44 2024
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Sylpheed (https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/)

    This is perfect! Thanks!

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/features.php


    Yrrah

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Yrrah on Thu Apr 11 14:40:12 2024
    Yrrah <Yrrah-aolu@aolu.invalid> wrote at 13:12 this Thursday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Sylpheed (https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/)

    This is perfect! Thanks!

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/features.php


    Yrrah


    Had trouble getting it to connect to gmail when I tried. Of course, I'm
    having some server issues with sylpheed, but most of my accs work..
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Thu Apr 11 14:50:12 2024
    Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote at 21:55 this Wednesday (GMT):
    Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    On 2024-04-10 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    Thunderbird is probably the most complete one, followed by Evolution and
    Kmail.

    Yikes, I found both Thunderbird and Evolution excruciatingly
    bloated and over-complicated, so I'd better stay well away from
    "Kmail". Those do both attempt accurate HTML rendering though,
    unlike clients I prefer such as Sylpheed and Alpine that roughly
    (but often very servicably) render HTML as plain text. That
    contributes a fair bit to their complexity, but hardly excuses how
    unfriendly they can be to configure, or to fix when they break.


    Yeah, I don't like TB's swiss army knife stuff now that I got a new
    newsreader and task manager.
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Lew Pitcher on Thu Apr 11 16:00:08 2024
    Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote at 15:37 this Thursday (GMT):
    On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:40:12 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:

    Yrrah <Yrrah-aolu@aolu.invalid> wrote at 13:12 this Thursday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Sylpheed (https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/)

    This is perfect! Thanks!

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/features.php


    Yrrah


    Had trouble getting it to connect to gmail when I tried. Of course, I'm
    having some server issues with sylpheed, but most of my accs work..

    I never tried /direct/ access to gmail through sylpheed. I run my own (internal) email server (an instance of sendmail), and use fetchmail (http://fetchmail.berlios.de) to pull down mail routed to my gmail account.



    I have like 4 gmail accounts and 2 outlook accts, I don't want to deal
    with the spagetti there.
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  • From Lew Pitcher@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 11 15:37:31 2024
    On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:40:12 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:

    Yrrah <Yrrah-aolu@aolu.invalid> wrote at 13:12 this Thursday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Sylpheed (https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/)

    This is perfect! Thanks!

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/features.php


    Yrrah


    Had trouble getting it to connect to gmail when I tried. Of course, I'm having some server issues with sylpheed, but most of my accs work..

    I never tried /direct/ access to gmail through sylpheed. I run my own (internal) email server (an instance of sendmail), and use fetchmail (http://fetchmail.berlios.de) to pull down mail routed to my gmail account.


    --
    Lew Pitcher
    "In Skills We Trust"

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to John McCue on Thu Apr 11 17:22:34 2024
    On 11/04/2024 13:07, John McCue wrote:
    LucLan <address@is.invalid> wrote:
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote: >>> Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    I use mutt. Simple and it does the job.

    The OP also wants a notification also :)
    I use tbird. It announces mail with a sound I ripped off a MMPORPG, for 'teleportation'



    --
    Of what good are dead warriors? … Warriors are those who desire battle
    more than peace. Those who seek battle despite peace. Those who thump
    their spears on the ground and talk of honor. Those who leap high the
    battle dance and dream of glory … The good of dead warriors, Mother, is
    that they are dead.
    Sheri S Tepper: The Awakeners.

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  • From Yrrah@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 11 20:16:18 2024
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    Had trouble getting it to connect to gmail when I tried. Of course, I'm having some server issues with sylpheed, but most of my accs work..

    It's complicated, but that's data thief Google's fault.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Oauth2

    BTW, I don't use GMail (fortunately), so I can't try it.

    Yrrah

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Yrrah on Fri Apr 12 00:40:01 2024
    Yrrah <Yrrah-aolu@aolu.invalid> wrote at 18:16 this Thursday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    Had trouble getting it to connect to gmail when I tried. Of course, I'm
    having some server issues with sylpheed, but most of my accs work..

    It's complicated, but that's data thief Google's fault.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Oauth2

    BTW, I don't use GMail (fortunately), so I can't try it.

    Yrrah



    mm
    What's weird is that two of my accounts are working, but the others
    just aren't..
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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 12 04:53:02 2024
    On 2024-04-12 02:40, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Yrrah <Yrrah-aolu@aolu.invalid> wrote at 18:16 this Thursday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    Had trouble getting it to connect to gmail when I tried. Of course, I'm
    having some server issues with sylpheed, but most of my accs work..

    It's complicated, but that's data thief Google's fault.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Oauth2

    BTW, I don't use GMail (fortunately), so I can't try it.

    Yrrah



    mm
    What's weird is that two of my accounts are working, but the others
    just aren't..

    Normal gmail needs Oauth2.

    Gmail for enterprises or groups may or many not require it: it is up to
    the administrators to decide.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Fri Apr 12 05:30:02 2024
    Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote at 02:53 this Friday (GMT):
    On 2024-04-12 02:40, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Yrrah <Yrrah-aolu@aolu.invalid> wrote at 18:16 this Thursday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    Had trouble getting it to connect to gmail when I tried. Of course, I'm >>>> having some server issues with sylpheed, but most of my accs work..

    It's complicated, but that's data thief Google's fault.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Oauth2

    BTW, I don't use GMail (fortunately), so I can't try it.

    Yrrah



    mm
    What's weird is that two of my accounts are working, but the others
    just aren't..

    Normal gmail needs Oauth2.

    Gmail for enterprises or groups may or many not require it: it is up to
    the administrators to decide.


    They shouldn't be enterprise accts tho.. and it's erroring with
    incorrect auth despite me putting it in correctly.
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  • From Simon@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Fri Apr 12 06:42:06 2024
    On 2024-04-10, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
    Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    On 2024-04-10 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    Thunderbird is probably the most complete one, followed by Evolution and
    Kmail.

    Yikes, I found both Thunderbird and Evolution excruciatingly
    bloated and over-complicated, so I'd better stay well away from
    "Kmail". Those do both attempt accurate HTML rendering though,
    unlike clients I prefer such as Sylpheed and Alpine that roughly
    (but often very servicably) render HTML as plain text. That
    contributes a fair bit to their complexity, but hardly excuses how
    unfriendly they can be to configure, or to fix when they break.

    claws-mail with the fancy-html plugin does a good job for html emails. Otherwise it is light and reliable.

    --
    Simon

    RLU: 222126

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 12 12:56:51 2024
    On 2024-04-12 07:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote at 02:53 this Friday (GMT):
    On 2024-04-12 02:40, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Yrrah <Yrrah-aolu@aolu.invalid> wrote at 18:16 this Thursday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    Had trouble getting it to connect to gmail when I tried. Of course, I'm >>>>> having some server issues with sylpheed, but most of my accs work..

    It's complicated, but that's data thief Google's fault.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Oauth2

    BTW, I don't use GMail (fortunately), so I can't try it.

    Yrrah



    mm
    What's weird is that two of my accounts are working, but the others
    just aren't..

    Normal gmail needs Oauth2.

    Gmail for enterprises or groups may or many not require it: it is up to
    the administrators to decide.


    They shouldn't be enterprise accts tho.. and it's erroring with
    incorrect auth despite me putting it in correctly.

    Computers do not make mistakes.

    Check the log.

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Bud Frede@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Fri Apr 12 09:55:51 2024
    not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

    Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    On 2024-04-10 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    Thunderbird is probably the most complete one, followed by Evolution and
    Kmail.

    Yikes, I found both Thunderbird and Evolution excruciatingly
    bloated and over-complicated, so I'd better stay well away from
    "Kmail". Those do both attempt accurate HTML rendering though,
    unlike clients I prefer such as Sylpheed and Alpine that roughly
    (but often very servicably) render HTML as plain text. That
    contributes a fair bit to their complexity, but hardly excuses how
    unfriendly they can be to configure, or to fix when they break.

    I've used so many e-mail clients over the years I'm sure I don't
    remember all of them.

    I had started using Eudora at work because I wanted to start using IMAP
    and it supported that. Then I switched to Mulberry. I really liked that
    because it was truly cross-platform and it did IMAP better than Eudora
    did.

    Then when Thunderbird first came out it seemed like a reasonable
    choice. It was also cross-platform and worked pretty well. I got used to
    it and have been using it ever since.

    I also used mutt for a long time, but finally just used Thunderbird
    everywhere.

    I've tried both Sylpheed and Claws and thought they were pretty good,
    but I'm familiar with Thunderbird and probably won't move from it
    without a really good reason.

    I do most of my important communication in Signal these days
    anyway. E-mail is kind of a legacy thing in some ways. I suppose Usenet
    is too, but I find that I enjoy Usenet more than e-mail. :-)

    I guess if Thunderbird went away, I'd take another look at Sylpheed and
    Claws.

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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to John McCue on Sat Apr 13 10:35:24 2024
    On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:07:05 -0000 (UTC)
    John McCue <jmccue@neutron.jmcunx.com> wrote:

    LucLan <address@is.invalid> wrote:
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    I use mutt. Simple and it does the job.

    The OP also wants a notification also :)

    I also use mutt, for notifications you can try wmbiff or
    gkrellm. But this depends on your X environment. I use
    Window Managers as opposed to Desktop Environments, so
    wmbiff/gkrellm works fine. I do not know how wmbiff will
    work with KDE/GNOME and friends. Gkrellm works fine on
    any D/E.

    I use WMbiff, and I don't think it would work well with Desktop
    Environment and Window Managers that don't support dockapps. It works
    great, but I'm sure there already exist some project or program which
    can run in the background and emit a notification. I can't think of
    one because I never looked beyond wmbiff but I suspect one exists it
    wouldn't be too hard to make a basic one.

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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Sat Apr 13 10:38:21 2024
    On 11 Apr 2024 07:55:03 +1000
    not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:

    Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    On 2024-04-10 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
    I have looked at have had problems.

    Thunderbird is probably the most complete one, followed by Evolution and Kmail.

    Yikes, I found both Thunderbird and Evolution excruciatingly
    bloated and over-complicated, so I'd better stay well away from
    "Kmail". Those do both attempt accurate HTML rendering though,
    unlike clients I prefer such as Sylpheed and Alpine that roughly
    (but often very servicably) render HTML as plain text. That
    contributes a fair bit to their complexity, but hardly excuses how
    unfriendly they can be to configure, or to fix when they break.

    I used Thunderbird for a long time, and it was fine. I moved to Claws
    Mail when Thunderbird stuffed up their PGP support. I used to use
    Enigmail, but Thunderbird incorporated it into their product, and did
    it in a way where it would not use your keyring, you had to import
    your keys into Thunderbird. That was the end of that for me.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Sat Apr 13 22:27:50 2024
    On 2024-04-12 15:10, Kyonshi wrote:
    On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:40:12 -0000 (UTC)
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
    wrote:

    Yrrah <Yrrah-aolu@aolu.invalid> wrote at 13:12 this Thursday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Sylpheed (https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/)

    This is perfect! Thanks!

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/features.php


    Yrrah


    Had trouble getting it to connect to gmail when I tried. Of course,
    I'm having some server issues with sylpheed, but most of my accs
    work..

    I managed to get gmail to work with an app password (which google seems
    to have intentionally hidden). Not very secure though.

    It is not hidden at all. Many of us are using them.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Borax Man on Sat Apr 13 22:30:02 2024
    On 2024-04-13 02:38, Borax Man wrote:
    On 11 Apr 2024 07:55:03 +1000
    not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:

    Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    On 2024-04-10 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
    I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
    mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones >>>> I have looked at have had problems.

    Thunderbird is probably the most complete one, followed by Evolution and >>> Kmail.

    Yikes, I found both Thunderbird and Evolution excruciatingly
    bloated and over-complicated, so I'd better stay well away from
    "Kmail". Those do both attempt accurate HTML rendering though,
    unlike clients I prefer such as Sylpheed and Alpine that roughly
    (but often very servicably) render HTML as plain text. That
    contributes a fair bit to their complexity, but hardly excuses how
    unfriendly they can be to configure, or to fix when they break.

    I used Thunderbird for a long time, and it was fine. I moved to Claws
    Mail when Thunderbird stuffed up their PGP support. I used to use
    Enigmail, but Thunderbird incorporated it into their product, and did
    it in a way where it would not use your keyring, you had to import
    your keys into Thunderbird. That was the end of that for me.

    They did not incorporate Enigmail, that would have been wonderful.
    Instead they did their own limited implementation.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Sun Apr 14 09:58:24 2024
    On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:30:02 +0200
    "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

    On 2024-04-13 02:38, Borax Man wrote:
    On 11 Apr 2024 07:55:03 +1000
    not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:

    Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    [...]
    [...]
    [...]

    Yikes, I found both Thunderbird and Evolution excruciatingly
    bloated and over-complicated, so I'd better stay well away from
    "Kmail". Those do both attempt accurate HTML rendering though,
    unlike clients I prefer such as Sylpheed and Alpine that roughly
    (but often very servicably) render HTML as plain text. That
    contributes a fair bit to their complexity, but hardly excuses how
    unfriendly they can be to configure, or to fix when they break.

    I used Thunderbird for a long time, and it was fine. I moved to Claws
    Mail when Thunderbird stuffed up their PGP support. I used to use Enigmail, but Thunderbird incorporated it into their product, and did
    it in a way where it would not use your keyring, you had to import
    your keys into Thunderbird. That was the end of that for me.

    They did not incorporate Enigmail, that would have been wonderful.
    Instead they did their own limited implementation.


    Thats right, I think enigmail stopped being supported. Had enigmail
    continued to work, I would still be using Thunderbird today.

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Borax Man on Sat Apr 13 20:19:20 2024
    On 4/13/24 18:58, Borax Man wrote:
    Thats right, I think enigmail stopped being supported. Had enigmail continued to work, I would still be using Thunderbird today.

    Check contemporary Thunderbird.

    I believe Enigmail support was discontinued because it was promoted to
    being natively included in Thunderbird. Or at least contemporary
    Thunderbird has had Enigmail like functionality for a few years now.



    --
    Grant. . . .

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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Sun Apr 14 11:32:15 2024
    On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:19:20 -0500
    Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

    On 4/13/24 18:58, Borax Man wrote:
    Thats right, I think enigmail stopped being supported. Had enigmail continued to work, I would still be using Thunderbird today.

    Check contemporary Thunderbird.

    I believe Enigmail support was discontinued because it was promoted to
    being natively included in Thunderbird. Or at least contemporary
    Thunderbird has had Enigmail like functionality for a few years now.



    I looked up what happened, Thunderbird did indeed implement its own functionality, and this was to replace Enigmail.

    I'm quite happy with Claws Mail and Mutt, and having briefly seen
    Thunderbird as it is now, I think I'll stay as I prefer the simpler
    Claws Mail interface. Also, I learned that I should stick to software
    which is less opinionated, which doesn't have big visions, grand
    strategies and the like. This way its less likely to just change
    things on me, or decide for me how I should interact. I don't want to
    build my digital world on ever shifting sands so I prefer to stick to
    smaller, simpler software where there is less of a focus on
    innovation.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Mon Apr 15 04:25:44 2024
    On 2024-04-14 03:19, Grant Taylor wrote:
    On 4/13/24 18:58, Borax Man wrote:
    Thats right, I think enigmail stopped being supported.  Had enigmail
    continued to work, I would still be using Thunderbird today.

    Check contemporary Thunderbird.

    I believe Enigmail support was discontinued because it was promoted to
    being natively included in Thunderbird.

    No.

    I repeat, TB created their own method, from scratch. Different. They did
    not incorporate Enigmail at all.

    Or at least contemporary
    Thunderbird has had Enigmail like functionality for a few years now.

    Not Enigmail like at all.


    And about the same time, Mozilla fired many many people, so features
    were removed.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Mon Apr 15 12:10:41 2024
    On 2024-04-15, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    On 2024-04-14 03:32, Borax Man wrote:
    On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:19:20 -0500
    Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

    On 4/13/24 18:58, Borax Man wrote:
    Thats right, I think enigmail stopped being supported. Had enigmail
    continued to work, I would still be using Thunderbird today.

    Check contemporary Thunderbird.

    I believe Enigmail support was discontinued because it was promoted to
    being natively included in Thunderbird. Or at least contemporary
    Thunderbird has had Enigmail like functionality for a few years now.



    I looked up what happened, Thunderbird did indeed implement its own
    functionality, and this was to replace Enigmail.

    I'm quite happy with Claws Mail and Mutt, and having briefly seen
    Thunderbird as it is now, I think I'll stay as I prefer the simpler
    Claws Mail interface. Also, I learned that I should stick to software
    which is less opinionated, which doesn't have big visions, grand
    strategies and the like. This way its less likely to just change
    things on me, or decide for me how I should interact. I don't want to
    build my digital world on ever shifting sands so I prefer to stick to
    smaller, simpler software where there is less of a focus on
    innovation.

    IMO, every open source project is subject to big changes when the
    developers "are replaced" or simply tire out and take new people. The
    new people prefer to do new things in their own way instead of learning
    the ropes and maintain old things.


    True, but for some key software I've been able to keep some
    consistency. ZSH, FVWM, PCManFM, Window Maker dockapps, mutt, Emacs,
    Vim, slrn, the GNU utilities, they haven't changed.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Borax Man on Mon Apr 15 13:18:43 2024
    On 2024-04-14 03:32, Borax Man wrote:
    On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:19:20 -0500
    Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

    On 4/13/24 18:58, Borax Man wrote:
    Thats right, I think enigmail stopped being supported. Had enigmail
    continued to work, I would still be using Thunderbird today.

    Check contemporary Thunderbird.

    I believe Enigmail support was discontinued because it was promoted to
    being natively included in Thunderbird. Or at least contemporary
    Thunderbird has had Enigmail like functionality for a few years now.



    I looked up what happened, Thunderbird did indeed implement its own functionality, and this was to replace Enigmail.

    I'm quite happy with Claws Mail and Mutt, and having briefly seen
    Thunderbird as it is now, I think I'll stay as I prefer the simpler
    Claws Mail interface. Also, I learned that I should stick to software
    which is less opinionated, which doesn't have big visions, grand
    strategies and the like. This way its less likely to just change
    things on me, or decide for me how I should interact. I don't want to
    build my digital world on ever shifting sands so I prefer to stick to smaller, simpler software where there is less of a focus on
    innovation.

    IMO, every open source project is subject to big changes when the
    developers "are replaced" or simply tire out and take new people. The
    new people prefer to do new things in their own way instead of learning
    the ropes and maintain old things.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Borax Man on Mon Apr 15 14:24:26 2024
    On 2024-04-15 14:10, Borax Man wrote:
    On 2024-04-15, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    On 2024-04-14 03:32, Borax Man wrote:
    On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:19:20 -0500
    Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

    On 4/13/24 18:58, Borax Man wrote:
    Thats right, I think enigmail stopped being supported. Had enigmail >>>>> continued to work, I would still be using Thunderbird today.

    Check contemporary Thunderbird.

    I believe Enigmail support was discontinued because it was promoted to >>>> being natively included in Thunderbird. Or at least contemporary
    Thunderbird has had Enigmail like functionality for a few years now.



    I looked up what happened, Thunderbird did indeed implement its own
    functionality, and this was to replace Enigmail.

    I'm quite happy with Claws Mail and Mutt, and having briefly seen
    Thunderbird as it is now, I think I'll stay as I prefer the simpler
    Claws Mail interface. Also, I learned that I should stick to software
    which is less opinionated, which doesn't have big visions, grand
    strategies and the like. This way its less likely to just change
    things on me, or decide for me how I should interact. I don't want to
    build my digital world on ever shifting sands so I prefer to stick to
    smaller, simpler software where there is less of a focus on
    innovation.

    IMO, every open source project is subject to big changes when the
    developers "are replaced" or simply tire out and take new people. The
    new people prefer to do new things in their own way instead of learning
    the ropes and maintain old things.


    True, but for some key software I've been able to keep some
    consistency. ZSH, FVWM, PCManFM, Window Maker dockapps, mutt, Emacs,
    Vim, slrn, the GNU utilities, they haven't changed.


    Have Gnome and KDE kept consistency? :-D

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Mon Apr 15 15:50:10 2024
    Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote at 13:10 this Friday (GMT):
    On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:40:12 -0000 (UTC)
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
    wrote:

    Yrrah <Yrrah-aolu@aolu.invalid> wrote at 13:12 this Thursday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>:

    I'm happy with Sylpheed (https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/)

    This is perfect! Thanks!

    I'm happy with Claws Mail, which was originally a Sylpheed fork.

    https://www.claws-mail.org/features.php


    Yrrah


    Had trouble getting it to connect to gmail when I tried. Of course,
    I'm having some server issues with sylpheed, but most of my accs
    work..

    I managed to get gmail to work with an app password (which google seems
    to have intentionally hidden). Not very secure though.


    Yeah, but that's only if you use 2FA.
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From David W. Hodgins@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Mon Apr 15 14:07:41 2024
    On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:25:44 -0400, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

    On 2024-04-14 03:19, Grant Taylor wrote:
    On 4/13/24 18:58, Borax Man wrote:
    Thats right, I think enigmail stopped being supported. Had enigmail
    continued to work, I would still be using Thunderbird today.

    Check contemporary Thunderbird.

    I believe Enigmail support was discontinued because it was promoted to
    being natively included in Thunderbird.

    No.

    I repeat, TB created their own method, from scratch. Different. They did
    not incorporate Enigmail at all.

    TB did not create their own method. It uses openpgp. The encryption aspect is the same as pgp. The keys are handled by a subset of what pgp uses.

    A pgp generated key can be used in openpgp.

    The difference is that openpgp does not use the chain of trust that pgp uses.

    The other thing I don't like about it is that thunderbird asks for the pass phrase
    when it starts. It does not require the pass phrase to be re-entered to sign
    or dycrypt messages, meaning that an unattended system can be used by anyone with
    access to send signed email messages or read stored messages.

    Or at least contemporary
    Thunderbird has had Enigmail like functionality for a few years now.

    Not Enigmail like at all.


    And about the same time, Mozilla fired many many people, so features
    were removed.

    That's not why they made the switch. The switch was made to simplify usage
    for users who did not know how to generate a key or how to manage the chain
    of trust for keys that pgp uses.

    The goal was to increase the use of encryption in email at the cost of reduced security in key management.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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