Posted by Myles on Thu Sep 10 5:08:47 1998
In Reply to: Re: Addressees on Message boards posted by Tim Joyce on September 03, 1998 at 07:16:36:
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All,On the subject of CoCoBoard, here is some info about it:
>The software requires your server be a Unix system with a working installation of Perl 4 and the Image Magick tools, both
>available free of charge. The maintainer of the page must be able to create an account on your server to receive the email, and
>the account created must be able to write into your server space.and
>The CoCoBoard only runs on unix systems which have sendmail. It may run on others, but you'd have to do the
>port. Basically, if you can make your mail transport system push mail into a process on stdin, and you have perl,
>then you can probably make it work. However, we have no plans to port to Windows NT, Mac etc... (NT users
>note: the software does work quite nicely under Linux...)
So we need a Linux server with shell access. If we think of buying this then we
might have problems getting a database with the functionality we need for the PMS.There is an extensive list of alternative systems at http://thinkofit.com/webconf/.
After a quick look there doesn't seem to be a free BB system for NT which accepts e-mails other than mailing
list archiving software.What do people think?
Myles
>Tim,
>
>I feel we are tinkering with a system that has a limited life, how is the research on cocoboard going?
>
>We are gradually accumulating money for our own server, when we spec it, we should take into account cocoboards requirements, hence the requirement to do some research.
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>Cheers
>
>Tim