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  • Re: MultiMail

    From Khronos@VERT/CWSHACK to Amessyroom on Friday, January 30, 2026 13:10:53
    Amessyroom wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Daryl Stout on Thu Jan 29 2026 10:36 am

    I noticed you use MultiMail. Why do you prefer it over logging in to
    your BBS to read messages?

    It has taken me some time to get the hang of using Multimail, but now
    that I have been using it for a while it is starting to grow on me.
    One reason why I like it is that I can use my editor of choice for
    message replies.

    Anybody else have comments/recommendations in using MultiMail?

    From what I can tell so far the only thing I have found challenging to
    do in Multimail is replying to a sender privately via NetMail.
    From what I have experienced the only way I can do this is to copy down
    the sender information out of the message and go to the e-mail area and
    fire up a fresh message to them.
    I do not seem to have the option to replying to a message from an echo
    itself privately.


    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ telnet://cwshack.ddns.net:2330
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Amessyroom on Saturday, January 31, 2026 08:35:50
    Amessyroom wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Daryl Stout on Thu Jan 29 2026 10:36 am

    I noticed you use MultiMail. Why do you prefer it over logging in to
    your BBS to read messages?

    I prefer console text editors, and like being able to bounce up and
    down through different echoes reading new messages.

    It's a bit of a throwback for me -- this setup is virtually identical
    to what I used back in 1992 when I got my first BlueWave door for my
    BBS. Back then, it was busy all the time with people reading messages
    online. Once I got the door in place, my callers per day shot up and
    the quality of messages improved.

    Have you used readers on Linux? Anything besides MultiMail.

    Just MultiMail - my daily driver laptop was running Ubuntu, and I
    duplicated the setup. I used nano instead of Qedit, my DOS editor.



    Anybody else have comments/recommendations in using MultiMail?

    ...It's too bad ignorance isn't painful.

    ---
    Synchronet Too Lazy BBS - toolazy.synchro.net:2323

    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Khronos on Saturday, January 31, 2026 08:35:50
    Khronos wrote to Amessyroom <=-

    From what I can tell so far the only thing I have found challenging to
    do in Multimail is replying to a sender privately via NetMail.
    From what I have experienced the only way I can do this is to copy down the sender information out of the message and go to the e-mail area and fire up a fresh message to them.
    I do not seem to have the option to replying to a message from an echo itself privately.

    I think that depends on the network and the BBS, but I've been able to
    send fido netmail via Multimail. DOVEnet uses QWK technology, I don't
    think that works with sending netmail through DOVEnet.



    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.
  • From Khronos@VERT/CWSHACK to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, January 31, 2026 12:40:46
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Khronos <=-

    Khronos wrote to Amessyroom <=-

    From what I can tell so far the only thing I have found challenging to
    do in Multimail is replying to a sender privately via NetMail.
    From what I have experienced the only way I can do this is to copy down the sender information out of the message and go to the e-mail area and fire up a fresh message to them.
    I do not seem to have the option to replying to a message from an echo itself privately.

    I think that depends on the network and the BBS, but I've been able to send fido netmail via Multimail. DOVEnet uses QWK technology, I don't think that works with sending netmail through DOVEnet.

    I was trying to send mail through an ftn.
    I think the reason why my client has trouble doing this is that when I
    am reading an echo it only shows the echo number on the bbs such as 200x
    for Dovenet, 300x for Fidonet and 400x for Fsxnet.
    Based on this fact the MM client does not know that it is interacting
    with an ftn based area so this is mostlikely why netmail can't be sent / received through the area directly.
    When reading ftn based areas the only way I know what system the
    messages are coming from is to read the origin line at the bottom of the message.
    So the main issue I am having is that when using qwk with Multimail
    every echo looks like a local area even though it may be connected to a network at the end of the day.



    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    = Synchronet = .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.

    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ telnet://cwshack.ddns.net:2330
  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLTBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, February 03, 2026 17:47:27
    When I was a caller, BBSing was a late night activity - once
    other callers had gone to bed and it was slightly easier to get
    through.

    Nowadays, I've spent so much time working with ham radio and square
    dance related material, I rarely have time for the BBS.

    Since running a BBS, it's been a morning, coffee and breakfast
    habit. I'm sitting here with a cup of coffee and a fried egg on
    toast, as a matter of fact.

    When I do logon, I end up doing QWK Mail, and that's about it. I
    do try to update the weather and system bulletin data at least twice
    a day, though.

    Daryl

    ... Quiplash: Your front bumper sticker doesn't jive with the back one.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS -- Little Rock, Arkansas
  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLTBBS to Amessyroom on Tuesday, February 03, 2026 17:47:27
    Anybody else have comments/recommendations in using MultiMail?

    I logon to download the packets, and it's easier for me to do the QWK
    mail first. Then, I can skip through the messages I don't need to read, although I'm still joined to a particular message area (weather related).

    Daryl

    ... Jetschpiel - The animated "safety speech" given on airlines & ignored.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS -- Little Rock, Arkansas