Re: [orca-list] Mutt or other eMail Client

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

That stinks!


On Sat, 15 May 2021, Glenn K0LNY wrote:

> But there's no way to download them from the web server, they can only be
> read and replied to and deleted and the like.
> It takes a client to get the messages from the server, and nothing so far is
> getting all the messages.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel panix com>
> To: "Glenn K0LNY" <glennervin cableone net>; <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2021 9:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Mutt or other eMail Client
>
>
> Under that situation I would use zip to compress each email folder then
> download it elsewhere.  The zip and unzip utilities are known to work and
> if you have enough space on the server, copy off what you can store now
> then as time goes on, copy off the rest.  Good idea to copy the zip files
> off from largest to smallest that way everytime you copy off, you'll get
> your disk space storeage down more than if you copied them off from
> smallest to largest or in some random order.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 15 May 2021, Glenn K0LNY wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm a bit desperate here, my ISP is dropping their eMail service, and I
> > have like twenty years of old messages on the server that will be gone in
> > a couple weeks.
> > I created an Outlook account and went into my ISP's web server settings
> > and set it to forward all messages to my new outlook account, but it did
> > not do any old archived messages.
> > I installed Thunderbird and went into advanced options and did the
> > following  steps:
> > ***the best method is hidden in Thunderbird's Config Editor. Head to
> > Thunderbird's Options and go to Advanced > Config Editor, and click the "I
> > Accept
> > the Risk" button when prompted. Search for the
> > mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new setting and double-click it
> > to set it to "True."
> >
> >
> > * So that only went back about a year or so, and it did not seem to work.
> > I know all my old messages are there, because I could spend all day going
> > back and back a hundred at a time.
> > So I was wondering if a text eMail client like Mutt would work, and I've
> > looked on-line and I'm not sure which will work for my Ubuntu 18.X.
> > And I don't know if it works with Orca.
> > Does anyone know if this or another eMail client can get all these
> > messages?
> > I'm thinking a text based client runs cleaner and won't fail to get all
> > the messages, but I'm just grasping for straws now.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Glenn