🛑 STOP: before you give someone less technical advice about computers:
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Oh. I see you muted this thread. No reason to go on now about the effort, how everybody can plug in an Ubuntu USB stick (obtained from the friendly geek in the family) and test drive (and they can "just" do this, I did some focus group testing ...) or even install Ubuntu on their computer with a mouse click.
The only thing they cannot "just" do (AFAICS, I don't know what the Ubuntu installler actually says), is to install Ubuntu besides an already pre-installed Windows. That typically requires some expert surgery.
(And yes, they cannot "just" run their own mail-server, typically, but also they need not buy the service with Google mail).
I am willing to follow this up with details (so, people out there, don't think that is all) not just for a thread muted by the OP.
@glitzersachen @0xabad1dea I mean, if the friendly geek provides the USB stick and some info on getting computer to boot to it (I've been about 50/50 on computers defaulting to HDD as boot option 1 and needing input to do anything else. Creating the stick and possibly booting to it are things that might need more instruction than just "do".
I feel like people who want to see more usage of FOSS could also benefit from rethinking how we approach in providing our "try this"
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@squishymage42 @zorinlynx @0xabad1dea Yeah for sure
​ I self-host a lot of things, but email is just too much of a pain. Big Tech made sure of that.That said, it seems like your host should be providing the header over POP3/IMAP, so I'm curious why that's breaking. Is there an open bug report about it on Thunderbird Mobile?
@Rusty @zorinlynx @0xabad1dea Maybe its not a header but something like a client ID or something. Something used for optional authentication that the server just reads its lack or sending a 0 as highly suspicious.
Just switching to a different open source mobile mail app solved it on my end, but its definitely an example I can think of where I had an "okay, emails sent from my computer go through, emails sent from my phone are not reaching destination" because it piqued problem solving brain
