Hi everyone,

Any one using Synchronet as their primary email client? I really like the idea
of doing this, but some of the emails I've sent myself from Gmail look unreadable.

Thanks,
Sam


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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Sam Alexander to All on Sun Dec 29 2013 04:00 pm

Hi everyone,

Any one using Synchronet as their primary email client? I really like the idea of doing this, but some of the emails I've sent myself from Gmail look unreadable.

looks unreadable how? and what client are you using?
just sent myself one from gmail and looks fine in my client.

looks fine in the source too

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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Sam Alexander to All on Sun Dec 29 2013 04:00 pm

Any one using Synchronet as their primary email client? I really like the idea of doing this, but some of the emails I've sent myself from Gmail look unreadable.

If you use a POP client on the BBS server, you can read the HTML mails OK.

I had a script called "Procmail Sanitizer" that I used to run on Unix that could sanitize any malicious attachments, tricky HTML in the email and more. It could also strip all HTML from an email and leave you with text only.

I'd love something like that for Synchronet - I might seriously consider bouncing my home email to my BBS if I could.

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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Mro to Sam Alexander on Sun Dec 29 2013 04:55 pm

Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Sam Alexander to All on Sun Dec 29 2013 04:00 pm

Any one using Synchronet as their primary email client? I really like the idea of doing this, but some of the emails I've sent myself from Gmail look unreadable.

looks unreadable how? and what client are you using?
just sent myself one from gmail and looks fine in my client.

looks fine in the source too

I'm looking at the emails from within Synchronet itself under E) Read/Send E-mail > R) Read mail sent to you. The email shows both the text/plain version
and the text/html version mixed into the same email making it hard to read. If
I view the email in another client via pop3 I'm sure it'll look okay but I'd love to keep all my email with in Synchronet if that's possible.

Sam



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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Poindexter Fortran to Sam Alexander on Sun Dec 29 2013 05:09 pm

Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Sam Alexander to All on Sun Dec 29 2013 04:00 pm

Any one using Synchronet as their primary email client? I really like the idea of doing this, but some of the emails I've sent myself from Gmail look unreadable.

If you use a POP client on the BBS server, you can read the HTML mails OK.

I had a script called "Procmail Sanitizer" that I used to run on Unix that could sanitize any malicious attachments, tricky HTML in the email and
more. It could also strip all HTML from an email and leave you with text only.

I'd love something like that for Synchronet - I might seriously consider bouncing my home email to my BBS if I could.

That's kind of what I hoped to do, just use Synchronet as email server and client, but I'll need to do alittle work to make that possible.

Thanks,
Sam


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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Sam Alexander to Mro on Sun Dec 29 2013 08:32 pm

I'm looking at the emails from within Synchronet itself under E) Read/Send E-mail > R) Read mail sent to you. The email shows both the text/plain version and the text/html version mixed into the same email making it hard to read. If I view the email in another client via pop3 I'm sure it'll
look okay but I'd love to keep all my email with in Synchronet if that's possible.

well, i think it's a bit wierd to want to read your email via your telnet interface.

do you even have your bbs up all the time? arent you one of those guys who comes and goes all the time?
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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Sam Alexander to Mro on Sun Dec 29 2013 20:32:51

I'm looking at the emails from within Synchronet itself under E)
Read/Send E-mail > R) Read mail sent to you. The email shows both the text/plain version and the text/html version mixed into the same email making it hard to read. If I view the email in another client via pop3 I'm sure it'll look okay but I'd love to keep all my email with in Synchronet if that's possible.

I think that happens because a lot of email clients these days are set to read HTML-formatted email. I'm not sure if there's an easy way around that. If there was a way for Synchronet to filter out the HTML tags from emails, I'm not sure how.

Nightfox

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On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Sam Alexander wrote to All:

but some of the emails I've sent myself from Gmail look
unreadable.

ensure that you are sending PLAIN TEXT and not that MIME or HTML mess ;)

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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Nightfox to Sam Alexander on Sun Dec 29 2013 07:43 pm

I think that happens because a lot of email clients these days are set to read HTML-formatted email. I'm not sure if there's an easy way around
that. If there was a way for Synchronet to filter out the HTML tags from emails, I'm not sure how.

you can rig up some mail processor.
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Hello Sam,

On 29 Dec 13 16:00, Sam Alexander wrote to All:

Any one using Synchronet as their primary email client? I really like
the idea of doing this, but some of the emails I've sent myself from
Gmail look unreadable.

Client? Or server? I use it as my email server for my BBS domain. Though I use Thunderbird as the client to read/write emails. I have multiple email addresses though, so it's nice to use one client to keep them all maintained in one place.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Access Denied to Sam Alexander on Sun Dec 29 2013 10:02 pm

Client? Or server? I use it as my email server for my BBS domain. Though I use Thunderbird as the client to read/write emails. I have multiple email addresses though, so it's nice to use one client to keep them all maintained in one place.

At one point, I played with setting up .forwards on all of my email and using IMAP on Synchronet. It mostly worked, but I was a little off-put by not being able to use SSL on Windows w/IMAP. Nowadays I remote into the BBS box from work and run a mail client locally so don't have to worry about sending passwords in cleartext.

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Hello Poindexter,

On 30 Dec 13 10:44, Poindexter Fortran wrote to Access Denied:

Client? Or server? I use it as my email server for my BBS domain.
Though I use Thunderbird as the client to read/write emails. I
have multiple email addresses though, so it's nice to use one
client to keep them all maintained in one place.

At one point, I played with setting up .forwards on all of my email
and using IMAP on Synchronet. It mostly worked, but I was a little
off-put by not being able to use SSL on Windows w/IMAP. Nowadays I
remote into the BBS box from work and run a mail client locally so
don't have to worry about sending passwords in cleartext.

Would you believe it if I told you the only way my ISP does email is with plain text password? I'm seriously disappointed by that. So I use that as my spam and "online signup" address, and keep my paid domain email and gmail addresses a little more low-key.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Mro to Sam Alexander on Sun Dec 29 2013 21:39:09

well, i think it's a bit wierd to want to read your email via your telnet interface.

do you even have your bbs up all the time? arent you one of those guys who comes and goes all the time?

FWIW, I think you're a bit of an opinionated and hot air spewing ugly bag of mostly water. Not to mention the fact that you think that having a BBS system online constantly makes your phallus larger than those of your fellow sysops. What could you possibly be making up for with such qualities?

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Re: Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Khelair to Mro on Mon Dec 30 2013 09:52 pm

Not to mention the fact that you think that having
a BBS system online constantly makes your phallus larger than those of
your fellow sysops.

You mean I've been running this BBS since 1991 FOR NOTHING???!!?

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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Access Denied to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Dec 30 2013 07:53 pm

Would you believe it if I told you the only way my ISP does email is with plain text password? I'm seriously disappointed by that. So I use that as
my spam and "online signup" address, and keep my paid domain email and
gmail addresses a little more low-key.

i'm surprised they even OFFER email addresses anymore.
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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Mro to Access Denied on Tue Dec 31 2013 11:13 am

i'm surprised they even OFFER email addresses anymore.

Even my PAID WEBHOST has an option to have google host your domain email!

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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Poindexter Fortran to Mro on Tue Dec 31 2013 04:29 pm

Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Mro to Access Denied on Tue Dec 31 2013 11:13 am

i'm surprised they even OFFER email addresses anymore.

Even my PAID WEBHOST has an option to have google host your domain email!

doesnt google require you to pay for the google/apps email?
i have it for free because it's grandfathered in.
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Re: Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Poindexter Fortran to Khelair on Tue Dec 31 2013 07:45:59

Not to mention the fact that you think that having
a BBS system online constantly makes your phallus larger than those
of
your fellow sysops.

You mean I've been running this BBS since 1991 FOR NOTHING???!!?

Wait a sec, I didn't address that to you, did I? It's been a few days, but I'm pretty sure I flamed an asshole about that, and I don't think you fall into that category. Heh.

--Damo dice, "Perhaps today IS a good day to die!"

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Re: Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Khelair to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Jan 01 2014 10:33 am

You mean I've been running this BBS since 1991 FOR NOTHING???!!?

Wait a sec, I didn't address that to you, did I? It's been a few days, but I'm pretty sure I flamed an asshole about that, and I don't think
you fall into that category. Heh.

Naaah, I think that was mro you directed that at. I just can't resist an opportunity to unleash my quirky, snarky wit on those around me. :)

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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Mro to Sam Alexander on Sun Dec 29 2013 09:39 pm

Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Sam Alexander to Mro on Sun Dec 29 2013 08:32 pm
well, i think it's a bit wierd to want to read your email via your telnet interface.

do you even have your bbs up all the time? arent you one of those guys who comes and goes all the time?

I've come and gone from the Sync scene several times over the last 15 or so years, and yes I've ran a few boards. Me and a friend who used to run a BBS in
the mid 90's have gotten a Linode VM to host a new BBS so hopefully this one will be around for a long while. We're working through customizing it, but for
now we hope to keep all of our BBS-related chatter on the board itself so I hoped to read emails we send between each other there.

But why would it be weird to check email via command line? I can get to telnet
from virtually any machine I'm on, regardless of speed, so having a command line app to check email is actually rather nice. Until just a few years ago when my home server died I had Alpine setup to check all of my accounts, and it
was very nice having that as an option regardless of where I was at.

Take care.


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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Mro to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 31 2013 11:52 pm

doesnt google require you to pay for the google/apps email?
i have it for free because it's grandfathered in.

yeah, $50/user per year. Our office uses it, I love it.


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Re: Using Sync as primary email client
By: Sam Alexander to Mro on Thu Jan 02 2014 05:02 am

But why would it be weird to check email via command line? I can get to telnet from virtually any machine I'm on, regardless of speed, so having a command line app to check email is actually rather nice. Until just a few years ago when my home server died I had Alpine setup to check all of my accounts, and it was very nice having that as an option regardless of where I was at.

how about a cellphone email app?
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