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DOS email clients? (Users)

posted by mceric, Germany, 21.11.2023, 10:26

Hi! As often with DOS, the problem will be TLS / SSL support. For example Arachne supports mail, but no TLS / SSL. It can only invoke wget and curl to get some hint of support, for https websites.

One idea might be forwarding your mail to a provider with roundcube or squirrelmail webmail, which might work with DOS browsers.

Has anybody tested compatibility with lynx, links, dillo or similar for DOS yet? I guess w3m and elinks are not yet available for DOS?

Old DOS versions have existed for Pegasus Mail, Mutt and Pine at some point, but their TLS / SSL support will be as outdated as their last DOS versions.

The information on whether DOS versions existed at all is taken from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients

I am not aware of DOS ports of related clients Alpine, Cone, and Mailx, but those are classic text-based mail clients as well.

You could also try a tool based approach with fetchmail, popclient or similar, to download your mail into local files, which you can then open with other tools of your choice. Sending mail would be a spearate task then.

The Gnus mail client for Emacs might work with Emacs for DOS, but will depend on Emacs for TLS / SSL, which I doubt any DOS version of Emacs supports properly?

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• DOS email clients? - Karen, 21.11.2023, 04:50
  • DOS email clients? - mceric, 21.11.2023, 10:26
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