On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 7:25 PM Howard Gibson via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 20:18:14 -0500 > Peter King via talk <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] > > 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. > A long time mentor, no deceased, espoused Claws - - - which itself is a fork of Slypheed. IIRC Sylpheed is sorta 'long in the tooth' (OK it seems its sometimes called Slypheed-Claws - - - sorry).
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