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.
