Subj : Re: DAEMON MODE
To : Daryl Stout
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Mon Apr 21 2014 05:53 pm
-=> Daryl Stout wrote to NICHOLAS BOEL <=-
DS> Nick...
NB>If you care to have successful connections from unlisted nodes, maybe
ookin
NB>at another mailer would be an option for you?
DS> I am considering Argus. Marc Lewis came into the system remotely, and
DS> noted I may have a CORRUPT EXE with IREX for Windows. You could NEVER
DS> get the system to save the entry "accept connects from unlisted
DS> systems". While you could do it in the same session...when you exited
DS> REXCFGW, and reloaded it, the paramenter was back to "NO".
If you read the docs that "option" is only available in the 1000 node server
version.
NB>Binkd is a great mailer, otherwise I hear FMail for Windows is pretty good
NB>and has more of a GUI configuration than binkd does, I believe.
DS> One of my connects for QWK Networking gets the stuff transferred via
DS> FTP through IREX...the rest of them are via BinkP. If I could get it to
DS> where folks could connect to me, instead of my manually polling 4 times
DS> a day, that'd be great. I don't think Comcast is blocking the comport.
NB>Which, IMO, is bullshit. You shouldn't make people pay for a product you're
NB>going to support. Continued support is part of the reason you pay for a
NB>product. If you're not going to support it anymore, open source it, or sell
NB>to someone who will continue to support it. That's just how I feel about
t,
NB>anyways.
I tried.... but we did have a nice conversation via email.
