Subj : BBS Mail through email client?
To : Tristan B. Kildaire
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Nov 18 2016 05:36 pm
18 Nov 16 14:03, you wrote to Fidonet.BBS_INTERNET:
TK> Is there a way to setup your email client to fetch your BBS mail?
that depends on the BBS software... it is likely also limited to only private
mail... private mail being FTN netmail which is similar to internet email...
FTN echomail is similar to internet news... some email clients also function as
news clients... some BBS systems offer their echomail areas in a news format...
the most common "problem" is that a BBS maintains the last read pointers of its
users... news cannot do that as there is no facillity to pass that information
from the client back to the server for storage... news clients maintain their
own last read pointers...
)\/(ark
Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
... Microsoft is suing Apple 'cause they have employees too.
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