Subj : Offline Mail Doors
To   : PHIL KIMBLE
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Tue May 22 2018 06:36 pm

> I am running Mystic 1.12.  It has builtin QWK & QWKE capabilities so I may 
jus
> end up creating a pretty screen to call it done. I played with several doors
> this weekend. It seems as if almost all read the bbs config file so none of
> them will work (true integration) with Mystic unless I invest in the manual
> housekeeping.

Yeah, most message download doors did have some sort of "hook" in them that
made them work with specific bbs software.  They are not as portable as
other doors.

That said, some BBS software did have "adaptor" software written that would
allow offline mail doors to work with their software.  Back before QWK
doors were written for, or QWK support added to, GT Power, some sysops were
able to use something called "Megamail" (I think?) which created offline
packets for users to read using "Megareader" (again, I think?).  I cannot
remember what BBS software that door was originally meant to work with.
Been a long time.  :)

Mike

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