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


From: Karen Lewellen
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] reaching gmail in basic html?
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 12:02:47 -0500 (EST)

The Thunderbird story is interesting because prior to now I could use elinks and links, which both can incorporate JavaScript to reach my research gmail account. They no longer allow it though because google claims it is not the right kind of JavaScript. Generally speaking I too would love learning how this is done. Presently although I use DOS, the only internet access I have comes from using a dos ssh telnet client to a shell service. Nothing from my desktop.
so  please share more details all the way around.



On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Mouse wrote:

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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