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  • EMSI vs IEMSI

    From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to Marceline Jones on Sat Feb 20 02:26:08 2021
    Re: EMSI vs IEMSI
    By: Marceline Jones to ALL on Sat Feb 20 2021 08:10 pm

    I am reading FSC-0056 and I am not clear on what the actual difference between EMSI and IEMSI is.

    Is EMSI for use between frontend mailers and IEMSI for BBS logons ?

    Yes, Frontdoor's terminal is IEMSI capable. It only works with other IEMSI BBSs like RemoteAccess.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to Marceline Jones on Sat Feb 20 14:17:00 2021
    Re: EMSI vs IEMSI
    By: Marceline Jones to ALAN IANSON on Sun Feb 21 2021 07:18 am

    So what is the difference between EMSI and I-EMSI ? (apparently the "I" stands for "interactive" but what is it used for ?)

    It will log you in automatically when it connects if the dialer has the info available and the remote end is IEMSI capable.

    There may have been other features to it too, but I haven't used it in so long I have forgotten. It was quite handy.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Jay Harris on Sat Feb 20 17:41:30 2021
    On 20 Feb 21 15:42:44, Jay Harris said the following to Mark Lewis:

    Is EMSI for use between frontend mailers and IEMSI for BBS logons ?

    correct...

    What clients support IEMSI? Telegard supports it but I've never tried it out.

    Renegade supports IEMSI.

    Nick

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to Jay Harris on Sat Feb 20 14:58:12 2021
    Re: Re: EMSI vs IEMSI
    By: Jay Harris to mark lewis on Sat Feb 20 2021 03:42 pm

    What clients support IEMSI? Telegard supports it but I've never tried it out.

    I don't remember Telegard supporting IEMSI but maybe I have forgotten.

    There was a mex around that I used for a time to add IEMSI support to Maximus.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664.1 to Nick Andre on Sat Feb 20 20:23:56 2021
    `07*** Quoting Nick Andre from a message to Jay Harris ***`07

    What clients support IEMSI? Telegard supports it but I've never tried it out.

    Renegade supports IEMSI.

    I guess I meant terminals. I remember looking in Telix for IEMSI support
    back in the day but couldn't find it. A quick google search shows that Terminate supported it.

    I might have to load that up in DOSBOX and see if I can play with it.

    Jay

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Jay Harris on Sat Feb 20 20:48:14 2021
    On 20 Feb 21 20:23:57, Jay Harris said the following to Nick Andre:

    Renegade supports IEMSI.

    I guess I meant terminals. I remember looking in Telix for IEMSI support back in the day but couldn't find it. A quick google search shows that Terminate supported it.

    Ahhh... I still use Mtelnet/Mtel32... pretty sure it has it.

    Nick

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to Jay Harris on Sat Feb 20 18:21:40 2021
    Re: Re: EMSI vs IEMSI
    By: Jay Harris to Alan Ianson on Sat Feb 20 2021 08:52 pm

    K. IEMSI logins Yes

    There's also an option under new uers to "IEMSI New Users".

    It does, and I don't remember that but it was a while ago now.. ;)

    I'm going to download Terminate and play with it in DOSBOX, I never used it back in the day.

    I used Terminate quite a bit back in the day. Terminate also has a great little point setup inside there, similar to the FD mail reader. It had a dial-up mailer but I think it had a BSO outbound, so you might be able to use it with something like binkd.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Jay Harris on Sat Mar 13 21:20:50 2021
    Hello Jay!

    20 Feb 21 15:42, you wrote to mark lewis:

    Is EMSI for use between frontend mailers and IEMSI for BBS logons
    ?

    correct...

    What clients support IEMSI? Telegard supports it but I've never tried
    it out.

    FrontDoor's Terminal and Communique are 2 that come to mind; I'm sure there are others as well.

    Andrew

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