Hello Flavio.

22 Jun 04 14:08, you wrote to me:

 MG>> The problem with Blue Wave was that most of the offline mail doors were
 MG>> hopelessly broken with Y2k, except for a few BBS packages that had
 MG>> native doors written into them. Mystic could run Bluewave, if the doors
 MG>> worked. Unfortunately the author has disappeared, and hasn't released
 MG>> the source code, so it can't be fixed.

 FB>    Yeah, but anyway, I've been using my BW door in my RA without major
 FB>    problems (Just the message dates look a little odd).

That's the problem. It messes up the message headers, and that can cause
message bases to become corrupt. When you allow that to occur in echomail,
the messages could then corrupt message bases on other's systems, and/or
could be filtered out of the echomail stream by mail hubs because of this
potential harm.

As far as I know, only Renegade's and MBSE's native BW doors work properly.

 FB>    Also, there's OLMS, which is a QWK and BW door that has an active
 FB> author   and it works fine also.
 FB>    Is there any way to use these RA doors into Mystic?

While I won't say it's impossible, when I looked at OLMS, there were a few
problems. The biggest problem is that it's tightly integrated with RA, to
the point of exclusion of other BBS packages. It looks specifically for the
CONFIG.RA, MGROUPS.RA, and MESSAGES.RA files, along with the RA environment
variable.

I suppose one could set up a simplified version of RA for the sole purpose
of providing the message base information to OLMS, so that you could use
OLMS under Mystic BBS, but that seems a rather convoluted and tedious route
to go, as one would have to re-type all the message base information that
was set up under Mystic's config into the RA setup.

OLMS also only supports Hudson and JAM messages bases; there's no Squish or
*.MSG support, and it's shareware version will only support 2000 message
areas, while the "professional" version supports 10,000. Older
versions of OLMS were crippleware, and would stop working after 60 days if
not registered. 

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