On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 4:42 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm running bookworm on a Raspberry Pi 4b. > mike@rpi4b3:~> uname -a > Linux MikesPI 6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.54-1+rpt2 > (2023-10-05) aarch64 GNU/Linux > This install didn't include exim4, postfix or anything supplying sendmail > and fetchmail won't work without an MTA. > I've set up several accounts in claws-mail for email accounts at att.net > and gmail.com but so far haven't got them right to the point that claws-mail > will collect mail from any of those accounts via POP mail. > I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to get claws-mail working, so far > the only suggestions I've gotten from the Raspberry Pi forum is to switch to > thunderbird. > I don't understand how either will handle local email like comes from > cron or other system programs and I depend on several scripts to do daily > checks on the system which cron emails me about on my buster system which has > exim4, fetchmail and mutt installed. Obviously I can install those here too > but suspect if I get this system set up correctly it should perform similarly. > > Any advice appreciated.
I seem to recall IMAP is a better choice than POP when using Claws. Also see the CM wiki, and articles like <https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Using_Claws_Mail_with_Gmail>. Jeff
