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/
> 
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