Its been there for 28 years ;) Damn I am old ...

Added it to the Renegade BBS home page bbs utils links. http://www.rgbbs.info/links.html

Can this be used like InternetREX? Toss mail via binkp and let everything else do the tossing and such and be nothing more than a transport and a node catch?

... Wise Man cross river *THEN* insult alligator.

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Hi all,

My idea is to have a point node off my main node on fidonet and fsxnet and was just interested in what others use to read & poll FTN-style netmail/echomail on Windows & Linux.

I like WinPoint (http://www.winpoint.org/) but some of it is in Dutch and I don't think it supports CRAM-MD5.

Just wanted to gauge what people use so I can try it out!

Thanks,
Nick
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Hey!

Using Fidian under Linux and Aftershock on Android.

Fidian looks nice! Thanks for the rec, gonna check it out and try to run in Docker :)


Thanks,
Nick
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Hello CyberNix!

28 Sep 24 19:58, you wrote to all:

Hi all,

My idea is to have a point node off my main node on fidonet and fsxnet
and was just interested in what others use to read & poll FTN-style netmail/echomail on Windows & Linux.

Using Fidian under Linux and Aftershock on Android.

Floris


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CyberNix wrote to All <=-

My idea is to have a point node off my main node on fidonet and fsxnet
and was just interested in what others use to read & poll FTN-style netmail/echomail on Windows & Linux.

I like WinPoint (http://www.winpoint.org/) but some of it is in Dutch
and I don't think it supports CRAM-MD5.

Just wanted to gauge what people use so I can try it out!

I just log into my BBS and download QWK-packets of echomail, then read
them with an Offline Mail Reader called MultiMail. If I reply to
anything, that gets uploaded to the BBS in a QWK-packet and exported to
the network. Very simple, convenient, and works great.



... Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it.
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CyberNix wrote to All <=-

Hi all,

My idea is to have a point node off my main node on fidonet and fsxnet
and was just interested in what others use to read & poll FTN-style netmail/echomail on Windows & Linux.

The last time I did, I just duplicated my BBS environment (BinkleyTerm,
Squish and Max), removed the BBS, kept the message areas and mailer, and
used a message area reader (TimEd in my case) to read messages.

WinPoint and SemPoint seem to be the two major players nowadays.



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Hello CyberNix!

I like WinPoint (http://www.winpoint.org/) but some of it is in Dutch and
I don't think it supports CRAM-MD5.

Yes it does. Here is a clip from one of my logs:

14.02.22 23:36:25 TBNK Using BinkP protocol
14.02.22 23:36:25 DSYS Connecting to Tommi Boss(2:221/1)
14.02.22 23:36:25 IDEN Using authentication for uplink fidonet
14.02.22 23:36:25 PASS Using session password
14.02.22 23:36:25 HOST Connecting to host rbb.fidonet.fi:24554
14.02.22 23:36:25 MAKE Making Connection
14.02.22 23:36:26 CONN Connected
14.02.22 23:36:26 BNUL OPT CRAM-MD5-9ccf130a74cbb7cc607492199d318cee
14.02.22 23:36:26 RSYS RBB/2


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Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

WinPoint and SemPoint seem to be the two major players nowadays.

OpenXP is quite a fine performer too! ;)


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Am 28.09.24 schrieb CyberNix@21:4/145 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo Cybernix,

My idea is to have a point node off my main node on fidonet and fsxnet and was just interested in what others use to read & poll FTN-style netmail/echomail on Windows & Linux.

I'm using OpenXP on Linux, mostly because I've used in back in the 90s
when I only was a point.
But it really is the best message reader that I know, eg. the thread
view is very useful to keep track of larger threads.

Regards,
Anna

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* Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)

Hello acn!

** On Friday 04.10.24 - 14:05, acn wrote to CyberNix:

I'm using OpenXP [...] But it really is the best message
reader that I know, eg. the thread view is very useful to
keep track of larger threads.

The Search feature is superb, bar none. You can start a search
with say "User", and then narrow down the search results with
"Subj" or a string in the body of the message, for example.

And its overall performance like a database for messages is far
better than manipulating qwk packets.

--- OpenXP 5.0.58
* Origin: fsxnet/2 (21:3/110.10)

El 28/9/24 a las 15:58, CyberNix escribió:

Hi all,

My idea is to have a point node off my main node on fidonet and fsxnet and was just interested in what others use to read & poll FTN-style netmail/echomail on Windows & Linux.

I like WinPoint (http://www.winpoint.org/) but some of it is in Dutch and I don't think it supports CRAM-MD5.

Just wanted to gauge what people use so I can try it out!

Thanks,
Nick
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I use binkd+crashmail+golded on linux as point, to connect to my bbs
node that run sbbs
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//Hello Ogg,//

on *30.09.24* at *2:19:00* You wrote in Area *FSX_GEN*
to *CyberNix* about *"FTN-style mailers/readers"*.

Yes it does. Here is a clip from one of my logs:
14.02.22 23:36:26 BNUL OPT CRAM-MD5-9ccf130a74cbb7cc607492199d318cee

Unfortunately, it just reports what the other side offers. It is not using it.

Regards,
PainDictator

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I had no idea what this was until I stumbled upon it one day. Added it to the Renegade BBS home page bbs utils links.


http://www.rgbbs.info/links.html

... Nothing wrong w/ this program a strong magnet can't cure.

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Hello Exodus,

On Mon, Dec 16 2024 08:03:31 -0600, you wrote ..

Can this be used like InternetREX? Toss mail via binkp and let
everything else do the tossing and such and be nothing more than a
transport and a node catch?

If I remember right, it isn't a "server", but it will poll another system for mail via binkp and other methods. So I'd imagine you could probably set it up as a PVT node if you didn't care to use it as a point.

Then again, I could be confusing this with OpenXP, which is similar and also includes NNTP support.

I installed both around the same time to check them out. I just didn't have a long term use for them. The main differences I noticed that pertained to my interest were that OpenXP has NNTP support, Winpoint doesn't.. and Winpoint has much better UTF-8 support. *shrug*

Both of them performed well in their own regard, though.

Regards,
Nick

... He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
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