Subj : Re: exec/sbbsecho_upgrade
To   : Accession
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Mar 01 2016 04:59:00

  Re: Re: exec/sbbsecho_upgrade.js
  By: Accession to rswindell on Thu Feb 25 2016 05:39 pm

 > Hello rswindell,
 >
 > On 25 Feb 16 00:52, rswindell wrote to CVS commit:
 >
 >  rs> exec sbbsecho_upgrade.js 1.6 1.7
 >  rs> Update of /cvsroot/sbbs/exec
 >  rs> In directory cvs:/tmp/cvs-serv15308
 >
 >  rs> Modified Files:
 >  rs>         sbbsecho_upgrade.js
 >  rs> Log Message:
 >  rs> Updated to reflect my latest decisions on key names in sbbsecho.ini:
 >  rs> VerboseAndCamelCase instead of terse_c_style names.
 >
 > While you're revamping sbbsecho, I was thinking about a possible feature
 > request.
 >
 > While I understand I'm able to read netmail/email with Golded+ by linking to
 > /ctrl/mail.shd, could it be possible to be able to write to that base using
 > external editors as well?

You alrady can. There's nothing in Synchronet (or SBBSecho) prenting an
SMB-aware message editor from writing messages to the mail base. smbutil can be
used for this purpose even.

 > Maybe I should rephrase that. Like JAM message areas, there is a separate
 > area/sub-board for NETMAIL that can be accessed, read, and posted to.
 > Linking to mail.cnf seems to have every single piece of internet mail as
 > well as netmail to any and all users all mixed into one, all readable by me.

If GoldEd+ is displaying all messages to you, that's a feature/function of
GoldEd+ and has nothing to do with SBBSecho or Synchronet.

 > If everything for everyone goes through that one section, and won't be
 > changed in that regard, can we have the option to setup a personal netmail
 > sub-board to use like JAM software can do?

Synchronet already does that. If you read the mail base using a
Synchronet-supported method (not GoldEd+) you'll normally only see *your*
messages. What you're describing just sounds like a bug (or a feature,
depending on how you look at it) of GoldEd+.

 > Even having the versatility of linking multiple node numbers to that netmail
 > area/sub-board would be nice, so you only have to have one netmail
 > area/sub-board for any/all networks, but also with the ability to setup
 > multiple for separating networks' netmail as well..
 >
 > I guess I'd basically like to be able to separate Fido-style netmail from
 > the rest of the internet mail, and be able to post to it externally (via
 > smbutil) or even access it via an external program like Golded.
 >
 > Kinda winged it there on describing it.. but I hope that's enough for you to
 > understand where I'm going with that. lol If not, ask away and I'll answer
 > as best I can.

I have no plans to decouple different *types* of personal mail into separate
message bases. All the personal mail goes in the mail base. That's the
Synchronet design. And it really has nothing to do with SBBSecho.

                                            digital man

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