Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and webmail interfaces?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi,
my current access to both pine and alpine are tied to shellworld entirely, 
or   via the dreamhost shell service provided to my office.
There is indeed a pine for DOS.
The question seems to be if it can be configured to access gmail, 
including passing any security related factors?
My absolute goal is full access to my gmail inbox, if I must use another 
provider, I must be able to input those contents for personal, legal, and 
professional reasons.   if alpine can do this,  can not some of the 
associated tools be incorporated into pine?
Where would I find the answers to this
Kare


On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Karen Lewellen dixit:
>
> > There is a thread over at DOS ain't dead about providers who  still have web
> > interfaces, using roundcube or squirrel mail, someone even spoke of fastmail.
> > Anyone know of  either an email service that incorporates these lower graphics
>
> Is using pine a possibility? (I think there was a DOS port of that.)
> That sounds much less overhead and much more reliability than a web
> interface, and in addition, your interface to the mail system will
> continue to just be the same pine you’re using (or with minimal changes
> over years in the case of alpine).
>
> If you have access to a pine/alpine at your shellserver and find it
> usable for yourself, you can set it up to access multiple eMail
> providers (as long as they support IMAP) as well.
>
> lynx-usable webmail is so niche that I wouldn’t invest too much
> effort into finding anything there (plus even things that are lynx-
> accessible now need not continue to do so, I suffered from a bank
> stopping that for online banking).
>
> Good luck,
> //mirabilos
> --
> > Wish I had pine to hand :-( I'll give lynx a try, thanks.
>
> Michael Schmitz on nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k
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