Hello mark,

11 Jul 15 23:16, you wrote to me:

 ml> thanks... i'll have a look but i'm starting to feel like i'm dropping
 ml> back further and further into the early '90s or late '80s :(

Before you think that: the original author spent nearly 20 years getting the 
basic functionality of MBSE working right.  He was more interested in a solid, 
robust basic system (meaning the BBS and its daemons and intergration into 
Linux) than adding a bunch of features.  MBSE is still far, far from finished.

It's an incredibly solid piece of software.  Very, very reliable and 
well-thoughtout.  However, it is not full of fun features like a macro 
language, which most of us aren't concerned about.  Remember, more features 
means more that can break, and I really think MBSE was built on the KISS 
principal.

That doesn't mean, however, over time things can change.  There are a lot of 
undocumented features in MBSE.  I have not the time currently to pour over the 
source code and look at things, but once my living arrangements and employment 
stabilize, I'd like to teach myself C by experimenting with MBSE's source 
code.

There are a lot of things that need to be fixed in MBSE.  For example, if you 
look in MBSE's source code at the procedure to pack message bases for offline 
mail by date, there's just a print line that says "Not implemented
yet".  I 
think that's rather important for me since I have a lot of offline mail users.

I'd REALLY love to set up filebase grouping so I don't have to enter the same 
information for each filebase by hand (I have over 50GB of files I want to put 
in).  For me, that would be an important feature.

--Sean

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