Linux-Hams archive - May 1998: Re: BBS using ax25 utils

Re: BBS using ax25 utils

Steve Fraser (lhz@ubm.uaem.mx)
Tue, 05 May 1998 08:51:30 +1000

At 07:40 PM 5/4/98 +0200, Gerhard wrote:
>I'm looking for a TSTHOST clone for Linux, so
>I can download compressed packet mail and read/answer it offline. The best
>way to do this would be a gateway to nntp.
>
I'm just completing a package called lnxforward, which does compressed
forwarding to FBB. It runs under Linux. It's designed as a mail hub system,
so (unlike TSTHOST etc) you'd be defined to your local systems as a BBS.
However, I think it'd do what you want. Together with Hessu's mailgw
package, it interfaces to smtp/nntp. In addition, it has a web interface
that allows browsing and posting bulletins or personal messages from a
browser to a web server.

Here, I read all bulletins with Netscape, and all mail with Eudora (I have
a windows PC acting as a client to my Linux box).

If you're interested, e-mail me and I'll tell you where to get the beta
(just so I know who's using it!) It's been running here for several months
in development mode, and in fact handles the bulk of VK5's @WW feed.

73
Steve