[nos-bbs] Mail handling

[Michael E Fox - N6MEF]

Interesting.  Same question for you, Brian.

So I've got Thunderbird or Evolution or whatever and a radio and TNC.  I'm
just not seeing how that would be used to connect to JNOS over the air.  Can
you provide some details of the setup?

Michael
N6MEF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
> Of Brian
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:46 PM
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> Subject: [nos-bbs] Mail handling
> 
> Bob;
> 
> On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 00:53 -0500, Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty wrote:
> > I pop also my ax25 only bbs like BPQ in that way and reply from
> > Thunderbird with the proper ax25 identity
> > using the smtp server in BPQ so Outpost is not necessary here for ax25
> > mail as it all can be handled by Thunderbird
> > with the proper ax25 identity.
> >
> > Very convenient as I only need one application to handle all kind of
> > mail.
> 
> I do the exact same thing here using Evolution for a client, and LinFBB
> for the BBS. To separate the pops since I pop the same local machine is
> I set FBB to handle pop2 (109), and my internet email pop as pop3 (110).
> 
> I do something similar for SMTP send. One stop shopping - of sorts.
> There I can do anything for packet mail I can do for regular internet
> mail - including attachment handling.
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> they would have incorporated our protocols into their kernel.
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