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by Jonathan - Jan 30th 2002 16:45:25
Great program but I have a problem: I'd like to actually be able to read
the error messages when logins fail and what not--but the program
immediately quits and clears the screen when there's a problem.
Perhaps pause on error, prompting for a key? Just a suggestion...
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Great program, really serves a purpose well for me.
by astro - Dec 21st 2001 02:19:09
I just wanted to let you know that Bonim really ended up helping me out
practically: I just got a new cell phone that came w/ AIM for SMS service
(I didn't care, I needed the voice line more than anything). I really
wished I had been able to get an e-mail capable phone affordably, but it's
just not there yet.
At any rate, turns out the AIM service is *free*. So, I immediately went
about figuring out how to get the e-mail from my professional account (I
have the luxury of running my own mail server) to forward the To: and
Subject: headers as well as the first 2-3 lines of the body of the message
forwarded to my new AOL screen name via AIM.
Well, long story at least shorter, after futzing around for a couple of
hours, I have a procmail recipe, a perl script, and your program working
well together to notify me of new email for free on my phone. I read the
subject and first sentence or two, know who its from, and can immediately
call them if it's important. I get a significant volume of legitimate
e-mail, but below the threshold where the AOL servers refuse my connection
(though that certainly happened during testing!).
Great program, good work. A couple of hopefully constructive comments: You
might want to work on the command line interface and its handling of
message text. Perl's quotemeta() function works fine, but I didn't even
think of using it for a while, as I was trying to pass the whole lump of a
message as a quoted (and appropriately but manually escaped) string. Also,
just a little more hinting in the docs about how to use the gui - took me a
while to figure out how to select a buddy to message. Uh, more than a
little while.
Summary: Great work, and I hope you keep updates coming. Really does a
real-world favor for me and I hope that that means something to you.
-astro
astro@disturbance.dhs.org
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Re: Great program, really serves a purpose well for me.
by astro - Dec 21st 2001 02:20:57
Argh, correction: I send the From: and Subject headers plus the top of the
body to my phone. Duh. ;)
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Bonim
by Caniffe - Nov 16th 2001 01:14:53
Great program; have been looking for a (decent) Linux Console AIM program
for a while now. Bonim kind of fell into my lap earlier this week, and I'm
sold.
The only problem I've encountered thus far with 1.0.0 and 1.0.2 (which
I've spoken to David about, and it will be fixed in the next release) is
with apparrent string corruption when creating a new profile (the -c tag).
In client.cpp, simply delete the following lines:
Line 1065: char logdir[256];
Line 1218: mkdir(logdir, 0755);
and create a "logs" directory under your profiles.
i.e.:
~/.bonim/MyScreenName/logs
Great program though; works like a charm.
--
-C.
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Bonim rocks the console
by evoltech - Aug 8th 2001 22:40:58
I boo everytime I am in a movie and I see aol/timewarner. However many of
my friends do not feel as strongly as I do. Chating over aol on a linux
console makes things ok for me.
--
yr obdn't srvn't
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