Message List

This module (msglist.js) can be used as a full-screen scrolling user interface for listing messages (public posts and private email messages) and reading and replying to messages.

This module was first demonstrated in this video.

For full/proper function of this module, you'll need a recent v3.17c dev-build (as of March, 2020) of Synchronet, or later.

This module may require an update of your Synchronet exec/load directory to get the latest .js load-libraries, including the newly added age.js.

The following menu files are used by this module:

• text/menu/msglist.asc
• text/menu/msgview.asc

Run jsexec msglist.js -install.

This procedure this will configure the “Read Mail” and “List Msgs” modules in SCFG->System->Loadable Modules with command-lines that call this module to handle those system functions from all built-in menus and stock command shells.

If you wish to allow your BBS users to list sub-board messages directly from a Baja command shell menu (e.g. using the 'L' command key from the main or message menu) add the following command key handler to the desired command shell source (.src) file(s):

for Synchronet v3.18 or later:

cmdkey L
    msg_list
    end_cmd

for Synchronet v3.17 or older:

cmdkey L
   exec_bin "msglist"
   end_cmd

... and then recompile the source file with baja (e.g. baja default.src).

In Synchronet v3.20, the default command shell (default.js) already has main menu L command key mapped to the BBS message list function.

The behavior of this module is sysop-configurable through the use of command-line arguments and the modopts.ini file.

The [msglist] section of the modopts.ini file may be created by the sysop to customize the look-and-feel of this module.

If a [msglist:<code>] section exists, then those settings will take precedence when the module is being used to list/view messages in the message base with the specified internal code (e.g. [msglist:mail] for the mail message base).

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