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

[Liam Proven]

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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