Hello everybody!

I am working on a couple of things for MBSE in my spare time, so if anyone has any requests, please let me know.

1. Support for sending mail packets uncompressed. This is an option in some other packages.
2. Support for editing file descriptions in the file database.
3. Support for literal IPv6 addresses in the mailer; currently IPv6 is only supported if a node has an AAAA record when the hostname is resolved.

Regards,

Andrew


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1. Support for sending mail packets uncompressed. This is an option in some other packages.
2. Support for editing file descriptions in the file database.
3. Support for literal IPv6 addresses in the mailer; currently IPv6 is only supported if a node has an AAAA record when the hostname is resolved.
Andrew

QWK networking, perhaps? ;)

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On 05/03/15, Andrew Leary said the following...

I am working on a couple of things for MBSE in my spare time, so if
anyone has any requests, please let me know.

I had a quick look at 1.0.4 a couple months ago and noticed a problem with the chat server. I had just installed MBSE so maybe it was a misconfiguration of some sort but if I pressed 4 (I think, roughly anyway) from mbmon the chat window didn't come up fully and I couldn't get back to mbmon so I hit "<ctrl> c" and that crashed mbtask. I hope I've explained that in a way you can understand.

Another concern I had with MBSE is that (when I ran MBSE) I spent a lot of
time in mbsetup, mostly just correcting typos or just looking things over.
When I entered certain areas of mbsetup the status in the upper right corner would change to busy or closed even if I was just looking around. I think it would be better if MBSE just reread it's config if and when it needs to do
that rather than closing the BBS and mailer down when I am probably just looking around the config.

That's just my $0.02. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hello Andrew.

03 May 15 20:29, you wrote to all:

1. Support for sending mail packets uncompressed. This is an option
in some other packages.

MBSE can already do this.

Mbsetup, Node setup (7), Choose a node, General Setup (1), Pack mail (12) needs to be set to no.

My system hasn't been compressing packets for the past year.


Stephen

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Hello Stephen!

04 May 15 15:31, you wrote to me:

1. Support for sending mail packets uncompressed. This is an
option in some other packages.

MBSE can already do this.

Mbsetup, Node setup (7), Choose a node, General Setup (1), Pack mail
(12) needs to be set to no.

My system hasn't been compressing packets for the past year.

Hmmm... Don't know how I missed that one. So what's missing is the ability for nodes to activate that option via an AreaFix request. That should be easy to add.

Andrew

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Hello Alan!

Sunday May 03 2015 21:07, you wrote to Andrew Leary:

Another concern I had with MBSE is that (when I ran MBSE) I spent a
lot of time in mbsetup, mostly just correcting typos or just looking
things over. When I entered certain areas of mbsetup the status in the
upper right corner would change to busy or closed even if I was just
looking around. I think it would be better if MBSE just reread it's
config if and when it needs to do that rather than closing the BBS and mailer down when I am probably just looking around the config.

That's just my $0.02. :)

The reason why mbse stops or closes is to prevent any issues with users/sysops coming through while the system parameters data files etc are being updated.

It has no way of knowing if you are just looking and treats all as possible changes.

While I have never looked in detail I cannot say I have noticed it doing that in any area of non-importance assuming there is any!

Mbse does not support multi node functioning as in having multi copyies running
useing the same databases in different VM's running it.

When I was running in that instance I cheated by building the mbse data areas on and for each load but this was not for mail/file processing as that was held
until a user/mail session ended.

I have at least for the moment stopped doing it this way as since I have switched to a boot SSD drive I have not seen a performance/security reason to do so but that could always change as I am considering moving mbse processing to Z/OS unix but for that its really me just playing around and use Z/OS normally doing big iron stuff on smaller iron.

Well got to find some things for keeping me busy now that I am retired !

Vince

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Hello Andrew!

Sunday May 03 2015 20:29, you wrote to All:

Hello everybody!

I am working on a couple of things for MBSE in my spare time, so if
anyone has any requests, please let me know.

1. Support for sending mail packets uncompressed. This is an option
in some other packages. 2. Support for editing file descriptions in
the file database. 3. Support for literal IPv6 addresses in the
mailer; currently IPv6 is only supported if a node has an AAAA record
when the hostname is resolved.

Support for reprocessing mail in bad area/s if/when area has been set up - In fact with an option should set up new mail area same as it does with files e.g., autocreate .


The editing file descriptions along with some kind of limiting the type of characters allowed e.g., special char that is restricted by sysop would be very
useful judging by some of the crap that is inside some file descriptions issued
by some uploaders !


Vince

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On 05/05/15, Vince Coen said the following...

Well got to find some things for keeping me busy now that I am retired !

I'll have to read your message again before I can comment and I must go to
work now but I will say Congratulations on your retirement. Glad you made it and hope you enjoy it :)

All the best.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hello Andrew.

04 May 15 03:22, you wrote to me:

1. Support for sending mail packets uncompressed. This is an
option in some other packages.

MBSE can already do this.
Mbsetup, Node setup (7), Choose a node, General Setup (1), Pack
mail (12) needs to be set to no.

My system hasn't been compressing packets for the past year.

Hmmm... Don't know how I missed that one. So what's missing is the ability for nodes to activate that option via an AreaFix request.
That should be easy to add.

Yes.

What I would like to see is "Pass-through" echomail area's.





Stephen

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Hello Stephen!

05 May 15 17:53, you wrote to me:

Hmmm... Don't know how I missed that one. So what's missing is
the ability for nodes to activate that option via an AreaFix
request. That should be easy to add.

Yes.

What I would like to see is "Pass-through" echomail area's.

For now you should be able to to approximate that by setting very low purge limits; like 1 day. It's not a true pass-through but it will limit the amount of space used for message bases.

Andrew

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On 05/03/15, Alan Ianson said the following...

I had a quick look at 1.0.4 a couple months ago and noticed a problem
with the chat server. I had just installed MBSE so maybe it was a misconfiguration of some sort but if I pressed 4 (I think, roughly
anyway) from mbmon the chat window didn't come up fully and I couldn't
get back to mbmon so I hit "<ctrl> c" and that crashed mbtask. I hope
I've explained that in a way you can understand.

Scrap that. I have been looking over MBSE again and after getting it setup
more fully that isn't happening anymore. I'm not sure exactly what I changed
to make it work.. but it works as expected. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hello Alan!

23 May 15 20:02, you wrote to you:

I had a quick look at 1.0.4 a couple months ago and noticed a
problem with the chat server. I had just installed MBSE so maybe
it was a misconfiguration of some sort but if I pressed 4 (I
think, roughly anyway) from mbmon the chat window didn't come up
fully and I couldn't get back to mbmon so I hit "<ctrl> c" and
that crashed mbtask. I hope I've explained that in a way you can
understand.

Scrap that. I have been looking over MBSE again and after getting it
setup more fully that isn't happening anymore. I'm not sure exactly
what I changed to make it work.. but it works as expected. :)

Glad to hear that. I haven't touched the code for the chat server, so it would probably take a while to debug any issues with that.

Andrew

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