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ENHANCED VERSION OF MAIL MANAGER:
To put it as simply as possible, the amount of time and money required to
properly support the widespread use of our door has turned out to be far
greater than we ever imagined.
Future releases which take Mail Manager beyond where it is today will be
released as a new package, which will be our continuing effort to provide
additional features and enhancements to our door. This enhanced package
will have a $25 registration fee to try to recoup some of the costs of
supporting our development efforts. We're hoping for the first release
of the enhanced version sometime in the summer of 1992.
We will continue to support the "free" Mail Manager as we have in the
past, and will continue with any bug fixes and/or modifications for
compatibility with future releases of RBBS-PC. But no additional
capabilities will be added to the basic Mail Manager package.
Some of the things that are in beta test for the enhanced version *NOW*
are:
- Conferences can be configured to allow the user to automatically
join from within the door, rather than forcing them to be joined
from the BBS.
- Support for all three graphics types across the board (N)one,
A)scii, and C)olor). This includes bulletins and news files!
- Bi-directional protocols supported: .REP packet uploaded
while downloading a .QWK will be detected and automatically
processed without further intervention by the caller.
- Node-specific .CFG files supported. Will automatically look
first for MAILMGRx.CFG (where 'x' is the node number specified
on the command line). If no MAILMGRx.CFG found, defaults back
to MAILMGR.CFG.
- "Automatic mode" for local use - can now call Mail Manager
with a special command line switch to quickly extract and
compress all new messages from your selected conferences
without keyboard intervention. If *.REP present, that will
also be processed.
- Fido-Style *.MSG message bases supported! New configuration
options to handle this message format.
Other stuff is in the works.
("HEY GUYS! What happened to the 'May-June' release of the enhanced
version??") Well... what can we say. Properly supporting Fido-style
*.MSG's is taking a little more effort, testing, and time than we had
originally hoped, and we do want to throw proper NETMAIL support in
there while we're at it. Rather than give everyone a half-baked
package, we feel that we should make a valiant effort at getting it
right initially, and getting it tested in a few other environments.
If you want to be one of the first recipients of the enhanced version,
we are accepting pre-registrations. We'll ship it to you on disk with
registration code as soon as it becomes available. Please see the
pre-registration form on the next page if you're interested.
PRE-REGISTRATION FOR MAIL MANAGER ENHANCED VERSION:
Name: __________________________________________________
Address: __________________________________________________
City/State/Zip: __________________________________________________
The version # of Mail Manager that I am using currently is: __1.34__
BBS Name (as you'd like it to appear in the registration information):
______________________________________________________________________
Specify disk size: [ ] 720K 3 1/2" [ ] 360K 5 1/4"
[ ] 1.2M 5 1/4"
Comments (optional): _________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
OPTIONAL: BBS phone number and/or Zone:Net/Node ID (for our own use,
in case we feel it necessary to contact you directly).
______________________________
OPTIONAL: User name/password combination one of us could use to log
onto your system and post you a message or send you a file
as a first-time caller.
______________________________
Registration pricing includes mailed copy of initial enhanced version
when released (or current version if registration received after initial
release). One registration covers all nodes of your RBBS-PC.
Send check or money order for $25.00 in U.S. Funds to:
Newark Connections
P.O. Box 2023
Heath, OH 43056