Re: Will icecat and or iceweasel and or iceape and or icedove be packaged for Ubuntu Linux

[Hund]

On April 5, 2021 7:03:21 PM GMT+02:00, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 16:25, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just out of interest, whilst the thread has well and truly lost its
>> way and completely digressed from the original question, on the alpine
>> mailing list, some people refer to using alpine for downloading their
>> email from gmail, which is possibly a path that you could have taken,
>> free of charge, to save your goggle email account contents, without
>> having had to pay the google borg.
>
>Any Internet email program can do that. Gmail offers both POP3 and
>IMAP. I personally use Thunderbird to keep a local archive of my
>Gmail, just in case something happens.
>
>I don't generally use it to read or answer my email, because I'm very
>used to the Gmail web interface now and it works well.
>
>I do use T'bird for my work email, after conducting a comprehensive
>survey of FOSS email clients for Linux over several months, trying
>about a dozen programs. T'bird offers the richest functionality,
>pretty much the best UI, and has a couple of big wins:
>• because it's multithreaded, I can write email while it's downloading
>or sending (not possible in Claws or Sylpheed).
>• it talks to pretty much anything, including MS Exchange, including
>address book and calendar support. (The only other app I could find
>that could do this was Evolution.)
>• it's cross-platform, so I can use the same app on macOS and Linux
>(which is not possible with Evolution).
>
>I could indeed have downloaded, say, all my old archive folders and
>kept them locally, but there are 2 big snags:
>• then they're vulnerable to a crash or disk failure
>• I can't readily search the offline stuff
>
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Notmuch is a very popular email indexer that lets you read and search your local messages. To sync messages from and to the server, I would recommend Mbsync.

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Hund