Subj : Re: VADV & DBridge
To   : Nick Andre
From : Zazz
Date : Mon Oct 17 2016 09:17 am

 NA> The biggest challenge with BBS software that uses proprietary storage
 NA> formats for mail, is what to do when it comes time to make them play
 NA> nicely with 3rd-party software to actually do Fido stuff. At the bare
 NA> minimum, the BBS software has to have a way to at least create
 NA> *.MSG-formatted mail files, so that software like D'Bridge can pack it
 NA> up and build an outbound Queue entry.

That explains a lot.  I am in contact with Steve Winn, VADV support.  I will
pass this info on to him.

 NA> So the goal is to figure out how VADV can work with *.MSG storage for
 NA> Netmail and a method known as ArcMail file-attaches. This will allow
 NA> D'Bridge to work with your BBS software; though I will recommend the way
 NA> is to allow D'Bridge to process all Netmail AND Echomail outgoing
 NA> messages using the internal tosser.

Ok, then I will look into this also

Ruben Figueroa aka Zazz
Mystic Prison Board Sysop
telnet://pb.darktech.org:24
Web: www.rdfig.net

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