Sent: Monday, April 05, 2021 at 3:25 AM
From: "Axel Braun" <docb@opensuse.org>
To: "openSUSE support" <support@lists.opensuse.org>
Subject: Re: Mozilla Thunderbird failing to allow openSUSE newsgroup subscriptions:

Hello PJ,

Am Montag, 5. April 2021, 09:58:43 CEST schrieb pj.world@gmx.com:
> I did provide one for the email and double checked multiple times. Then I
> noticed the following email message from my provider in inbox shortly after
> my initial email. ->

[....]

> The protocols will also be deactivated if you have set up your GMX mailbox
> for use in an email programme before, but you have not used it for a long
> period of time.
>
> To use this function, you must set up the protocols or reactivate them in
> your mailbox settings. You will find step-by-step instructions in the ​GMX
> Help Section.

-> This needs to be done first to get your regular email access back

> Otherwise, we recommend using the GMX App for ​iOS or ​Android.
> This application also offers direct access to your mailbox.

(Which is IMHO a bad idea....)

> I am much more concerned with using Thunderbird for Newsgroups initially
> since I have never done that before.
> I don't want to be off topic here if I am. Is it more secure to just
> continue to login to my email provider through my webbrowser?

If you prefer UI overloaded with advertising and tons of external scripts
running, go ahead.

I doubt that GMX provides access to Newsgroups - at least I could not spot it
on the web frontend.

I used to have a separate News provider - party the network provider has a
news server running

Or do you talk about Mailing lists as 'Newsgroups'? They come as normal mails
into your mailbox.....so just use SMTP and IMAP to fetch mails with
Thunderbird

HTH
Axel