Subj : Terminal programs
To   : Shurato
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sat Nov 25 2023 07:08 am

Hello Shurato!

24 Nov 23 23:30, you wrote to paulie420:

 pa>> Hmmmm - whats this iemsi??? Haven't seen that before. :P

 Sh> I don't know what the acronym stands for, but it's a method of a
 Sh> system and user to identify eachother without any interaction.  It
 Sh> sends my name, location and BBS info (as I have it configured) and
 Sh> send me the users name, location and terminal info (as they have it
 Sh> configured) for really fast logins.  I'm not sure if it has other
 Sh> purposes, but EleBBS supports it by default.  It can even let users
 Sh> log in new if they don't have an accout.

IEMSI is Interactive Electronic Mail Standards Identification.  It was first 
implemented in FrontDoor's Terminal for clients and RemoteAccess for BBS 
software.  As EleBBS is a clone of RA 2.50, it make sense that it is supported 
there as well.

Andrew

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