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  • Re: Screaming Into The Void

    From Adept@21:2/108 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jan 6 17:39:48 2026
    You're tempting me to go back to Eudora on the BBS, I don't need HTML
    email and prefer mbox formatted email. Last time I tried, there was an
    issue with SMTP ports, I think. I'll need to try again.

    Oh, there is -- you have to use stunnel, and then not use any security that's built into Eudora.

    Which is how it should be, because, obviously, one should not trust a program with no updates in the last two decades to do well with security.

    Which is why I still keep a parallel port cable, in case I'm teleported
    back in time to 1990. :)

    And, hey, never know if the zombie apocalypse comes, and that's the bit of tech that people can usefully make work.

    Mind you, even _if_ there's a zombie apocalypse I can't imagine it mattering.

    Still, just in case...

    (Obviously, _way_ more likely that there's some retro computing reason, where some data is on some old bit of hardware.)

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Adept on Sat Jan 10 11:01:01 2026
    Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Which is how it should be, because, obviously, one should not trust a program with no updates in the last two decades to do well with
    security.

    Of course, totally agree. I don't run POP3 outside of my firewall, and
    not interpreting HTML helps keep things secure. Securer?

    I did a lot with Eudora in the '90s. I worked at a Mac shop that ran a
    LAN-based email system called "QuickMail" that needed 5 systems to
    support 70 people - one was a usenet gateway, one a Compuserve gateway,
    one for supporting mail clients and a dedicated SMTP gateway.

    I built a BSD/OS box on a 486 desktop, set up Sendmail, Qpopper and
    Eudora clients. We found a Quickmail to mbox converter so we could
    convert email. Then, we created a company address book and pointed
    everyone's eudora.ini file to it.

    Later, we set up a company NNTP server, which hosted departmental
    groups, product groups, and one called "gossip" that ended up taking
    the whole thing down. :)



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