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@mactjaap - Love to. Er.  How? As to the deletion bug, it's a brown paper bag job.  I'm deeply embarrassed, and I hide my head in shame.  I'll fix it immediately.  Before anyone notices, hopefully!

How odd.  What computer are you viewing from?  The images are hosted at http://45rpmsoftware.com/NetGateway/PICTURE1.jpgand http://45rpmsoftware.com/NetGateway/PICTURE2.jpg - can you see them if you go there directly?  Maybe try https?

Okay - so I still haven't entirely decided what it's called, and it's still only partially working, but here it is https://github.com/PascalHarris/NetGateway - have fun. I've got rather a lot on at the moment, so I make no promises as to when I'll finish writing it, but it has tremendous scope...

Okay - so progress has been made and screenshots will be available soon. Claris Emailer and Eudora are both able to retrieve email from Gmail successfully (without enabling POP on Gmail). SMTP isn't working yet, and neither is entirely happy with displaying some modern email - fortunately...

My tool is coming along more slowly than I'd hoped (the pressures of work and all that!) but it can now fetch email from multiple accounts and serve them up to a classic Mac - any classic Mac capable of running an email client. As long as it can connect to the server (using Ethernet or SLIP)...

No information on the eWorld protocols? Never mind.  Here's a progress update for you.  IMAPS functionality is now implemented and tested with Google.  I haven't tried it with iCloud yet.  I will, but first I want to get POP working. Once POP is working, I'll get SMTP going - and then build an...

As I say, within the month I aim to get a universal installer out (when I say universal installer, i mean an installer that you can download and use to install my software on any Linux / Unix machine, be it PC, RPi, old PPC Mac…) and open source the code on Git Hub. Then you can try it, improve...

In fairness, I'm doing more than discussing. I'm writing too (and, within the next few weeks, I'll open source what I've done so that anyone who's hacked off with current solutions can help with something better). This is more than idle chat. This is happening. Legacy web seems like a nice...

I think that it helps if you have a specific use case. My specific use case isn't merely the bloody mindedness of using a 20-30 year old computer today. I actually use my old Mac as part of the coding process for my new software - the reasons are twofold. Firstly, I'm too cheap to buy a new...

I'll just leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2600 But yes, your point is well made. That said, I'm damned if I'm not going to give this a go - albeit that my solution requires a modern helper computer - a Raspberry Pi for example.

In my experience, it doesn't matter if the paste is dried out and brittle.  You aren't using it for its lubricating properties - and the only reason that it's fluid when you first apply it is so that it can flow properly under the heatsink when you cinch it down.  Once tight, it can dry out all...

The code for email is far advanced now, although currently it only supports IMAPS for incoming and serves up POP for the vintage machine. Time permitting, I should have it going by the end of the month (I don't have much time to work on it). Outgoing, which I haven't done much on yet, might be...

I do ssh on my SE/30 (can't remember which program - I'll let you know later) With regard to working email on an old Mac, I'm working on it (first 'sprint'). Other solutions exist, but mine will be the easiest and most flexible (or what's the point!?). As to why, well the old Macs, and...

There are two problems to solve - one is use of https (which is to be encouraged, but which can be solved easily by using a proxy server (see my thread on Old Mac Modern Internet).  The second is the formatting of the side - which is rather harder to solve.  I can think of ways that it might be...

…and the reason I'm targeting a Raspberry Pi is that I want my solution to work for all Macs, no matter how limited. PowerPC, even the least powerful, is way too high a bar. I want this to work on everything from the original 68000 up.

I've fantasised (briefly) about this too.  It would require a custom network card to be built with a 3 port hub onboard.  One port would provide a connection to the ethernet controller on the card itself (in effect, the ethernet port for the Mac), the second would be for the Raspberry Pi...

I don't really want to push pixel data - that'd be like VNC and terribly slow.  Doing something XWindowsy would be faster - but I can see it quickly developing into an utter ball ache.  I think that, initially at least, I'll try to go down the road of wrapping / unwrapping the ssl and altering...

@techknight I forgot to say, I like your idea. Presumably the custom browser on the Mac would send the required page to the Linux machine using a nice free port, the Linux machine would then, XWindows style, send the page description back for display. Any mouse click coordinates / text entry in...

At the moment, I'm concentrating on getting email going so that vintage computers with old email clients running on them can get their email. My focus is on retrieving IMAPS email (the secure version of IMAP, as used by everyone these days) and forwarding it using POP. SMTP is SMTP, but I'll...

Wow. Great minds think alike and all that. Reading that post though, it looks like it might be a clever collection of existing software. Certainly, it mentions using stunnel - which isn't the easiest software to use. The solution that I'm writing will be self contained and, hopefully, a lot...