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've used multimail with other BBS mail but not my own.

Have you used readers on Linux? Anything besides MultiMail.

I know your using it on Win; but I use Linux for my BBS and daily stuff unless I'm on work computer which is MacOs.

Anybody else have comments/recommendations in using MultiMail?

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

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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'm not him, but will jump in for my $0.02 worth.

I use it because I like that I can define my editor of choice to use
when writing replies (I use 'nano' on Linux). Also it shows me any new
files that have arrived since last packet. Also makes it easy to stop
if needed and return later to finish reading/writing.

I've used multimail with other BBS mail but not my own.

Have you used readers on Linux? Anything besides MultiMail.

I don't know of any decent Linux alternatives. Long ago I used 'SLMR'
with a DOS emulator, but it was a little awkward, and I greatly prefer
the functionality of MultiMail.

I know your using it on Win; but I use Linux for my BBS and daily stuff unless I'm on work computer which is MacOs.

Same here.

Anybody else have comments/recommendations in using MultiMail?

Yes, see above. ;-) I highly recommend it.



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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.


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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?

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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.



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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.

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