On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 20:18:14 -0500 Peter King via talk <talk@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.k...@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. -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca jhowardgib...@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk