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to: RON MITCHELL
from: ANDREW LEARY
date: 1996-10-16 16:25:00
subject: Fido packets via internet email

-=> Quoting Ron Mitchell to Herman Hanschke <=-
 RM> I send BRE packets via the Internet automatically using EMail.  All I
 RM> use is NetMgr, some creative cmd files, and a couple of different
 RM> extraction utilities since the guy I send to keeps bouncing back and
 RM> forth between MIME and UUENCODE. 
 RM> Basically just set up a user name for the packets to come to and from,
 RM> have NetMgr scan for those names and export the packets to a file,
 RM> then check for the existence of that file and if it's there run your
 RM> decoder on it.  Delete or move the file after you are done with it. 
 RM> Then you handle it like any other mail packet.
 RM> Outbound is just a reversal of the above process.
I'd be interested in seeing how you do this.  I already use NetMgr
(great program), so I'd just need to see your .CMD files.  Can you make
them available for FREQ or ftp somewhere?
Later,
Andrew
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