On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 04:47:50 +0000 "Blair, Charles E III" <c-bl...@illinois.edu> wrote:
> I am using debian 7.11, which includes version > 3.8.1 of claws-mail. I have recently been having > problems with this, and have been advised that I > need to upgrade to 3.11.1. It didn't seem possible > to do this with aptitude, and I am hoping there is > some other painless way. You're SOL: Claws 3.11 isn't available for Wheezy. At least, not that I've been able to find. A couple years ago, I too started having problems with Claws. I could receive but couldn't send or reply. Later, I was unable to connect to my email providers at all. They had slowly changed their security protocols which Claws couldn't handle. I upgraded to 3.10 from Wheezy-Backports, but that didn't help. Had to be at least 3.11 which worked fine on my Jessie install running in VirtualBox. Even looked into compiling 3.11 from source. No go. Dependencies. Wheezy libraries and such were too old. And the newer libraries were not available for Wheezy. Some had systemd dependencies as well. Compile them? Nope. Dependencies were the killer. Even thought of adding the Jessie repos to get the libraries, but that wouldn't work. I'd have to upgrade too much of Wheezy, if it would work at all. And I was fearful of trashing my system. So, I switched to Sylpheed. Not as good as Claws, but it worked. Now, it's starting to have problems: Can't send attachments. The easiest solution if you want to use Claws is to upgrade to a newer version of Debian. Sorry. B