Subj : SR13
To : Joe Delahaye
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Jun 20 2017 10:59 pm
On 2017 Jun 20 16:58:46, you wrote to me:
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 not really configurable other than maybe defining the
ML>> directory to use... sbbsecho uses it to communicate with other
ML>> non-mailer software, too... interbbs games have to use MSG format as
ML>> they don't know BSO and can't make FTN PKTs... this is also how
ML>> sbbsecho communicates with non-BSO mailers... he could probably also
ML>> make it directly compatible with dB... problem is how many folks are
ML>> still using a non-BSO mailer these days... DM did ask for some
ML>> volunteers with non-BSO mailers to please test the new code but no
ML>> one responded...
JD> Yeah, I remember, but there is still the problem of netmail, DB can't
JD> read Synchronet's netmail database or vice versa. Nor can db read
JD> Sync's message bases
that's where the MSG base comes in right there in the middle...
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