Subj : SR13
To   : mark lewis
From : Joe Delahaye
Date : Tue Jun 20 2017 04:58 pm

  Re: SR13
  By: mark lewis to Joe Delahaye on Tue Jun 20 2017 12:17:38

 JD>> DM cant do much to make it compatible.  DB does not support the
 JD>> message base unfortunately

 ML> it supports the MSG message base format... in sbbsecho only but it is
 ML> there and 
 ML> not really configurable other than maybe defining the directory to use...
 ML> sbbsecho uses it to communicate with other non-mailer software, too...
 ML> interbbs 
 ML> games have to use MSG format as they don't know BSO and can't make FTN
 ML> PKTs... this is also how sbbsecho communicates with non-BSO mailers... he
 ML> could probably also make it directly compatible with dB... problem is how
 ML> many folks are still using a non-BSO mailer these days... DM did ask for
 ML> some volunteers with non-BSO mailers to please test the new code but no
 ML> one responded...


Yeah, I remember, but there is still the problem of netmail,  DB can't read
Synchronet's netmail database or vice versa.  Nor can db read Sync's message
bases


Joe
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