[Users] Claws-mail silent on failure to get mail

[Paul]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 06:45:23 -0600
Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote: 

> I say, partial success, because I am not yet ready to migrate
> entirely to Debian 8.

I call that total success.

> So: Can I shut down claws-mail on both computers, and cut and paste
> the new configuration from the new machine's accountrc into the old
> machine's?

Yes.

> The difference in the two account setups seems to be that the 3.11
> version has set_smtpport=0 and set_imapport=0, the older sets both
> to 1. The manually set ports (465 and 993, respectively) are
> correct.

If that's the only difference then the problem is user configuration
error, but I suspect the real cause is fixed somewhere in the
numerous changes since the 'ancient' 3.8.1 version.

with regards

Paul