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

Hello Digital,

On 25 Feb 16 18:17, Digital Man wrote to Accession:

 >> 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?

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

Okay. That's information enough. Golded still apparantly can't handle all of SM
 features.

 >> 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.

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

Apparantly it doesn't know users. Since all netmail as well as internet mail to
and from everyone is stored in mail.shd, I'm guessing you're right and it's a G
lded error. It only reads the file that is given to it, and while it reads that
file just fine, I don't want to see netmails not to or from me.

 >> 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?

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

Confirmed. Thanks for the feedback. There is and was no one supporting the SMB 
upport of Golded besides you at that recent point. And before that I'm sure it 
as probably a decade or more since anyone has done so.. so it's a moot point.

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

Ok. Thanks.

Regards,
Nick

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