Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Email services for vintage computers
One option is to use a Unix shell account via Telnet. Alpine took the place of pine but should still work. It’s how I used to read my email using a c64 with a dialup modem about 30 years ago. On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 4:19 PM Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Greetings!
Now that I've gotten my first halfway-decent PC online (apologies to the IBM AT in my basement), I'd like to know if there are any email services that can be used by retrocomputers. As far as I know, all the email services that we use today require encryption that an old computer (and old email client) can't support. But is that really the case? Are there any solutions available for somebody who wants to be able to check their email from Netscape Navigator?
Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them or She/Her Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger
One option is to use a Unix shell account via Telnet. Alpine took the place of pine but should still work. It’s how I used to read my email using a c64 with a dialup modem about 30 years ago.
That was how I connected to my first personal email account, on Grex. SDF should still be offering comparable services (Grex is no more). On an old computer, one did not typically use webmail, but POP3/SMTP with an email client. Netscape should come with one. There probably aren't too many legit email providers that would allow unencrypted POP3/SMTP access nowadays, but you could run your own, or a relay. Thanks, Jonathan
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