[Alpine-info] Seeking someone who..?

[Karen Lewellen]

..this addresses my personal situation how exactly?
I have enough folks from the not monitored google accessibility list 
telling me to be disabled as google defines the term.
I respect you can move on, for me, at  least where years of personal, 
professional and legal content is concerned,  I need a door.
alpine is  able to provide one as I understand it.



On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Bret Busby wrote:


> On 27/11/23 05:26, Karen Lewellen wrote:

>>  Currently uses alpine to access their gmail account.

>>  A bit of context

>>  I experience sight loss, with basic html my only direct access to my gmail

>>  account..which has been removed as of last Monday.

>>  I use my gmail account personally and professionally, its lost is quite

>>  quite quite a situation for me.

>>  There is an associate in Toronto who is aiming to provide an email setup,

>>  configuring alpine to access gmail, but he has never configured alpine

>>  before.

>>  As I experience sight loss, and have only accessed my gmail account via

>>  the web interface, I  need to

>>  1, be sure what I am told should happen here incorporating imap is what I

>>  expect,

>>  and 2, insure my associate has correct information, all of my alpine

>>  access is via dreamhost, and they do not configure alpine well.

>>  My associate is using Alpine 2.5, which I recall has a tool that allows

>>  one to authenticate to gmail,  but I am seeking someone with direct

>>  experience so this gets done  to the best of Alpine's ability.

>>  If you are personally doing this, Can you please write me off list?

>>  I absolutely positively do not have the emotional capacity to gamble here,

>>  hoping to connect Ron with someone who knows what they are doing.

>>  klewellen at shellworld.net

>>  thanks,

>>  Kare

>>

>> 

>

> Thank you for that message.

>

> I had not accessed my gmail account for a while, so, was not aware of the 

> elimination of the basic HTML option.

>

> It is apparently part of the increasing gratuitous bastardy of the script 

> kiddies sabotaging ICT, so as to malignantly make ICT less usable, and less 

> productive.

>

> Consequently, it seems that my days of using gmail, have come and gone, with 

> gmail now just another borg thing, to be avoided.

>

> ....

> Bret Busby

> Armadale

> Western Australia

> (UTC+0800)

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