Re: reaching gmail in basic html?

I am not personally  keen on running a program that the administrator here 
at shellworld has not configured to work with their environment.
How does using a third party program keep mail history, contact lists, 
sent  mail etc., all from an existing gmail account?
It seems odd that I can use lynx perfectly with my main account, but my 
research one is blocked.



On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> A program called urlscan is used by mutt to do that and it honors the
> BROWSER environment variable setting so if that's lynx urlscan will open
> in lynx.
> The https://wiki.archlinux.org/ page has help on setting mutt up and I
> think urlscan is mentioned in that help or has its own help page.  An
> older program called url-view was used by mutt but urlscan seems to have
> replaced it.  There's a learning curve for mutt, learning what to put in
> your configuration files and to set up macros but a script called
> fleacollar.sh got written and if you run that and answer all questions
> accurately it should make you useable configuration files for mutt.
> I can send you a copy of that script but I'll not send that to lynx-dev.
>
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 15:49:16
>> From: Karen Lewellen <[email protected]>
>> To: Jude DaShiell <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Mouse <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] 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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