Re: email in general (was "Re: Whatsapp problem")

My nieghboor is limited to her phone.  Now she can not even send to me much
less receive from me.  Her searches turned up WhatsApp which I am
attempting to make work.

snap list
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  latest/stable  canonical✓    -
mesa-2404               25.0.7-snap211                  1165
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snap-store              0+git.10310e85                  1367   2/stable
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snapd                   2.75.2                          26865
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whatsapp-linux-desktop  1.0.1-edge-1                    3
     latest/stable  sayedulsayem  -

My problem is now making it work.

CWSIV

On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 4:25 AM David T-G <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Carl, et al --
>
> ...and then Carl Spitzer said...
> %
> ...
> % There was a gateway through which her service allowed email to come in
> and
> % by which she could reply.  It has been shut down so I am trying to
> replace
> % it.
> [snip]
>
> I've been trying to follow this and I think it finally makes sense.  It
> was an interesting approach, though :-)
>
> So if she needs email, what about browser-based email to any of the big
> freebie hosts?  If she has a smartphone, then she can surf, and so even
> if she can't use the native mail application on the device because of
> whatever her provider is doing she should be able to surf.  You might
> even go as far as a VPN to let her surf wherever -- which then, I expect,
> puts directly emailing back on the table.
>
>
> HTH & HAND
>
> :-D
> --
> David T-G
> See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/
> See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
>
>