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Messaging

Mail that stayson the machine

Thunderbird, on a Void Linux desktop of your own.Accounts, calendars and local folders, kept on the volume between runs.

Thunderbird 140.8.12 cores · 4 GBOpens in a browser tab
hub://thunderbird

$ dxflow workflow create --identity thunderbird hub://thunderbird --start --link

01Pick a machinecores, memory and a rate per hour
02Create the workflowpulled from the hub, once
03Run it, then stopstopped when the work is done
The application

A mail client,not a web page

IMAP, POP and SMTP with the folders written to disk where you can read them.

Local folders

Archive a mailbox onto the volume and search it without the server.

OpenPGP built in

Keys, signing and end-to-end encryption without an add-on to install.

Calendar and feeds

CalDAV calendars and RSS in the same window as the mail.

How you run it

Every defaultis one override away

The session reads its settings from the environment, so you set them on the start line.

VNC_PASSWORDWhat the tab asks for. It ships as dxflow, and everyone reading this knows that, which matters more here than most places.
PANEL and TASKBARBoth hidden, so the client has the whole screen. Show either one when the compose windows pile up.
AUDIOOff here. Turn it on if you want the new-mail sound with the picture.
start it your way

$ dxflow workflow start thunderbird --override env.app.VNC_PASSWORD=something-long

$ dxflow workflow start thunderbird --override env.app.PANEL=show --link

The session

The clientfills the screen

Streamed to your browser, with Thunderbird already maximized.

6082Browserin the tab, at /vnc.html
5901VNCin a native client
/volumeStorageyour files, kept between runs
Open it from anywhereStart with --link and the session comes back on an HTTPS address.
Set a password firstVNC_PASSWORD defaults to dxflow, and everyone can read this page.
Good to know

The profile liveson the volume

Accounts, local folders, keys and settings are all in one directory, and that directory persists.

It comes back signed in

The profile carries the accounts and whatever was downloaded. A restart resumes rather than reconfigures.

The ESR line

Void ships the conservative release. Features arrive here later than upstream, and so do the surprises.

Mail at rest, on a disk you own

Local folders and OpenPGP keys sit on the volume unencrypted. Protect the session accordingly.

The image

Pulled once,then it stays

Thunderbird arrives as one image. This is what comes down the first time, and what the disk should have free for it.

399Mamd64compressed, the way the registry counts it
394Marm64compressed, the way the registry counts it
20GOn diskunpacked, with room to work beside it
ghcr.io/dxflow-ai/thunderbird:latestPublished from the hub, pulled on the first start and kept for the ones after it.
Either architectureamd64 and arm64 are both published, and the machine pulls the one it runs.
What it asks for

What it wants,and what it needs

The definition asks for 2 cores and 4 GB. The image comes up on less than that, and a start given --fit trims the ask to whatever the machine actually has.

2 cores · 4 GBAsks forwhat the definition writes down
2 cores · 2 GBRuns onthe least the image comes up on
Not neededGPUit works on the cores alone
The ask is not the floorThe definition writes down what suits the work. The image itself starts on less, which is what the second figure is.
--fit caps it to the hostA start given --fit trims each step to what the machine actually has, for that start alone. The definition is never rewritten.

Machines that fit it

Thunderbird asks for 2 cores and 4 GB. Cheapest first.

E2 Medium
$0.042/ hour2 cores · 4 GBStart this machine
T3 Medium
$0.052/ hour2 cores · 4 GBStart this machine
B2s
$0.052/ hour2 cores · 4 GBStart this machine
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