Hello Bo Holt!

** On Wednesday 21.02.24 - 19:07, Bo Holt wrote to All:

I'm looking for suggestions for an offline mail reader, mostly for the editing capabilities... something with fairly straight-forward methods
of quoting messages to which you reply. [...]

Take a look at OpenXP!

https://openxp.kolico.ca

It has superb editing features and message database capability.


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Hello Bo,

21 Feb 24 19:07, you wrote to All:

Greetings!

I'm looking for suggestions for an offline mail reader, mostly for the editing capabilities... something with fairly straight-forward
methods of quoting messages to which you reply. I do most of my
BBSing on an 80286 running DOS 5, but I also sometimes use a Windows
10 box... possibly macOS but mainly the DOS 5 and Windows 10 OSes.
It's been so long since I've used one, I don't remember what I used to
run and unaware if anything new has come out.

BlueWave/DOS + y2k patch

a modern one is Multimail for Win/OSX/Linux

Regards,
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** On Monday 04.03.24 - 01:16, August Abolins wrote to Bo Holt:

[...] and making the message address to ALLFIX.

Sorry.. that part SHOULD have been written as:

[...] and making the message addressed TO: ALLFIX.

^^^^^^^^^ ^^^


And.. while I'm at it, I just wanted to say that OpenXP that I
mentioned earlier, is a project that is still currently
supported:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/

It's quite a cool experience using it as a point user. You can
retain specific messages, purge everything else after a set age
or qty per echo. The S)earch capability in the system for
messages is awesome.


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Hello Bo,

03 Mar 24 10:41, you wrote to me:

You wouldn't happen to know where to download the BlueWave for DOS and
the Y2K patch, would you? I poked around a little bit yesterday
before I had to leave, but all I could find were broken links :/

they are available on my bbs
change.zip
bw-y2k.zip
+ the bluewave dos which i don't remember the filename of :)

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What I consider complete? Something with a nice editing system as quoting messages is not straight forward on some built-in editors LOL

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Hello Bo Holt!

** On Saturday 09.03.24 - 00:59, Bo Holt wrote to August Abolins:

What I consider complete? Something with a nice editing
system as quoting messages is not straight forward on some
built-in editors LOL

Yes.. online BBS editors can take some getting used to.

But.. you can establish a point account with a bbs, the OpenXP
might be just what you are looking for. Take a look at some of
the screenshots at openxp.kolico.ca. Note: the font and
console window can be adjusted with your local Windows system.


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Bo Holt wrote to August Abolins <=-

What I consider complete? Something with a nice editing system as
quoting messages is not straight forward on some built-in editors LOL

I used BlueWave and Qedit for years, and loved the interface, being able
to collect taglines, and the programmability of Qedit.

I use MultiMail now, it feels a lot like BlueWave. I was using DOSBOX,
Telix and Bluewave to emulate an old DOS BBS environment, but ran into a
link for TSE, a 32-bit editor that's an evolution from Qedit.

I can edit, quote, reformat, justify paragraphs, import template text
like a signature, and look back through previous messages. I find I
only log in once a week or so to read messages locally, mostly to make
sure I see the same experience users see.




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I plan on getting OpenXP, but I also want something DOS based to keep with the vintage ;)

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Yeah, now I just have to sit down and find the time to install some of these readers :)

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Hello Bo!

** On Thursday 28.03.24 - 00:20, Bo Holt wrote to August Abolins:

I plan on getting OpenXP, but I also want something DOS
based to keep with the vintage ;)

Noted. A Windows OS seems like a non-vintage approach, but if
you look at the screenshots, OpenXP is operates as a console
(text) program.

Are you restricting your vintage experience with a CRT display?
:D ..cuz, an LCD screen would be non-vintage. ;)




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Yes, I am going to check out OpenXP... and as far is period-correct access? I'm currently on a Tandy 1000 TL/2 with an IBM 5153 CGA monitor LOL.

I do use Syncterm on modern machines, but I usually do my daily BBSing on the Tandy ;)

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On 02 Apr 24 01:28:42, Bo Holt said the following to August Abolins:

Yes, I am going to check out OpenXP... and as far is period-correct access? I'm currently on a Tandy 1000 TL/2 with an IBM 5153 CGA monitor LOL.

Ahhh, a Tandy fan!

Nick

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