Jules Jones

My primary email client is Turnpike, and has been since I bought my first internet connection 17 years ago. Unfortunately Demon stopped developing it a long time ago, and amongst other things it now effectively requires stunnel as an add-on to allow it to send mail in this cold, hard world of secure login. It is still a superb email client for collecting and reading mail off-line, but with the advent of the Win 8.1 box it's time to give in and use a current email client. Threads in demon.internet.support.turnpike suggest that it *is* possible to install Turnpike on at least the 32-bit version, but as it would involve a lot of fiddling, plus use of stunnel, I'm moving to Thunderbird. That means moving my mailspool, oh joy. I want to go with imap, although exporting in Berkeley mailbox format and importing into Thunderbird is also an option.

I've spent the last two days reading threads in d.i.s.t, discovering that I was still on v3.something of Thunderbird on the XP box and upgrading, and fighting with settings. I've finally got Thunderbird to talk to Turnpike's imap server, even if it is only looking in the inbox and not the other folders at the moment.


Turnpike:
make sure the user has a non-blank password, or the account won't be able to login to the imap server from elsewhere (security feature in Turnpike).
Configure
Options
Login tab
tick "login using password", and under "permissions", scroll to the bottom and tick "access mail using pop3/imap server" to enable imap access for this user account -- which is the bit I overlooked first time round, resulting in much head-desking.
You can check the exact user name on the "user" tab - you'll need it for setting up the Thunderbird account



Turnpike Connect:
Configure
Email transfer...
Tickbox down the bottom of the screen under Mail Servers "enable imap"

Need to have Connect running in deliver mode (i.e. make a connection to the internet) or the imap server will refuse connections.


Thunderbird:
Set up an account on the XP box using the settings Wm helpfully posted here:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/demon.ip.support.turnpike/So7sW_G5rC0/EXc46oJLDXUJ
i.e.

In TB the Server Settings for the account to access TP via IMAP (a
*separate* a/c to any real e-mail address, I used Wm@localhost) should
be something like

===
server name: localhost
port: 143
username: [whatever username you use to log in to TP]
connection security: none
authentication method: passwd, trans insec

And set appropriate synchronisation options -- in my case I want a copy at each end.

Once I've got all the email copied into Thunderbird, the TB copy of the mailspool gets copied over to the Win8 box as part of the general "copy all files".


Useful links:

Wm's collection of useful Thunderbird add-ons
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/collections/Wm/turnpike/
Wm's post in dist with settings:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/demon.ip.support.turnpike/So7sW_G5rC0/EXc46oJLDXUJ
dist on folders:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/demon.ip.support.turnpike/SrmtShEE0E8/F4OqVAjSivcJ
dist on permissions when installing on Win8
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/demon.ip.support.turnpike/WgMSrD59iQM
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/demon.ip.support.turnpike/SrmtShEE0E8/F4OqVAjSivcJ