Greetings, I posted the following message to debian-accessibility and I post it again suggested.
Briefly, I am a "long term" debian user (since debian potato) and I am almost but not completely blind. This happened recently, so I am still adapting to the new situation. Please keep this in mind, as it is the primary problem for us. I find increasily difficult and error prone to read/send email via a browser and would like to either use emacs (preferred, now that it talks, thanks to speechd-el) or the command line. 'Though I managed to send mail to my gmail account by allowing less secure applications, this is likely not to be a viable solution (it seems that google is going to forbit less secure application access starting November first of this year and it is already a pain to use it now). Two factor authentication may well be the only solution for desktop users in a couple of months time. Your Institution willl have somebody solving this issue for you, but at home normal users who prefer to avoid using a browser for email are on their own. Once the authentication issue is solved, then any client (not only a browser) should be able to read/send mail, making life for me and possibly other visually impaired people easier. Here is what I plan to do: * use mbsync to fetch mail locally * use any tool to read/edit mail locally (I will use emacs and mu4e, but at this point any editor and mail agent than can work with mail locally should be just fine) * configure exim to deal with gmail authentication to read and send mail via smtp gmail server frpm localhost. Is this a reasonable approach? Any comment or suggestion? Any other way of dealing with email locally, without a browser, and to use the network only for reading/sending mail with an imap/smtp server acceptable authorization? BTW, swacks is in debian and it is a very nice tool to test smtp connections from the command line: swaks --tls --auth --to <username>@gmail.com --server smtp.gmail.com Be careful with spoken passwords .. Loredana
