Is there a way to setup your email client to fetch your BBS mail?
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Tristan B. Kildaire wrote to Fidonet.BBS_INTERNET <=-

Is there a way to setup your email client to fetch your BBS mail?

Depends what BBS software you're accessing. Some software, such as Synchronet will let you access netmail using an email client. Other software (e.g. Mystic) will only let you access local messages via POP/SMTP.

I'm not aware of a way to a way to access echomail via POP/SMTP, but they can be accessed on a lot of systems using NNTP with a newsreader. Both Synchronet and Mystic support NNTP access, and other systems could use JAMNNTPD. On your end, Thunderbird can be configured to access NNTP.


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18 Nov 16 14:03, you wrote to Fidonet.BBS_INTERNET:

Is there a way to setup your email client to fetch your BBS mail?

that depends on the BBS software... it is likely also limited to only private mail... private mail being FTN netmail which is similar to internet email...

FTN echomail is similar to internet news... some email clients also function as
news clients... some BBS systems offer their echomail areas in a news format...
the most common "problem" is that a BBS maintains the last read pointers of its
users... news cannot do that as there is no facillity to pass that information from the client back to the server for storage... news clients maintain their own last read pointers...

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On 2016-11-19 12:25 AM, Tony Langdon wrote:

Tristan B. Kildaire wrote to Fidonet.BBS_INTERNET <=-

Is there a way to setup your email client to fetch your BBS mail?

Depends what BBS software you're accessing. Some software, such as

Synchronet

will let you access netmail using an email client. Other software (e.g. Mystic) will only let you access local messages via POP/SMTP.

I'm not aware of a way to a way to access echomail via POP/SMTP, but they can be accessed on a lot of systems using NNTP with a newsreader. Both

Synchronet

and Mystic support NNTP access, and other systems could use JAMNNTPD. On

your

end, Thunderbird can be configured to access NNTP.

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Yes. I am using NNTP right now. But my SysOp says he disabled the e-mail service for the e-mail clients because of spam he encountered.
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Is there a way to setup your email client to fetch your BBS mail?

If your BBS software supports NNTP and your email client is also your
NNTP reader (Thunderbird comes to mind).

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Depends what BBS software you're accessing. Some software, such as Synchron

will let you access netmail using an email client. Other software (e.g. Mystic) will only let you access local messages via POP/SMTP.

I'm not aware of a way to a way to access echomail via POP/SMTP, but they ca

be accessed on a lot of systems using NNTP with a newsreader. Both Synchron

and Mystic support NNTP access, and other systems could use JAMNNTPD. On yo

end, Thunderbird can be configured to access NNTP.

WINServer can support NNTP as well :)

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Robert Wolfe wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

end, Thunderbird can be configured to access NNTP.

WINServer can support NNTP as well :)

Cool, I've never used it, the name suggests it wouldn't be compatible with my environment. :)


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Cool, I've never used it, the name suggests it wouldn't be compatible with m

environment. :)

Which is? If it's Linux, sure it can :) Just run it in a VM :)

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WINServer can support NNTP as well :)

Cool, I've never used it, the name suggests it wouldn't be compatible with m

environment. :)

WINServer is short for "Wildcat! Interactive Net Server". But, yes, it
is a Windows piece of software.

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Robert Wolfe wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Which is? If it's Linux, sure it can :) Just run it in a VM :)

Not the sort of thing you do on a Pi. :P


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Robert Wolfe wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

WINServer is short for "Wildcat! Interactive Net Server". But, yes, it
is a Windows piece of software.

Yeah, I do recall taking a look at it a while back too, out of curiosity. All my BBSs run on a Pi board of some fruity flavour - Banana and Raspberry. ;)


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Tony Langdon wrote to Robert Wolfe <=-

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Robert Wolfe wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Which is? If it's Linux, sure it can :) Just run it in a VM :)

Not the sort of thing you do on a Pi. :P

Well the latest Pi's have fairly beefy processors on them, I'm sure
you could run QEMU and get them to boot Win2k3 Server which is
sufficient to run WINServer.

Not saying it's a good idea, just saying it's doable on a Pi :)

Sampsa

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Not the sort of thing you do on a Pi. :P

true dat... I cant even run UAE on Pi 3... still too slow

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Dave Vandermeer wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Not the sort of thing you do on a Pi. :P

true dat... I cant even run UAE on Pi 3... still too slow

UAE???


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Hi Tony!

05 Dec 2016 08:25, from Tony Langdon -> Dave Vandermeer:

Not the sort of thing you do on a Pi. :P

true dat... I cant even run UAE on Pi 3... still too slow

UAE???

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Richard Menedetter wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Not the sort of thing you do on a Pi. :P

true dat... I cant even run UAE on Pi 3... still too slow

UAE???

Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator

Ahh, OK, cool.


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true dat... I cant even run UAE on Pi 3... still too slow

UAE???

Yea The Universal Amiga Emulator (UAE, FS-UAE, E-UAE)

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Dave Vandermeer wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

true dat... I cant even run UAE on Pi 3... still too slow

UAE???

Yea The Universal Amiga Emulator (UAE, FS-UAE, E-UAE)

No dramas. :)


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On 12/04/16, Sampsa Laine said the following...

Tony Langdon wrote to Robert Wolfe <=-

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Robert Wolfe wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Which is? If it's Linux, sure it can :) Just run it in a VM :)

Not the sort of thing you do on a Pi. :P

Well the latest Pi's have fairly beefy processors on them, I'm sure
you could run QEMU and get them to boot Win2k3 Server which is
sufficient to run WINServer.

You can.. I have done it. I have no idea why I ruined a perfectly good PI putting a Windoze os on it but I wanted to see. it ran ok.

Id stick with linux tho!

:)
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Chad Adams wrote to Sampsa Laine <=-

You can.. I have done it. I have no idea why I ruined a perfectly good
PI putting a Windoze os on it but I wanted to see. it ran ok.

LOL indeed! ;)


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