I'm using Mutt right now, a command-line email client for Linux. On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 07:01:11PM -0600, Rugxulo via Freedos-user wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 4:17 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > Google intends removing all access to basic HTML, and is forcing the issue > > as of today. > > Did they state a reason? Maintenance burden? Or just better security? > Because email was always plain text and pretty insecure. > > Realistically, I wonder if there are supported Chromebooks for sale > with good accessibility options for basic tasks (emails, word > processing, browsing the web). (In some ways, I feel they aren't > tested well or aren't supported for long or just scattered in obscure > locations with little promotion.) > > > A second option would be a command line browser tool that substituted > > for the gmail interface, but that, if I could not use it directly from > > DOS, could be set up in the Ubuntu shell I have with shellworld. > > I assume Ubuntu is much, much better supported. Surely somebody on > Linux (or BSD) does email via terminal / commandline. > > > My question is this. > > is there a DOS only based email client, in freedos, in djppp or something > > that might meet this need? > > Text-based? Probably not. Though I always say it's not impossible ... > but, in reality, there are so few DJGPP volunteers that a lot doesn't > get done. > > Georg Potthast did a graphical (FLTK) FLmail a while back. I never > tested it (and it's probably somewhat unstable), but I bet that mostly > works. > > "FLMAIL91.zip FlMail email client version 0.91" > "FLMAIL91.zip 2014-11-14 5.2 MB" > > * > https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/files/Applications/Binary%20versions%20of%20FLTK%20applications/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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