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


From: Karen Lewellen
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] reaching gmail in basic html?
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 20:42:54 -0500 (EST)

Wait, your account got hacked after using Google's more secure authentication process?



On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Jude DaShiell wrote:

I had to create a new account on google since my original account got
taken over after I enabled two-factor authentication.  I can access my
account using mutt and it turns out edbrowse will also work.
The edbrowse app requires a directory structure be created described in
the .ebrc file dropped into a user directory the first time edbrowse is
run.  The .ebrc file has to have things changed in it for user's real
gmail accounts too.  So anyone uncomfortable doing these tasks had best
not run edbrowse.  Anyone wishing to use edbrowse will have to locate
the user manual for it where they use it and will need to read and do
the learning curve.  This is a powerful and unique tool, so use
accordingly or handle the consequences.

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, dan d. wrote:

Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 12:26:05
From: dan d. <address@hidden>
To: Karen Lewellen <address@hidden>
Cc: Jude DaShiell <address@hidden>, Mouse <address@hidden>,
    address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] reaching gmail in basic html?


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 <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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