#Em client gmail imap error install#
#Em client gmail imap error windows#

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This is a solution that I found and I am sharing because maybe it will help others. I am not an expert in this field and I cannot guarantee that this workaround is secure for your computer or your email. While adding your email account choose your normal imap settings for incoming emails but on the right column for smtp settings just input localhost and no usernames or passwords and it should work. Now you have an smtp server running in your computer. Restart the postfix sudo systemctl restart postfix.Inet_interfaces = loopback-only to restrict access to your computer internal network only. Go to /etc/postfix/main.cf and change inet_interfaces = all to.In the configuration select Internet site.

#Em client gmail imap error install#

Install postfix by running sudo apt install mailutils.

Install and run an smtp server in your local computer to “trick” mailspring to connect to a “fake” smtp server. I found a workaround for this and I am intoducing it below: That’s why using it as read-only is more than enough. I am usually sending an email once per 2-3 months so it’s fine if I do it from the website. For me sending emails from the university account doesn’t really matter because I can still do it through the website if needed. Which means the only way to access the email now is through the crappy outdated outlook website. My university was under cyber attacked a year ago, which made them restrict access to the smtp server to only vpn users, where at the same time they removed all student access to the vpn network. I also have the same problem where I need a read-only email account to be set. That would make it awesome for all my email. While somewhat uncommon (public/free providers don’t work in such way, only private/paid ones with specific scenarios.) it is a valid point and it should probably be considered a feature in Mailspring. Only the big, industry standard ones seems to support some sort of “read only” IMAP accounts, although not quite as adding a “read only” account is usually not straightforward and even looks more like a workaround rather than a feature on those clients.

#Em client gmail imap error windows#

Not familiar with Windows but I guess MS Outlook would work too. Claws should also work considering how it is designed. So far the only ones that has been working (but that nags me a lot to the point I turned it off.) are Apple Mail, Thunderbird and the native iOS mail client. That has also been a stepping stone in using email clients since every client will try/force to SMTP auth and others even won’t add/work with a read only account. While effective, that’s a horribly handicapped solution IMHO. They did so in an attempt to block spam abuse in only letting their own webmail client authenticate and send emails. My university IT department decided, instead of improving availability of our email service, to block every and all SMTP auth attempts that do not come from localhost (on their end.).

Well, I have an specific use case where that would fit.