Eudora and gmail? 7.5.3 will it work?

[mraroid]

Hi...

Is anyone running eudora (or other email software) and using it to send and receive email using gmail?

I am running 7.5.3 and can upgrade to 7.5.5 if need be.  I am running a Color Classic with a Color Classic II logic board and the max amount of RAM.

I know eudora and would like to use that if I can.  But I will learn any software if I can send and receive email with my gmail account.

Anyone?

Advice appreciated.

jack
 

 

[raoulduke]

No. But I'll say very unlikely since these guys know more than me.

 

[techknight]

If you have a helper program that translates all that SSL goobidly gahh then sure itll work. 

Otherwise, nope. 

My ISP, well old ISP stll had unsecure mail servers with older protocols, So i could still check email today with 68K machines. But the problem is, most email has become more and more commercialized, therefore HTML based and well the email is useless at that point. 

 

[mraroid]

Thanks for the feedback techknight.  I had hopes of using my color classic to send and receive gmail.  But I guess that is not an option.  Also, I am limited to what software I can run because my color classic has the original screen resolution.  I am however running a color classic II logic board.

Maybe someone here has figured out a fix or has a helper application.  But it is sounding like that may not happen.

jack

 

 

[techknight]

The helper application is out there, I think there is a thread or two on it here. I cant recall where though. 

 

[raoulduke]

http://email.about.com/od/eudoratips/qt/How-to-Access-Gmail-with-Eudora.htm

I couldn't find anything on 68kmla with those keywords either through our search feature or google.

 

[Cory5412]

Raoulduke's link is probably for newer versions of Eudora. Anything that runs on an '000 or an '020 isn't going to be capable of talking to Google directly, because Google absolutely mandates SSL encryption.

Google has further gone out of their way to separate (and by default, disallow) clients that it thinks aren't secure enough, even if they do support all of the right security and encryption standards.

Another way around it is, as techknight mentioned, to use another mail host that allows you to make the decision to use "insecure" standards.

The insecurity of these standards is that if you use plain IMAP or POP3 without SSL or TLS encryption, your user name and password (and all your mail) are transmitted over the wire in clear, human-readable text. With an updated server, it shouldn't really cause any problems to allow these standards on a modern mail system. (I've considered it for the local LAN on my server, but that'll be a problem for later.)

Another possibility is to use telnet with a shell account and pine/alpine/mutt, etc, but at that point you're not really using "the Mac" for email as much as using it as a telnet client and doing your mail on a remote computer of some variety.

 

[mraroid]

raoulduke and Cory5412....

Thank you both for the good information.  I am moving to another country in a few months and I am only allowed to bring in two computers.  But I can buy a 3rd in that country (Ecuador).  So right now, I have my Color Classic and a PC that will dual boot ubuntu.

I have not gotten to that point yet, but I was going to try to figure out how to see my color classic on a network with my other computer.

So, Cory5412, are you saying I can still send and receive email on my color classic, if I  send it to a ubuntu or PC, and have it send the mail?  Would it run automatically when I am on the color classic and poll for email?  I will read the shell account link.  Thank you.

I am not stuck on using Eudora.  But it is what I started using in the late 1980s and kind of like it.  But I can use any email software on my color classic that would work.  My Color Classic still uses the original screen mode.

I was forced to sell my completely rebuilt my IIfx, Power Mac and my Mac tower. 

jack