Subj : Telegram users soon?
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Sun Nov 01 2020 11:04:12

Hello, Maurice Kinal.
On 11/1/20 1:45 PM you wrote:

 MK> Hey Charles!
 CP>> That's something that I would like to see in the Android options. 
 CP>> More modular, to use a different text editor or a tagline manager 
 CP>> or things like that.
 MK> Check out MultiMail.  It also can handle both QWK and Bluewave 
 MK> formats.  The only thing it lacks is the MSG format which would 
 MK> have made it perfect but it can be configured for different 
 MK> editors.  From sysop's point of view it will require additional 
 MK> software to handle the conversions in order to make it usable on a 
 MK> fidonet node.

I actually have been looking at MultiMail. It's source code is readily available. I was looking more in a standard matter uploading and downloading packets over Telnet.  They only problem with that is that I've only found one Terminal program in Android so far that handles XYZ modem type file transfers, fTelnet, which I haven't yet been able to get to work properly on my phone. But it is one of several mental projects.

I think the basic functionality relatively speaking would be easy enough to port to Android. The main issue I think will be the user interface.
 
 CP>> Right now I've been finding whatever source codes I can to study 
 CP>> and try to figure out what is what.
 MK> That is always a good strategy.  If you find anything interesting 
 MK> please speak up.

So far, I'm looking at MultiMail, and a point software called JEDpoint. I have no familiarity with JEDpoint itself, but it's source is Java, which many Android apps are written in.

I think my main problem is I'm jumping around with ideas, and really, I need to focus on one at a time.
 
 CP>> I always liked the offline mail format.
 MK> Which one?  Personally I'd pick the MSG format and save everyone a 
 MK> ton of grief.

ahh, I misspoke. Not so much the format itself. More the functionality. Between QWK and BW as a user, I didn't really have a preference.

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