Hi Karl, My daughter with her Windows laptop created an account for me on fastmail.com successfully. The kapcha took a form I have never seen before. Instead of an image to copy to an input field, it took the form of a series of statements to click on, each of them reading:
I am not a robot When she clicked the submit button, it welcomed me by name, "Hello Chuck, Welcome to Fastmail ... " That's the good news. On my linux desktop, I entered: edbrowse www.fastmail.net and got their opening page again. Selecting the Log In link this time instead of the Sign Up link, I got to a page that said "3 lines were replaced by line 1" and the page before me was one line long, with no printable characters on that line. I thyped qt on that line, returned to my shell prompt, and once more typed: edbrowse www.fastmail.net and this time it opened the page where I had previously typed qt. In other words, it bypassed the opening screen. In order to test sending and receiving mail using the account I had created, I had to know the format of the smtp and imap servers (fastmail no longer supports the pop protocol) so I did a google search for: fastmail smtp server name I reached fastmail documentation and found what I think is a showstopper. I cannot use my account password to connect to their servers. Instead, I need to create and use an "app password". It turns out I can only create an app password for an app on their list of supported apps, and of course that list does not contain any Linux apps: no mutt, no alpine, and of course no edbrowse. I think I have run this into the ground, and will have to look elsewhere for an alternative to my gmail address. Too bad. The fastmail I knew and loved had lots of nice features and was totally accessible. I was mistaken to think their upgrade was now accessible just because their opening page seemed to be. I wonder how long it will be before google requires the use of an "app password"? To paraphrase our fearless leader: HEY RUSSIA, IF YOU'RE LISTENING, FIND ME AN ACCESSIBLE EMAIL SERVICE THAT LETS ME USE WHATEVER APP AND OS i WANT! Chuck -- Here too, In Northeast Ohio, The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (59% of Full) If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. Sent from Viola's missing iPhone.
