No Howard,
I am looking for an alternative email platform comparative to
mail.google.com, where I can reach access and work with e-mail in a low
graphics environment.
that means with a browser. links elinks both of which can incorporate
javascripting in Linux, or lynx, which i use for almost everything else
several times a day.
I subscribe to a shell service, with my website having another shell
account there. I cannot install a client here, nor add a third e-mail
address here.
Is that more clear?
Thanks,
Karen
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:00:43 -0500 (EST)
Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi folks,
I was going to just ask for alternatives to consider, but want to keep the
Linux element here as I mainly use a Ubuntu shell.
Now that google is making it profoundly difficult reaching basic html in
low graphics environments, I may need a new home. I prefer reading on the
web for this account, especially as I use it largely for research needing
to follow article links and work with file attachments.
Any solid ideas?
Thanks,
Karen
Karen,
Are you looking for email that runs in a shell?
reaching = reading?
I use the email client Sylpheed, which runs in a window, i.e. not in a shell.
It happily downloads gmail through POP. Sylpheed generates email in plain
text, but it is fairly good at reading email generated in HTML. I have at
least one contact who sends stuff in Microsoft TNEF format. I save this in a
temporary directory and use the command tnef (/usr/bin/tnef) to extract it. I
originally installed Sylpheed because it worked well offline. Back in the days
before wireless, this was absolutely necessary. This still comes in handy.
The send-later feature is also useful for those emails that require twenty four
hours cooling time before sending. Sylpheed uses mh (mail handler) format,
rather than the more popular mbox format. I think I would prefer mbox, but mh
is extremely robust. Sylpheed links nicely to your browser, and you can see
those wierd HTML anchors correctly down at the bottom of the screen, e.g.
<a href="http://www.cibc.iamafuckingasshole.biz";>http://www.cibc.ca</a>
If you must use a shell, I am pretty sure Alpine will download gmail through
POP. I have not used it lately. I do not know how it handles HTML code, and
HTTP links.
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Howard Gibson
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