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    From Rick Smith@1:105/10.1 to All on Sat Jan 30 15:29:14 2021
    Greetings All!

    Just installed DB on os2 so far so good, very good looking, functioning program... Still a lot to read about but really like how easy it was to get installed etc... Strong work!



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    Regards,


    Rick Smith (Nitro)

    ... Citation for slow BBSing: Going v.32bis in a v.FC lane
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    * Origin: ----> Abacus Sysop Point --->>>>bbs.abon.us:2323 (1:105/10.1)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Rick Smith on Sat Jan 30 20:33:20 2021
    On 30 Jan 21 15:29:14, Rick Smith said the following to All:

    Just installed DB on os2 so far so good, very good looking, functioning program... Still a lot to read about but really like how easy it was to get installed etc... Strong work!

    Thanks,

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Rick Smith@1:105/10.1 to Nick Andre on Sat Jan 30 17:54:48 2021
    Greetings Nick!

    Saturday January 30 2021 20:33, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

    * Forwarded from area 'dbridge'
    On 30 Jan 21 15:29:14, Rick Smith said the following to All:

    Just installed DB on os2 so far so good, very good looking,
    functioning program... Still a lot to read about but really like
    how easy it was to get installed etc... Strong work!

    Thanks,

    Welcome! Is is true that I can only have 200 msg areas on my system using D'Bridge? Someone just mentioned that to me.



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    Regards,


    Rick Smith (Nitro)

    ... A bad day BBSing is better that a good day at work
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: ----> Abacus Sysop Point --->>>>bbs.abon.us:2323 (1:105/10.1)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Rick Smith on Sat Jan 30 22:34:30 2021
    On 30 Jan 21 17:54:48, Rick Smith said the following to Nick Andre:

    Welcome! Is is true that I can only have 200 msg areas on my system using D'Bridge? Someone just mentioned that to me.

    If you are using QuickBBS/Hudson storage, yes. If you are using GoldBase, the limit is 500. Its not so much a limitation of D'Bridge but with those specific storage formats themselves.

    If you use *.MSG storage you may have 32,000+ areas.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Rick Smith@1:105/10.1 to Nick Andre on Sun Jan 31 09:39:52 2021
    Greetings Nick!

    Saturday January 30 2021 22:34, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

    * Forwarded from area 'dbridge'
    On 30 Jan 21 17:54:48, Rick Smith said the following to Nick Andre:

    Welcome! Is is true that I can only have 200 msg areas on my
    system using D'Bridge? Someone just mentioned that to me.

    If you are using QuickBBS/Hudson storage, yes. If you are using
    GoldBase, the limit is 500. Its not so much a limitation of D'Bridge
    but with those specific storage formats themselves.

    Thanks for clearing that up. I did read your docs (also very nice)... I dont think either of my BBS's will work with DB area limitation, so I either start another or use it as a point.. I cant delete it, I like it too much...

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    Regards,


    Rick Smith (Nitro)

    ... A bad day BBSing is better that a good day at work
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: ----> Abacus Sysop Point --->>>>bbs.abon.us:2323 (1:105/10.1)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Rick Smith on Sun Jan 31 13:04:08 2021
    On 31 Jan 21 09:39:52, Rick Smith said the following to Nick Andre:

    Thanks for clearing that up. I did read your docs (also very nice)... I don think either of my BBS's will work with DB area limitation, so I either sta another or use it as a point.. I cant delete it, I like it too much...

    You are more than welcome to use a 3rd-party tosser with D'Bridge; there are many Sysops with Squish/JAM based BBS's that use one this way and just leave the mailer exchanging things via BinkD.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Michael Pierce@1:105/81 to Nick Andre on Mon Feb 1 12:08:52 2021
    Hello Nick!

    31 Jan 21 13:04, you wrote to Rick Smith:

    On 31 Jan 21 09:39:52, Rick Smith said the following to Nick Andre:

    Thanks for clearing that up. I did read your docs (also very
    nice)... I don think either of my BBS's will work with DB area
    limitation, so I either sta another or use it as a point.. I cant
    delete it, I like it too much...

    I agree, its nice

    You are more than welcome to use a 3rd-party tosser with D'Bridge;
    there are many Sysops with Squish/JAM based BBS's that use one this
    way and just leave the mailer exchanging things via BinkD.

    was wondering what parameters get passed when using external tosser?
    my external command looks like
    c:\db\hptmail.cmd
    which looks like
    hpt toss scan pack afix

    I am getting the following error message
    unzip: cannot find either C:DBINBOUND18608100.tos or C:DBINBOUND18608100.tos.zip

    yet the hptconfig file has proper inbound c:\db\inbound

    my unpack command looks like unpack "unzip -j -Loqq $a $f -d $p" 0 504b0304

    Thanks for any ideas

    Michael

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Michael Pierce on Mon Feb 1 16:07:58 2021
    On 01 Feb 21 12:08:52, Michael Pierce said the following to Nick Andre:

    You are more than welcome to use a 3rd-party tosser with D'Bridge; there are many Sysops with Squish/JAM based BBS's that use one this way and just leave the mailer exchanging things via BinkD.

    was wondering what parameters get passed when using external tosser?

    There are no parameters, because you are having an external tosser handle all mail tossing. D'Bridge would only manage building the Queue in this case for actually getting things transferred out.

    The tosser must specifically support the D'Bridge outgoing Queue, or it must create "Arcmail" attachments, which are Netmail *.MSG files with the Arcmail bundles as attachments (ie. in the subject-line with attributes Kill/Sent, Kill File). When the tosser is finished, D'Bridge should be told to rescan the Queue via. *R or the creation of the dummy file DBRIDGE.RSN (ReScanNow)

    When a tosser uses Arcmail mode, the outgoing Arcmail bundles *MUST NOT* be placed in the D'Bridge Queue or Packets directory.

    Be sure D'Bridge is configured for external tosser mode by going to Config-Packet/Mail Control, Inbound Mail Handling, External.

    I cannot provide tech support for HPT or Info-Zip's Unzip.exe program; you may wish to check in that echo. I suspect you will be asked to confirm the mail is actually being received and sitting in the Inbound directory as well as show log snippets etc.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
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