Subj : New elist program ab
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Vince Coen
Date : Mon Jan 27 2020 17:08:36

Hello Dale!

Monday January 27 2020 01:57, you wrote to me:

 >  -=> On 01-26-20  21:40,  Vince Coen <=-
 >  -=> spoke to All about New elist program about t <=-

 > Do you have the passwords that were used by the previous echolist
 > keeper?
 > Any thought on how long it will take for email submissions?


A1. Nope all is lost so it is a total re-load.
A2. No, as of this moment I cannot find suitable tools that I can use to :
    Scan incoming emails for a given address
    Pass on the content text ( to a file by choice ).
    Send a email using a text file as input along with a sending email addr 
and
    subject line.

How ever if any one can help here within a Linux platform (Mageia v7 X64) I
would be grateful

Also needs similar to scan and grap Netmails in a JAM message system (mbse).

Both will be needed to complete full functionality.

I have Ben's Basic source and here the problem was that he used a 'very' old
PowerBasic V5 compiler and the Basic language used between the current v9
onwards is very differnt and after a four hours of changing the sources still
could not get a clean compile. So gave up on it and rewrote the entire
application in another language that compiles to C using the GNU GCC
development system. This is available on any *nix system as well as OSX and
modern windows systems.

Needless to say there was not bactch files provided including any compiler
files so cannot work out what was used other than his use of Mystic BBS.

Also any updates to the compiler I use, will NOT involve any needed changes to
the source code unless a programmer would like to make it prettier or use more
modern syntax that can occur over the years with a change of Language
standards.
Standards change every 3 - 7 years but rarely affect any previous standards
they just add to them.

So minimum (read that as none) changes = zero effort to use some where else.
Hopefully this will future proof the application - well short of qantum
computers being the norm for home computing :)

Vince

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