Re: reaching gmail in basic html?

Okay, this I can test.
One question to be absolutely sure.
The person doing this for me must first log into my gmail  account in a 
graphical  browser.  Then, they must choose to read  in basic html and log 
out  in the basic html  session.  yes the password  is requested twice, I 
go through that doing so  in elinks and links.
Once they log out  perhaps even saving basic html as my preference?, I 
should  get back in again.
  will try this evening posting my results.
In fact, this explains how the problem likely started in  the first place.
thanks!


On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Alejandro Lieber wrote:

> Karen:
> My experience is that:
>
> 1)- If you log out of a session of gmail using the GMAIL STANDARD net view 
> version using Firefox or Chrome, you will NOT BE able to open it again with a 
> text browser without Java-scripts.
>
> 2)- if you log out  a session of gmail using the "GMAIL HTML FOR SLOW 
> CONNECTIONS" version option at the botton of the page, using Firefox or 
> Chrome, you will BE able to open it again ad infinitum with a text browser 
> WITHOUT Java-scripts. You will be asked TWICE for the password.
>
> 3)- If you don't have a graphic browser, you'll have to give your email 
> password  to
> someone you trust to configure GMAIL in graphic mode, the only way it can be 
> done.
>
> Alejandro Lieber
> Rosario  Argentina
>
> On 6/11/19 22:11, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> as expressed more than once, I can still reach my  first and older
>>  gmail account with lynx in basic html, do this several times a day.
>>  To be sure, perhaps only  newer accounts are generating the problem.
>>  Fully realizing that alpine  quality strongly flows from talent, we have
>>  it via dreamhost for  my office e-mail.  It times out while reading
>>  items several times a day and crashes regularly...likely tied to the
>>  dreamhost shell configuration more than anything else.
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, dan d. wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> >  Alpine is another text only cli mail client that can pull down gmail 
>> >  with an imap or pop connection.  It is configured in the alpine setup 
>> >  section.
>> > 
>> >  I'm reading this message via that approach.
>> > 
>> >  I have had an email account for some years and it still allows lynx 
>> >  access.  I think at some fairly recent point existing accounts were
>> >  grandfathered in and new accounts refused using lynx.
>> > 
>> >  On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> > 
>> > >  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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