Question towards admins and fellow moderators:
The 1st part of this post is quite off topic here. Would be the best when I create a new thread, use rara's quoted below post as the
initial post of that thread and then copy my below reply as new reply to his post in there the best solution to untangle the off topic issue?
(I refer to the "gmail / GMX and alpine matter" rara asked me about. Not the "who the frog is Rana matter" at the very end)
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rara wrote:Rava wrote:TL;DR: Off Topic issues with gmail
What specific problem are you having with Gmail. Sorry I couldn't comprehend what issue are you having for so long. If I could understand I could possibly help.
Sorry rara, I have issues with alpine / Gmail and with alpine & GMX.
GMX is my main email provider, I just created a gmail account to test if the old howto use alpine and gmail still works, and if the same approach can be used for my issue with GMX.
My gmx issue, I can use alpine only for searching, reading, listing and deleting emails. It is quick as a falkon and works like a charm, quite unlike my older approach, that was Mozilla Thunderbird. Which is a nice software, that's not the issue, but for a text based communication as email, why not use a text/console based slim and highly customable I cannot
send any emails.
And with gmail: When I use the setup from the howto "config alpine with gmail", all that happens is that gmail sends me an email, telling me an unsecure software / method was just used to try to access my gmail account and that google blocked that.
Which is NOT what I want google to do.
Sadly, I tried posting a question on the gmail forum, but for some reasomn, I could log into my google account, but the button for posting on gmail forum was missing (I did allow all pages to use their own colours, so that the icon was not missing in the same black hole that swallows the Porteus Forum [Edit article] or [reply with quote] or [delete article] icons.
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Ed_P wrote:Check the poster of this link
I don't copy.... The poster of that link was rara, and he mentioned me among others in the post you linked, but I am not sure what you try to tell me, sorry...
(Also, you seem to have deleted that very part about me wondering who could be meant with Rana in datruche's quoted part from my post above, seems you deleted that part from your post post while I was writing this very reply.
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