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Ask Soylent: FossaMail Replacement?

posted by martyb on Sunday April 23 2017, @07:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the What-do-YOU-use? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

FossaMail ( https://www.fossamail.org/ ) announced that they will be shutting down next month, and I must search for a replacement email program again. So far, my research for replacements found Claws Mail, and Slypheed, but are there any other stand alone email programs that are being updated? One other requirement is PGP support for encrypted messages.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 23 2017, @10:38AM (8 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday April 23 2017, @10:38AM (#498264) Homepage Journal

    I'm currently digging on claws-mail and can't find any significant faults with it for what I desire out of an email program. But then I only bother with pop3 and smtp and don't ask my email program to be an integrated part of an office suite. How you use and what you expect from email will cause what you need to vary quite a lot.

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  • (Score: 1) by Deeo Kain on Sunday April 23 2017, @10:49AM (6 children)

    by Deeo Kain (5848) on Sunday April 23 2017, @10:49AM (#498269)

    But then I only bother with pop3

    You *dinosaur*!

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 23 2017, @11:41AM (5 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday April 23 2017, @11:41AM (#498283) Homepage Journal

      S'what they tell me but I just don't want the mail server thinking it's anything but a dumb relay. Processing should happen in clients.

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      • (Score: 1) by Deeo Kain on Sunday April 23 2017, @05:42PM (4 children)

        by Deeo Kain (5848) on Sunday April 23 2017, @05:42PM (#498413)

        What makes IMAP an email-processing agent?

        • (Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 23 2017, @07:08PM (3 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday April 23 2017, @07:08PM (#498456) Homepage Journal

          IMAP talks back to the server telling it whether you've read an email and even how you've sorted it and the server then reflects this to any other mail client you attempt to pull mail with. POP just gives you your mail. I've no interest in letting my mail host have a bunch of meta-data on me beyond what it needs to deliver my email.

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          • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday April 24 2017, @08:32AM (1 child)

            by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Monday April 24 2017, @08:32AM (#498712) Homepage Journal

            We could always install a POP2 server so you can really get your retro on, or maybe the original post office porotocol 1 if we can find a reference implementation of it :)

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          • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday April 24 2017, @03:24PM

            by urza9814 (3954) on Monday April 24 2017, @03:24PM (#498884) Journal

            IMAP talks back to the server telling it whether you've read an email and even how you've sorted it and the server then reflects this to any other mail client you attempt to pull mail with. POP just gives you your mail. I've no interest in letting my mail host have a bunch of meta-data on me beyond what it needs to deliver my email.

            This is why I use POP to pull it to my local mail server but then IMAP to sync that with my devices. I like the 'unread mail' indicator to actually mean something... :)

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday April 23 2017, @01:01PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday April 23 2017, @01:01PM (#498307) Journal

    I'm using claws-mail exclusively to read my RSS feeds. So far, mostly good.

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