[drats_users] E-Mail SMPTE Connection

[Dan Smith]

> The key is making it user friendly. Your wizards are well suited to
> that. D-Star Comms executes the e-mail function well, so I do suggest
> looking at their interface.

Your link doesn't seem to work for me, and I don't see anywhere I can
download the application without paying for it.

Nonetheless, it seems from some of the verbiage on the site that D-STAR
Comms doesn't allow the end user to use their own email client, but
rather just send email with the copy of D-STAR Comms they have.  Is that
right?  D-RATS takes this further, allowing you to actually run, say,
outlook express on the client computer and connect to your mail server
as you normally would.

However, I can definitely add something to D-RATS to make it a little
more integrated than that.  Imagine an "Email" form that has to,
subject, and message fields.  If you put an email address in the to
field and send it to a station that has internet connectivity, that
station will convert it into an email and send it out.  I could do the
same thing on incoming mails, converting them back to an "email" form.
How does that sound?

The first bit (the sending part) of that is actually not all that much
work...

Do others on the list (perhaps those who have used D-STAR Comms) have
any input in this area?

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Dan Smith
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