Re: reaching gmail in basic html?

shellworld?
I have no idea, as I have not needed to look.
How does mutt manage the need for a browser, to follow e-mail links for 
example?



On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Has that shell service got mutt available?  Reason I ask is mutt can be
> used to read and reply to gmail once set up correctly and there's lots
> of support for setting it up with gmail on the internet.
>
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 12:02:47
>> From: Karen Lewellen <[email protected]>
>> To: Mouse <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] reaching gmail in basic html?
>>
>> 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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