Atari8guy Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Anywhere you could telnet to and run something like PINE on a server to check email? I was thinking you ought to be able to using terminal software find a server somewhere that runs PINE. Of course my memory of how early 90s stuff works is 25+ years old now and maybe that's not how it works. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Hi, You could try getting a free shell account (Google "free shell account") - this would let you log in to a remote server, though I am not sure how many systems would let you connect with telnet. I think pine has been replaced by alpine, though you could also use mutt, which is a text based email client. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 An e-mail client that talks IMAP is also very doable. -Thom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 And services like GMAIL actually expose web API's that can be dealt with: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides -Thom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 We'll need this for later: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53357741/how-to-perform-oauth-2-0-using-the-curl-cli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8guy Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 On 11/10/2020 at 6:18 PM, E474 said: Hi, You could try getting a free shell account (Google "free shell account") - this would let you log in to a remote server, though I am not sure how many systems would let you connect with telnet. I think pine has been replaced by alpine, though you could also use mutt, which is a text based email client. So I did setup a shell account with sdf.org. Very much reminds me of the terminal we had down in the student study and the end of the hall in dorms. Really cool. On Windows, I can telnet no problem, but the Atari with either ICE-T or Bob-Term I just get "connect 9600 %" I've been googling what the % means, if its awaiting a response or something, but I haven't had any luck figuring that out. Thoughts.... (is it somekind of overflow or something?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 9 minutes ago, 8bitguy1 said: So I did setup a shell account with sdf.org. Very much reminds me of the terminal we had down in the student study and the end of the hall in dorms. Really cool. On Windows, I can telnet no problem, but the Atari with either ICE-T or Bob-Term I just get "connect 9600 %" I've been googling what the % means, if its awaiting a response or something, but I haven't had any luck figuring that out. Thoughts.... (is it somekind of overflow or something?) No, this is an artifact of telnet IAC processing. A proper telnet protocol adapter needs to be added. I will do this in the course of the rewrite, if someone else doesn't get to it first. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8guy Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 Here is me checking my email via PINE on my Atari. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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