Subj : Win2k ban? To : Michael Grant From : Jay Fuller Date : Fri Dec 06 2002 04:13 pm MG> JF> nice....but i'm still on the cheap side of things for now.... MG>Mercury has protocal modules that support POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, Finger, PopPass MG>POP3 distributing services (for polling other POP3 servers) and tight MG>integration with Pegasus Mail, (utilizing user directories) which is another MG>product written by the author of Mercury. It has content control, filtering MG>rules, support for aliases, and full control over SMTP relaying. It's quite MG>full-featured... no kidding....geez. MG> MG> JF>> Also, how do you feel about the discontinued support for nt-4 MG> MG> JF>> ? MG> MG>> Well, since Win 2000 is in reality Win NT v5.0, I guess it was MG> MG>> inevitable. I must say, for it's age (released in 1996) it sure was MG> MG>> advanced for it's time After struggling with mail hubbing and 24/7 MG> MG>> BBS stuff for a few years with W 95 and then Win 98, I now sure MG> MG>> wished I'd started out with NT in the first place. I tried Linux MG> MG>> along the way, and I liked it, but BBSing under it can pretty get MG> MG>> complicated, while NT is a little more familiar, and older BBS MG> MG>> st will still work under it. MG> JF> I may have to take some time and play around with this package. I'm MG> JF> thinking (soon) I'll be converting my telnetable BBS from win95 (cause MG> JF> it is strictly DOS based and I thought that would be the best MG> JF> implementation for it, since the machine is a 100 mhz machine) to MG> JF> NT-4. Moving to NT 4, though, I'll be changing computers to roughly a MG> JF> 400 mhz. (I believe). I'm still working on it. :) MG>If you want to maintain dial-up with a front end mailer for your BBS, it can MG>get complicated, because fossil support for NT is tricky, and not all DOS MG>mailers work with NT. The problem is that NT handles the passing of the hot MG>comm port radically differently from how Win 9x handles it. NT dynamically MG>assigns the comm port handle on the fly, while it's a set value tied to the MG>comm port number under Win 9x. MG>Argus is one front end that works with NT, and provides a special parameter MG>(%Z) that will work with DOS doors, but I couldn't get Mystic/DOS to work wi MG>it. Some Win 32 based BBSes will work for dial up with Win32 based mailers MG>under NT, but not all of them. (And I've been unable to get some Win32 based MG>mailers to work for dial up.) MG>Mystic BBS is one package that has problems, even in the Win 32 version; so MG>stuck having to continue running my BBS under Win 98 until James Coyle relea MG>an updated version. I've heard Maximus and ProBoard will work; not sure abou MG>any others. Mine's UltraBBS. Long discontinued, but I love the software (and helped test it during development). It doesn't matter to me, though, worst case scanario, I'll leave the 486 intact and just run another 400 mhz box networked to the BBS files and run it that way....[so it'd be on two machines] * OLX 2.1 TD * Space,the final frontier,these are the voyages.......... --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Deep Space Nine BBS - dsnbbs.dyndns.org - 256.734.0818 (1:3613/22) .