Re: webmail and email from command line
On 8/13/2019 8:09 PM, loredana wrote:
> I find increasily difficult and error prone to read/send email via a
> browser and would like to either use emacs (preferred, now that it
> talks) or the command line.
>
> 'Though I managed to send mail to my gmail account by allowing less
> secure applications, this is likely not to be a viable solution (it
> seems that google is going to forbit less secure application access
> starting November first of this year and it is already a pain to use
> it now).
>
> Two factor authentication may well be the only solution for desktop
> users in a couple of months time.
>
> Your Institution willl have somebody solving this issue for you, but
> at home normal users who prefer to avoid using a browser for email are
> on their own.
>
> Once the authentication issue is solved, then any client (not only a
> browser) should be able to read/send mail, making life for me and
> possibly other visually impaired people easier.
>
> Here is what I plan to do:
>
> 1) use mbsync to fetch mail locally
>
> 2) use any tool to read/edit mail locally (I will use emacs and mu4e,
> bt at this point any editor and mail agent able to work with mail
> locally should be just fine)
>
> 3) configure exim to deal with gmail authentication to read and send
> mail via smtp gmail server.
>
> Is this a reasonable approach? Any comment or suggestion? Any other
> way of dealing with email locally, without a browser and to use the
> network only for reading/sending mail with an acceptable
> authorization?
>
> BTW, swacks is in debian and it is a very nice tool to test smtp
> connections from the command line:
>
> swaks --tls --auth --to <username>@gmail.com --server smtp.gmail.com
>
> Be careful with spoken passwords ..
You might have better exposure on debian-user as it is not a
"accessibility" issue per say.
--
John Doe
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