Sam Steele 🏳️🌈 🎮 📸 👨💻Reading a Mastodon toot from @thomholwerda on my Palm VIIx in Eudora Mail via a Mastodon-to-POP3 gateway: https://github.com/nkizz/mop3
Thom Holwerda@sam Can an idiot set this up?
< idiot in question
@[email protected] The gateway is super easy to install, you just type "cargo install mop3" in the terminal (assuming you have Rust etc. already). Then you just run it in the terminal, and give it an authentication token as a command line argument (the instructions are all on the github README).
If your PDA has wifi then you should just be able to enter the IP address of your computer as the POP3 and SMTP servers in VersaMail or whatever email client you have on your PDA.
Mine doesn't have internet access, so getting it all to work through HotSync was a bit more tricky, especially since Palm OS 3.5 doesn't have a built-in email client.
Forgot to mention: There's a bug in the current release of the gateway that prevents the `--ascii` option from working, so use `--html --inline` even if your mail client doesn't support HTML mail. The Eudora conduit seems to strip the HTML fine, though some unicode characters get a bit garbled on the Palm. Hopefully the `--ascii` flag will be fixed soon, there's a github issue about it here: https://github.com/nkizz/mop3/issues/4
thread 'main' panicked at 'Server sent malformed JSON ...' · Issue #4 · nkizz/mop3
mop3 seems to panick: RUST_BACKTRACE=full mop3-macos-arm64 --account "[email protected]" \ --token "..." \ --pop3port 10110 \ --ascii --nosmtp result in the following when pop3 client tries to co...
@sam Yeah I checked, I should be able to do that! Awesome!