Subj : Re: SearchLight
To   : robert wolfe
From : Russell Wiley
Date : Thu Apr 19 2018 08:42 am

 r> On 04/03/18, Nick Andre said the following...
 r>  
 r>  NA> On 03 Apr 18  11:22:00, Robert Wolfe said the following to All:
 r>  NA> 
 r>  NA> RW> I was wondering if anyone else participating in the echo was 
 r>  NA> RW> SearchLight as well and if so, how do you have your netmail c
 r>  NA> RW> up as I am having an issue getting that set up as ViaMail!/SL
 r>  NA> RW> the MAIL board for netmail.
 r>  NA> 
 r>  NA> From what I remember, you need to run a utility to make the messa
 r>  NA> databases non-Y2K, then import the Netmail, then run the utility 
 r>  NA> to make them Y2K. Netmail can only be imported in *.MSG format.
 r> 
 r> But, I think that is only if SLMAIL was being used, in this case, it
 r> is not.

That is correct.  SLMAIL was never updated to be y2k compliant.  This
viamail has now become interesting and quick google searches didn't find
much on it.  Do you have it on your board?  I tried the addr in the tag
line, but that went to a wildcat board with no File access on first call.

I was working with a guy back in the 95-97 timeframe for something better
than SLMail for Searchlight, but not sure what ever became of that
project since I moved across the country and shut down the BBS in 97. 
SLMail was always a pain.  Frank never thought much of the FTN networks,
so really didn't put in the effort to make it work well and Pat's sole
purpose was to sell more RIP tools, so SLMail remains the bane of my
existance. :)  I would like to checkout that software and see if there's
a good mail solution in there,

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