Re: [Lynx-dev] reaching gmail in basic html?

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> gmail supports POP3 and IMAP access,

My experience is that gmail supports POP and IMAP only if you are using
one of a few blessed clients, all of which are huge crawling GUI
horrors.  Sometimes not even then; for example, back when I was fussing
with mail for work, gmail refused to talk to the Thunderbird that was
installed on my work laptop, claiming its encryption was insufficient
in some (unspecified, as far as I can recall) respect.  So I was forced
onto the HTML interface.  I've been using lynx with the basic HTML view
and it's been working for me, but perhaps I'm just being grandfathered;
I haven't meddled with the settings in quite a while now.

I really wish that job would move their mail to somewhere civilized.

> and it appears there are old versions of Pegasus Mail available, that
> run on MS-DOS and support these with no Windows environment present.

If one of them works, great, but don't be too surprised if gmail isn't
interested in talking to clients that old.  (If it does work, please
mention it here; I'd like to try again if it appears they've relaxed
the stringency of their stance.)

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