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   BBS_CARNIVAL      Your BBS software rules and others suck      5,461 messages   

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   Dumas Walker to PHIL KIMBLE   
   Offline Mail Doors   
   22 May 18 18:36:00   
   
   > I am running Mystic 1.12.  It has builtin QWK & QWKE capabilities so I may   
   jus   
   > end up creating a pretty screen to call it done. I played with several doors   
   > this weekend. It seems as if almost all read the bbs config file so none of   
   > them will work (true integration) with Mystic unless I invest in the manual   
   > housekeeping.   
      
   Yeah, most message download doors did have some sort of "hook" in them that   
   made them work with specific bbs software.  They are not as portable as   
   other doors.   
      
   That said, some BBS software did have "adaptor" software written that would   
   allow offline mail doors to work with their software.  Back before QWK   
   doors were written for, or QWK support added to, GT Power, some sysops were   
   able to use something called "Megamail" (I think?) which created offline   
   packets for users to read using "Megareader" (again, I think?).  I cannot   
   remember what BBS software that door was originally meant to work with.   
   Been a long time.  :)   
      
   Mike   
      
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