On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 7:25 PM Howard Gibson via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
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.king@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.
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). HTH