[sorry, a little OT for the Lynx list as it wanders off into mail-programs rather than using the Gmail web interface via lynx]
On 2019-11-05 10:16, 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. Both POP3 & IMAP are standards and I've had success accessing Gmail from multiple utilities including alpine, mutt, and offlineimap/mbsync, along with sending via msmtp. Granted, most of those aren't DOS tools. The two elements I've found that are usually required though if you're hitting a wall with them: 1) last I checked, Google only does SSL/TLS connections, so if your mail program tries to access POP3/IMAP/SMTP over an unencrypted connection, it will balk. Fortunately, all the tools I mentioned above support TLS (or upgrading an unencrypted connection to an encrypted one with STARTTLS). However, there are still some out there (especially older code-bases that haven't been updated) that assume that plain-text is fine for sending credentials & email over the wire. Please either upgrade your mail program, or use something like offlineimap/mbsync (for IMAP) or fetchmail (for POP) that does the TLS for you and syncs it to a local mbox/Maildir/MH folder which your mail program should then be able to access locally without concern for the encryption. 2) for Gmail, you need login access, either with an OAUTH-enabled program, or by going into your Gmail settings and setting up an "application specific password". Far fewer tools support OAUTH for login, so you'll likely have better success if you set up the application password, at which point most mail programs just work as expected when given the credentials & server info. -Tim _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
