Hi, On 22/11/2023, Eric Auer via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Does anybody here have experience with using a squirrelmail > or roundcoube webmail in links? Might need less java script > compared to gmail to use those, and one could forward the > gmail mail to a mail provider with squirrelmail or roundcube.
I did use SquirrelMail in Links & text-mode Linux 1-2 years ago. IIRC, Navigating frames (which SM uses) was slightly annoying, but doable. Because it is simple HTML, it should be possible to skip SM's side pane altogether and only display the mailbox view, though. Even if it was (due to the frames) not exactly a streamlined experience, I was definitely able to read and write mails, so for smaller workloads, it is fine. There is also the w3m text browser, which had handy vi-like keybindings etc, but the tables and frames rendering is not as good as in Links. Apparently there has been a DJGPP-based port, but (after some googling) it might have been from ~20 years ago. http://w3m.rocks/ https://github.com/albfan/w3m/blob/master/doc/README (confirmation on the DOS port) I can't remember if I ever tried to use Gmail with w3m, though. In any case, Links was better at this. I was actually going to suggest the exact same solution (forwarding Gmail to a SM-based account). I'll very probably have to go the same route myself, because Gmail's default view always feels a bit "too much of everything". Or ditch Gmail altogether, finally... :) Not easy, because it is already tied to a bunch of online services. FWIW, I have an Unix shell account at sdf.org -- they are using NetBSD, and here are the mail tools available from the command line: http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi?faq?EMAIL?02 (I've only used SquirrelMail from them, though, and maybe tested Pine.) Might be a DOS History 101 level question, but I'm definitely more of an end-user, so I dare :) -- Historically, what was actually the reason why DOS didn't catch up with networking (as compared to Unix-land)? Security issues, the system being single-user, etc? I remember being somewhat surprised when I realized there really aren't that many simple mail clients for DOS available. Best, Mart _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
