HIding Areas {02}

Bob Swift <[email protected]> writes:

 BS> The problem here (and I suspect with Sean's system as well), is that the
 BS> BBS is carrying the complete echomail backbone (well over 400 message
 BS> areas), however there's only a few that I actually follow.

I see.

 BS> In BBBS, each user is allowed to "subscribe" to selected message areas,
 BS> and only those areas are scanned for new mail and such. It would be
 BS> great if BlueMail would either read and honor this "subscription"
 BS> information from BBBS,

blueMail does this for all services ... but mail files/databases like the
BBBS Message Base (and Hudson Message Base as well). The idea behind this is
that while reading a mail file or database, you get full access to the whole
file/database - no restrictions apply. For BBBS, in specific, you get the
sysop configuration, who should probably be subscribed to all areas.

 BS> or (preferred because it is more generic and can be universally applied)
 BS> allow a separate list of the areas which should be displayed. Any areas
 BS> not on the subscription list would not appear in the list of areas (or
 BS> be processed in any way via BlueMail).

I'll see whether this can be done. (For a more generic solution, there
should be area filter file possible for every "system", i.e. every mail
something blueMail can open, so the area filter files (.aff ?) should be
named like bbbs.aff, hudson.aff, soup.aff, and probably be stored either in
the INF or a separate directory, or the INF file itself.)

And, you probably only want these .aff to be applied while reading, not when
using the reply manager, don't you? (Which may be confusing.)

I think, it'd best (not for me, but the user) if this could be controlled
from within blueMail, for example with a tri-state "long/short/custom" area
list...

 BS> (unless I "bastardize" the message area titles on the BBS to provide
 BS> some unique filtering criteria just for this purpose).

Nobody should do this.

>> I already though about adding a few input box macros (\0 ... \9).

 BS> I usually forget about using the defined macros and retype all the stuff
 BS> each time.

Maybe \0 should bring up a list of the definitions of \1 ... \9 for
selection? (No idea at the moment whether this easily can be done...)

Ingo

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