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|    Alan Ianson to Andrew Alt    |
|    echo name display in mm    |
|    08 Aug 19 12:53:44    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.0 5d658362       REPLY: 1:261/38.0 973e2292       TZUTC: -0700       CHARSET: LATIN-1       -=> Andrew Alt wrote to Alan Ianson <=-               AI> You may have better luck with BW or OMEN format offline packets,        AI> possibly QWKE packets may help also.               AA> But how different is QWK from QWKE?              I'm not sure exactly, I think it's an extention of QWK.               AA> On the MultiMail GitHub repo, I saw in the HISTORY that QWKE was        AA> supported, so I submitted a doc patch to mention that in the        AA> README and the man page. This was the reply from the maintainer:               AA> https://github.com/wmcbrine/MultiMail/pull/18#issuecomment-519594040              I think that QWKE needs to be enabled when a QWK packet is created and that may        not be the case with BBBS but I haven't investigated.              A QWK packet that has QWKE enabled can have longer To:, From: and Subject:       lines and possibly other things as well, like the area names.              On the MultiMail website at sourceforge.net or wmcbrine.com/mmail there is       quite a bit of info about QWK/QWKE and other supported formats that can give       you a better idea than I can provide.               Ttyl :-),        Al              ... My computer has EMS... Won't you help?       -+- MultiMail/Linux v0.52              --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4        * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 57/0 103/705 153/250 154/10 203/0 220/70 221/0       SEEN-BY: 226/17 227/114 229/275 354 426 452 616 981 1014 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 400 250/3 267/800 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/0       SEEN-BY: 770/1 100 330 340 772/0 1 210 500 2452/250 3828/7       PATH: 153/757 250 770/1 280/464 229/426           |
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