Classic e-mail clients and Gmail

[Watchsmart]

Here's an article that mirrors a long, fruitless experiment I tried a year and a half ago:

http://systemfolder.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/classic-email-clients-gmail/

It looks at how well email clients for classic macos handle gmail. There are some notes in there about why this is tricky:

"For starters, the mere fact that Gmail requires SSL authentication for both POP and STMP connections leaves some of these clients out, because they simply do not support it. Claris Emailer and Eudora Light, for example."

He cites some good clients for use in OS 9 and so on... one recommendation is to use Classilla. But I didn't have any luck with my quest to find a System 7 and 68k compatible client that can handle gmail accounts. But I guess I could check out the programs listed there to see if any are 68k compatible. Can anyone here recognize one off-hand, or make a suggestion?

 

[ClassicHasClass]

I can't think of any 68K/System 7 clients that handle TLS in this situation, unfortunately. I would love to be proven wrong.

Even with Classilla, Gmail POP seems to act weird and sit there. IMAP works fine however.

 

[netfreak]

Outlook Express that comes with MSIE 4.0 for 68K. I'm running it right now on my Quadra. It allows for SSL connections on POP3/SMTP, port substitutions, and a few things present in the later versions. Also, it won't let you use an @ in the login name (which has to be a full e-mail address) so use a % instead.

 

[katarchaea]

Outlook Express that comes with MSIE 4.0 for 68K. I'm running it right now on my Quadra. It allows for SSL connections on POP3/SMTP, port substitutions, and a few things present in the later versions. Also, it won't let you use an @ in the login name (which has to be a full e-mail address) so use a % instead.

I'm a little late to this thread and hope perhaps someone is still using OE for your gmail. Does this still work? I get an error message: "Mail could not be received at this time. Security failure. The server reply is invalid." It doesn't seem to matter about the @ or %, even if I leave the "Account ID" field blank, it doesn't like it.

thanks for any advice!

Roy