Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-02-06 Thread mick crane
On 2022-01-05 19:52, Dan Ritter wrote: As previously mentioned, the mechanism for that is now "set up dovecot or another IMAP server". the dovecot wiki is very good. https://wiki2.dovecot.org/TestInstallation mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-02-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 1/5/22 12:33, John Conover wrote: pa...@quillandmouse.com writes: On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:58:09 -0500 Celejar wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 "Paul M. Foster" wrote: ... Thanks for the info. Mozilla Foundation is seriously annoying me lately. Can anyone recommend another MUA

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-08 Thread Bob Crochelt
John, thanks for this. Seems to work here as well Bob C. On Fri, Jan 7, 2022, at 22:37, John Crawley wrote: > On 06/01/2022 03:26, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 > > "Paul M. Foster" wrote: > > > >> Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is >

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-07 Thread John Crawley
On 06/01/2022 03:26, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 "Paul M. Foster" wrote: Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is relatively easy to configure? Claws-mail and mutt for two. Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-06 Thread paulf
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:26:23 + Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:19:27 + > "Jeremy Nicoll" wrote: > > Hello Jeremy, > > >but other servers that use OAuth2 - notably Microsoft ones - > >regularly revoke users' access tokens and the users currently have > >to set those > > Not

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:19:27 + "Jeremy Nicoll" wrote: Hello Jeremy, >but other servers that use OAuth2 - notably Microsoft ones - regularly >revoke users' access tokens and the users currently have to set those Not using oauth myself, I'd failed to do more than simply glance at some of

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, at 05:31, Brad Rogers wrote: > Many CM users are successfully collecting mail from google using > oauth2. In the last couple of days there's been a flurry of discussion on the CM Developers' mail list about some problems with OAuth2 though. My impression, not knowing the

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-06 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:40:10 + Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 Jan 2022 at 11:26, Charles Curley wrote: > > Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use > > dovecot to set up a local imap server. > > dovecot is also quite useful for letting those MUAs that do not

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-06 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 09:26:16 +0100 didier gaumet wrote: > > > Le mercredi 05 janvier 2022 à 11:58 -0500, Celejar a écrit : > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 > > "Paul M. Foster" wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > Thanks for the info. Mozilla Foundation is seriously annoying me > > > lately. >

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-06 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 5 Jan 2022 at 11:26, Charles Curley wrote: > Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use > dovecot to set up a local imap server. dovecot is also quite useful for letting those MUAs that do not support oauth2 access services which require it. -- Eric S Fraga

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-06 Thread didier . gaumet
Le jeudi 06 janvier 2022 à 09:40 +0100, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] > For CLI/TUI MUAs, > I think they are all genuine MUAs, designed to cope with /var/mail > Mbox > mailboxes Correction, they are almost all designed to cope with Mbox, but for example mh/nmh/mmh are not (MH mailboxes)

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-06 Thread didier gaumet
Le mercredi 05 janvier 2022 à 09:44 -0500, Paul M. Foster a écrit : > > Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is > relatively easy to configure? > > Paul Hello Paul, For GUI MUAs, others have suggested Claws-mail (with the mbox plgin, by default Claws only manages MH

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-06 Thread didier gaumet
Le mercredi 05 janvier 2022 à 11:58 -0500, Celejar a écrit : > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 > "Paul M. Foster" wrote: > > ... > > > Thanks for the info. Mozilla Foundation is seriously annoying me > > lately. > > > > Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is > >

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:33:36 -0800 cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: Hello John, >Yea, and claws-mail is not compatible with Gmail's oauth2, which is Many CM users are successfully collecting mail from google using oauth2. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is never

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, January 05, 2022 11:58:09 AM Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 > "Paul M. Foster" wrote: > > Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is > > relatively easy to configure? > > Sylpheed? kmail (for kde prior to 4.8.4, and maybe a few later

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:33:36 -0800 cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: > pa...@quillandmouse.com writes: > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:58:09 -0500 > > Celejar wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 > > > "Paul M. Foster" wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > Thanks for the info.

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread John Conover
pa...@quillandmouse.com writes: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:58:09 -0500 > Celejar wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 > > "Paul M. Foster" wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > Thanks for the info. Mozilla Foundation is seriously annoying me > > > lately. > > > > > > Can anyone recommend

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 13:28:55 -0500 wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:58:09 -0500 > Celejar wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 > > "Paul M. Foster" wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > Thanks for the info. Mozilla Foundation is seriously annoying me > > > lately. > > > > > > Can anyone

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 19:52, Dan Ritter wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 13:35, Paul M. Foster wrote: >> > Folks: >> > >> > I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the >> > latest) 64 bit on Debian 11. I didn't reinstall Thunderbird or upgrade >> >

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 13:35, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > Folks: > > > > I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the > > latest) 64 bit on Debian 11. I didn't reinstall Thunderbird or upgrade > > it... > > I've never used TB so these questions might

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 13:35, Paul M. Foster wrote: > Folks: > > I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the > latest) 64 bit on Debian 11. I didn't reinstall Thunderbird or upgrade > it... I've never used TB so these questions might be crazy ... Is TB able to import a

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 "Paul M. Foster" wrote: > Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is > relatively easy to configure? Claws-mail and mutt for two. Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use dovecot to set up a local imap server. --

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread paulf
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:58:09 -0500 Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 > "Paul M. Foster" wrote: > > ... > > > Thanks for the info. Mozilla Foundation is seriously annoying me > > lately. > > > > Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is > > relatively

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 "Paul M. Foster" wrote: ... > Thanks for the info. Mozilla Foundation is seriously annoying me lately. > > Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is > relatively easy to configure? Sylpheed? Celejar

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 1/5/22 09:05, Richard Hector wrote: On 6/01/22 02:35, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the latest) 64 bit on Debian 11. I didn't reinstall Thunderbird or upgrade it. Before I restarted the machine, I had a Thunderbird email account

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 6/01/22 02:35, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the latest) 64 bit on Debian 11. I didn't reinstall Thunderbird or upgrade it. Before I restarted the machine, I had a Thunderbird email account for local emails, which grabbed email

Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread Paul M. Foster
Folks: I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the latest) 64 bit on Debian 11. I didn't reinstall Thunderbird or upgrade it. Before I restarted the machine, I had a Thunderbird email account for local emails, which grabbed email from my /var/mail/paulf folder. Now that