>> Yes, BBBS provides a telnet mailer interface which operates as Nick >> and you mention. It is a mailer interface, not for users, though it >> does also provide a telnet user interface for access to the bbs >> itself as well.
>> FrontDoor mailer under OS/2 also allows mailer telnet connections, so >> there are a few mailers that do this.
>And then there is NetFoss... It looks like a serial port to any old mailer yo > care to mention, and listens to whatever port you want for an incoming > connection from the internet. At least thats what I remember of it, I > experimented with it once a LONG time ago.
And that's under DOS/Windows IIRC, right?
Over here, BBBS will let you switch between mailer types if it's configured correctly. In other words, using regular expressions in the config allows it to connect to either binkp or telnet depending on the connection type it receives.
