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Bill Horne commented: | John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> wrote: | >Do you have a gmail account? It works with http:// or | >https://, and I routinely use the secure link. If you don't | >have a gmail account, I can give you one. (Every computer | >geek oughta have one, right? ;-) | | Note that gmail does not yet support Opera. I hadn't tried that. I suppose it's not surprising. One thing that I learned quickly is that gmail's web pages are mostly javascript. I've looked at the js a bit, and I'd predict that any browser whose js isn't exactly like one that the google team has tested agains would probably not work too well. I'm not sure what opera uses for js, but I do recall reading comments that it seems different from the javascripts that mozilla/firefox and IE use. I did a quick check from the opera on my PB (that's OSX), and when I logged in to gmail, it told me "Your browser's cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on." I check, and cookies are turned on, so the js test that gmail uses is failing with opera. This isn't an unusual problem, of course; I've seen a lot of pages that fail from mozilla or firefox with a claim that cookes are disabled. | If you'd like a home-based secure email solution, Squirelmail works well. The original question was about remote access via a browser. Does squirrelmail provide a web interface? If so, and your machine is visible on the web, this could be a good answer. No need to depend on an outside email supplier.
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