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

[Karen Lewellen]

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 <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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