Subj : Offline Mail Doors
To   : mark lewis
From : Phil Kimble
Date : Mon May 21 2018 10:19 pm

Hi Mark,

 ml>  On 2018 May 17 22:56:46, you wrote to All:


 PK>> For some odd reason I suddenly have an obsession to install a offline 
 PK>> mail door. After d/ling BlueWave Mail Door,
Spent a few hours this weekend testdriving several different doors to realize 
that none will integrate into a MysticBBS without manual housekeeping.

 ml> Bluewave stuff must all be patched for y2k... doors and clients... 
 ml> without the patch, there will be random numbers in the To and/or From 
 ml> fields... the problem is the two digit year is calculated by 
 ml> subtracting 1900 from the current year... that gives a value greater 
 ml> than 99... they don't ensure that the returned value is only two 
 ml> digits aka result := mod(result,100)... it is an overlooked flaw that 
 ml> stems from doing math calcs on the year instead of string work with 
 ml> substr...

 ml>   http://www.wpusa.dynip.com/files/BLUEWAVE/
Thanks for the link. There is alot of good stuff at Waldo's. It seems either WP 
or Tiny has almost eerything archived these days.

 ml> there's two ways to handle the y2k problem... neither is official and 
 ml> never can be... the preferred one, true patch of binaries, is at the 
 ml> very top of the page... the other one is mainly user-side but can be 
 ml> run on the BBS side... it is down in the 3rd section of the files 
 ml> list... it is not a patch but a glue program used when the file is 
 ml> (un)zipped...


 PK>> I am curiouswht the others are & if they are worth looking into? OLMS
 PK>> will be the next adventure...


 ml> OLMS stopped working properly over here... when it would shell to zip 
 ml> up the files to send to the user, it would stop with some weird sort 
 ml> of memory allocation error... looks to me to be maybe an indicator of 
 ml> a pirated copy but the reg key is the free one...


 ml> )\/(ark

 ml> Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
 ml> Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer 
 ml> doin' it wrong...
 ml> ... Poo poo occurs.
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Thx
Phil

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