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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: 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... :)