[nos-bbs] do NOT use MIME code IF !!! (update)

[maiko at pcsinternet.ca]

Well maybe not quite, perhaps I over stated this ...

A couple of sysops actually like it the way it is, and yeah,
I can see why. We have not 'destroyed' the original data at
all, simply rearranged the way it's presented, that's all.

But I will make a mime decode version of RM (read message)
and V (verbose message) for those that don't want to have
the SMTP server modify the mailbox.

The latest version is under rsync, please read the release
history. For those already using the modified smtp.c source
module, you will now be required to edit your makefile and
add a definition in order to enable this feature.

Maiko / VE4KLM

. On 2022-04-22 19:58, maiko at pcsinternet.ca wrote:
> I am an idiot !
> 
> Only use this code if you have an end point JNOS system, and
> you are NOT forwarding mailboxes to anyone else, and you have
> no desire to use a external mail client !!!!
> 
> Do NOT use this on a production system, here is why :
> 
> The way my thought process works is that sometimes I am blinded
> by a concept, so much that in the process of working on things,
> and refining them, I tend to overlook some basic concepts ...
> 
> For instance, the MIME code modifies the contents of any user
> mailbox, meaning if you forward that mailbox to other systems
> then you have 'destroyed' the original data. I mean other
> systems will get a nice looking gibberish free email, but
> the attached files will only exist on the original system.
> 
> This might be great if you don't care to forward MIME, but no !
> 
> SO, even if this 'works', I should never have put it where I
> did, instead it should be 'moved' to the mail reader portion
> of the code. This is actually in the smtp processing - bad.
> 
> So please do NOT use this live or in production.
> 
> I need to redesign WHERE in the code this should go.
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> Maiko / VE4KLM