Subj : Re: Offline Readers
To : Robert Wolfe
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Sep 18 2017 07:47 pm
Re: Re: Offline Readers
By: Robert Wolfe to MATTHEW MUNSON on Mon Sep 18 2017 08:10 pm
> -=> MATTHEW MUNSON wrote to Robert Wolfe <=-
>
> RW> You need to contact William McBrine as he is the developer. I just
> RW> compiled his code.
>
> MM> is he still around?
>
> I am sure he is.
I sent William this email in July of 2011 and never received a response:
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William,
Hi, I'm the author of Synchronet BBS software, one of the few remaining
supported and developed BBS software packages and ever fewer that have internal
QWK support.
Anyway, I was working on the QWKE support in Synchronet (the QWKE support was
very incomplete to date) and was using Multimail (the current source snapshot
of 0.50 from sourceforge) and have been trying to complete the QWKE support in
Multimail (e.g. supporting "To" fields > 25 chars) and have been considering
adding support for Synchronet QWK HEADERS.DAT file (which makes all the QWKE
"standard" and other kludge lines unnecessary). I was curious if you are still
working on Multimail, excepting patches, want to discuss what I've found so far
with QWKE support, etc.?
This email address will work fine for correspondence, but I'm also often in
#synchronet at irc.synchro.net (as digitalman) if you're so inclined.
Thanks for supporting BBSes and QWK!
-Rob
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I then sent a follow-up email to teh SourceForge mailing list for MultiMail and
received this reply from Jim Hanoian:
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Sorry.... I haven't done anything with offline mail readers for several years.
I don't know if William McBrine is even still alive.
Jim
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So if William is around, I'd be happy to work with him on fixing and enhancing
multimail. :-)
