Re: free email woes

["Donald C. Lee" <dlee17@ccsf.cc.ca.us>]

Hi,

      I believe the newest version of Lynx is around 2.8 or so right?  At
the moment, I'm using my community colleges Unix account to post this
message and the version of Lynx they use (2.7.1) WILL NOT work with
Hotmail.

     It was working for a while until recently when Hotmail decided to
"increase" their security during login.  SO when you login the page goes
to a "https" instead of the standard http.  Lynx keeps telling me it does
not support "https urls".  

     So unless the newest version of Lynx is supporting https urls, it may
not be compatible with Hotmail in the short term.  Perhaps in a future
version!  :)

Don

Donald Lee
http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/bay/6073

On 1 Aug 1999, Tim Hull wrote:

> Try hotmail on lynx.  I used it about 1 year ago, so it might still work.
> From my experience, it will not let you send mail, but you can receive it.
> To send mail, you can usE your favorite unix program and change the settings to list hotmail as the From: address.
> 
> 
> Tim Hull
> 
> In message <7nv63m$8q4@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>, wbdesnoy@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill) wrote:
> > Adalbert Goertz (goertza@fatalerr.com) wrote:
> > : Has anyone used Proterm, Lynx with free web-based email
> > : like www.yahoo.com?
> > 
> > Goto lynx.browser.org, select online help then select help for beginners.
> > Search for Yahoo, and follow that link.  This will tell you why Yahoo mail
> > is evil.  :-(  I'm not sure if this will be the problem with other web
> > based e-mail services though.  For those, I suggest using the latest version
> > of Lynx since the cookie support is much better.  But that implies that you
> > have control over such matters.  Alas, most of us don't have the space to
> > install our own version of Lynx on our shell account.
> > 
> > Hope that helps,
> > Byron.
> 
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