Greetings,

Back in the 90's when my BBS was originally online I had a offline reader
setup that would get messages from my BBS and I could read and respond
offline. I have asked in other networks but havent got it figured out yet,
if anyone knows of a well documented setup (or willing to provide docs) let
me know please...

Regards,

Nitro

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* Origin: Abacus BBS (77:1/130)

Nitro wrote to All <=-

Back in the 90's when my BBS was originally online I had a
offline reader setup that would get messages from my BBS and I
could read and respond offline. I have asked in other networks
but havent got it figured out yet, if anyone knows of a well
documented setup (or willing to provide docs) let me know
please...

I think the "modern" one these days is MultiMail. I use it and
think it's great. Has versions for Windows and Linux, maybe more.
A quick google will find it for you. I recommend it.



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I think the "modern" one these days is MultiMail. I use it and

Thank you is this for qwk or can I use it to poll my system like as a point? Will mystic automatically put together qwk packets for a user (me) and let me poll for them or do you have to logon download then login to upload replies?

Regards,

Nitro

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/22 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Abacus BBS (77:1/130)

Back in the 90's when my BBS was originally online I had a offline reader setup that would get messages from my BBS and I could read and respond offline. I have asked in other networks but havent got it figured out yet, if anyone knows of a well documented setup (or willing to provide docs) let me know please...

There are two ways of doing this.

1 - (The harder way) You can set up a point node that polls your bbs for mail as if it is it's own bbs. This requires setting up a mailer, tosser, editor etc., just like a bbs.

2 - (The easier way) QWK. I see you are running Mystic which has built in support for QWK offline messaging. Multimail is a cross platform offline
mailer reader. You simply download your qwk packets via FTP or xmodem and
read them with your offline mail reader like multimail. You then upload your replies back to your bbs. Check out the QWK menu in Mystic's message menu.

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Nitro wrote to Gamgee <=-

I think the "modern" one these days is MultiMail. I use it and

Thank you is this for qwk or can I use it to poll my system like
as a point? Will mystic automatically put together qwk packets
for a user (me) and let me poll for them or do you have to logon
download then login to upload replies?

Yes, it's for QWK and doesn't function like a point. In Mystic
you'd go into the QWK configuration and choose which message
areas you want to follow, and then when you download a packet it
will give you all the new messages in those areas. Yes, you'd
have to login to DL and then login again to UL your replies.



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