Re: it: perhaps? gmail issues.

[Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>]

You know, I have come to  appreciate that alpine is only as solid as the 
service providing alpine.
For example my work Linux shell access is provided by dreamhost.
Who uses Alpine on their workspace service.
The inbox closes regularly, there is no spam filtering that allows you to 
move spam back to the inbox,
the alpine interface freezes..all the time, especially if I follow a link 
anywhere.

I may let someone test drive mutt on my other gmail account so I can 
discover how it works before tampering with my personal gmail account, 
but alpine is a no based on the mess I deal with at work using the program.
Speaking personally of firmly course.



On Mon, 20 Nov 2023, Dan Ritter wrote:

> Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > I personally am in the majority of those experiencing sight loss, and do not
> > read braille.
> > I also use Linux via a shell service, fear losing my years of gmail content
> > etc.
> > Add the captcha test for gmail and well.
>
>
> Those are reasons to use gmail via their IMAP interface instead
> of their website:
>
> - use gmail via IMAP to mutt to get a fast, keyboard-driven, pure
>  character-cell mail client
>
> - mutt runs very well on shell services, and is probably already
>  installed.
>
> - gmail never imposes a CAPTCHA while using the IMAP interface.
>
> You should try it; it might be exactly what you need.
>
> But I notice that you appear to be using pine right now. Why not
> switch to alpine, which is substantially the same but
> supported?
>
> As a bonus, it has IMAP support, so you can point it at gmail.
> Now you don't even have to learn a new client.
>
> -dsr-