Subj : Re: External mailer
To : Marceline Jones
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sat Feb 20 2021 04:58 pm
-> I understand that my version of WC5 is a Windows 32-bit GUI application.
-> However my version is apparently not WINServer (as detailed in its connectio
-> banner). (Notice from the following banners that one says WINServer and the
-> other does not).
-> My banner:
-> ==================================================
-> Wildcat! for Win95/NT (c) 1995,96 Mustang Software, Inc. All Rights Reserve
-> Registration number: 00-0000. v5.00. Node: 1.
-> ==================================================
-> Wildcat 5.3:
-> ==================================================
-> Wildcat! Interactive Net Server (c) 1999 Santronics Software, Inc.
-> Registration number: 00-0000 v5.3.449 (Apr 26 2000) Node: 1
-> ==================================================
Yeah, your version required the wcICP (Wildcat! Internet Connectivity
Pack) addon which basically makes it WINServer. I believe that startin
with 5.3, that was included in the package from that version on.
-> Does SexPOTS work with virtual modems (eg. an inbound call via TCP/IP) ?
It could, but it was designed for use with programs like Mystic or
Synchronet for Windows that do not natively have modem code built in,
but can handle telnet sessions. Which in essence would make it a dialup
to telnet shim of sorts.
-> IJ> Now, as I said, I have been around since day 1 of WC5, not WC4, I have
-> IJ> seen a few things. I have talked about BGFax running as a frontend to
-> IJ> WC5... I used it and it worked fine. It's been 25 years and I don't
-> IJ> recall how it did it but all I know was that it was easy. Moreover, I
-> IJ> was on the beta team for InterMail and they were working on a mailer
-> IJ> that compatible with WC5 but it never made it into production... The
-> IJ> author, Peter, went MIA...
Yeah, Dale Barnes is the current author of InterMail and InterEcho.
There WAS a third party mailer that worked like PX/WINS called
Mail-Ennium/32, but it went the way of the dodo.
-> Is InterMail a Frontdoor clone ? (it looks like a lot like Frontdoor).
Originally based on FrontDoor code, yes.
-> Does Platinum Xpress support BinkP ?
No. It only supports modem or virtual modem (via Netserial)
connections. I use PX/WINS side by side with Internet Rex which handles
my binkp transfers.
-> If "pxmail.exe" only works with Platinum Xpress then it is no good to me.
PXMAIL.EXE is the command line version of PXECHO.EXE basically. It
allows you to scan and toss mail packets from the command line, which
PXECHO.EXE apparently does not let you do.
... Paper cut; Insulting Tagline.
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