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Title: gmail capable browser on sl-6000
Post by: hubcapboy on October 23, 2004, 11:14:34 am

ok,I don't think I'm goin to offend anyone here:

we're all pretty much geeks.

there must, therefore, be some way of checking our gmail accounts from our shiny new tosas.  Has anyone been successful doing this?  I don't hope to get it working with stock opera, (gmail even thinks you're using IE w/o activex)  but it works very well with mozilla on the desktop.  Has mozilla been compiled for Qtopia successfully? Is there another way?  I realize the ultimate answer for this problem lies in the OZ ports via everyone's hero, nevarrie, but my impression is that the current project is not quite ready for primetime (please correct me if i'm wrong, I'd love some encouragement from someone who has been using opie for a day-to-day OS).  Gmail is just about the only thing stopping me from moving my life onto the tosa from a briefcase-sized fujitsu lappy. (well, tht and this stupid fandangled mini-a usb that no one's ever seen)

"any helps?"

thanks guys... phew, my thumbs are tired...

Title: gmail capable browser on sl-6000
Post by: smammon on October 23, 2004, 12:26:48 pm

So far I've been VNC'ing to one of my desktops and using Moz from there...  I did notice that gmail has "use gmail with my Opera browser" as one of their default choices on the "request a feature" page.

Title: gmail capable browser on sl-6000
Post by: hubcapboy on October 23, 2004, 05:49:44 pm

thanks buddy I hadn't noticed that...

I'll go ahead and submit that request a few hundred times.....

Title: gmail capable browser on sl-6000
Post by: Stubear on October 24, 2004, 02:27:07 am

Gmail runs client-side javascript, something that netfront and opera for zaurus don't yet support.

The best I've used was gmailer-lite, which you run on an apache server with php and displays a html only interface for gmail. You will need you own server (or trust the bloke who wrote the program and offers it from his server) to access gmail though.

You can also use libgmail, which is a python interface fro accessing gmail.

Stu

Title: gmail capable browser on sl-6000
Post by: benkrembs on October 24, 2004, 05:00:36 am

SOLUTION: Use www.Shadango.com (http://www.shadango.com) to check all your external email accounts.  It's free, zaurus-compatable, and checks more than just gmail (hotmail, yahoo, aol, etc)

Title: gmail capable browser on sl-6000
Post by: Stubear on October 24, 2004, 08:24:20 am

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SOLUTION: Use www.Shadango.com (http://www.shadango.com) to check all your external email accounts.  It's free, zaurus-compatable, and checks more than just gmail (hotmail, yahoo, aol, etc)

I'm a tad wary of using thrid party interfaces that may be intercepting my passwords.

Not that I know anything about Shadang.com (and that is one of the problems) but I don't even give my best friend the passwords to my email accounts, so why would I trust a company with the passwords to ALL my accounts?

Stu

Title: gmail capable browser on sl-6000
Post by: hubcapboy on October 24, 2004, 11:02:55 pm

thanks stu... I'll look into libgmail,

currently living on a sailboat and operating off a box full of laptops and the z (no internet connections but what I can grab "from thin air,") so server is not an option at the moment.

later