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

[Jude DaShiell]

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 <address@hidden>
> To: Jude DaShiell <address@hidden>
> Cc: Mouse <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 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 <address@hidden>
> >> To: Mouse <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: address@hidden
> >> 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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