If I set incoming and outgoing filebox directories for each node will BinkD work? I don't know of any other way to make it "friendly" but it seems this is the mailer to use for the most compatibility.

Allen

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19 Jun 16 02:11, you wrote to Binkd Team:

If I set incoming and outgoing filebox directories for each node will

BinkD

work?

Of course it will work. :D

'Tommi

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19 Jun 16 02:11, you wrote to Binkd Team:

If I set incoming and outgoing filebox directories for each node will BinkD work?

of course it will work... it is a bit more effort for tossing mail and files, though... you don't need to use any fileboxes and you can use just one of them without being required to use both...

I don't know of any other way to make it "friendly" but it seems this
is the mailer to use for the most compatibility.

what do you mean? all binkd does is send and receive files from BSO storage using the binkp protocol...

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On Jun 19, 2016 09:57am, mark lewis wrote to Allen Prunty:

19 Jun 16 02:11, you wrote to Binkd Team:

If I set incoming and outgoing filebox directories for each node will
BinkD work?

of course it will work... it is a bit more effort for tossing mail and files, though... you don't need to use any fileboxes and you can use
just one of them without being required to use both...

I don't know of any other way to make it "friendly" but it seems this
is the mailer to use for the most compatibility.

what do you mean? all binkd does is send and receive files from BSO storage using the binkp protocol...

From what I'm being told (in another net) Bink-D has more connectivity, is ipv6 capable, and is the most actively developed mailer out there.

Hector could have one hell of a product if he would incorporate Bink-P into his platinum express system, but his tosser is designed to be so integrated with his mailer that I have to make it jump through insane hoops to make it work with any other mailer. I had to use the "filebox" solution to make it work with radius (and it worked quite well with radius) but want something that I know is actively developed.

Also looking at husky.

Allen

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On 06/19/16, Allen Prunty said the following...

Also looking at husky.

You won't find a mailer (most use binkd but but any will do) in husky but it
is one of the most thorough and complete tosser/ticer I have seen.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 06/19/16, Allen Prunty said the following...

You won't find a mailer (most use binkd but but any will do) in husky but it is one of the most thorough and complete tosser/ticer I have seen.

Thanks Alan... just wish it worked for Winserver :-(
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On 06/19/16, Allen Prunty said the following...

Thanks Alan... just wish it worked for Winserver :-(

It has been a very long time since I used windows so I know nothing about winserver. Does it use the netmail attach type outbound?

I'm surprised it doesn't support binkd for todays fidonet. I know Robert
Wolfe uses winserver so he would be a good person to ask about mailer options for that software.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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It has been a very long time since I used windows so I know nothing about winserver. Does it use the netmail attach type outbound?

No it has Platnium Express which is a totally different approach from
Arcmail or Binkley's "Flo" files. It's bizzarre... apparently Internet
Rexx figured it out.

I'm surprised it doesn't support binkd for todays fidonet. I know Robert Wolfe uses winserver so he would be a good person to ask about mailer

options

for that software.

We both use platinum express which is a beautiful tosser... but the
mailer side is lacking binkp... and sadly it will never, ever be added
to it.

Allen
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19 Jun 16 14:42, you wrote to me:

I don't know of any other way to make it "friendly" but it seems
this is the mailer to use for the most compatibility.

what do you mean? all binkd does is send and receive files from BSO
storage using the binkp protocol...

From what I'm being told (in another net) Bink-D has more
connectivity, is ipv6 capable, and is the most actively developed
mailer out there.

don't get lost and overcome by the buzzwords...

Hector could have one hell of a product if he would incorporate Bink-P into his platinum express system, but his tosser is designed to be so integrated with his mailer that I have to make it jump through insane hoops to make it work with any other mailer. I had to use the
"filebox" solution to make it work with radius (and it worked quite
well with radius) but want something that I know is actively
developed.

i forget when the ""filebox"" stuff came along... frontdoor also has support for it within its STQ (aka static queue)... fileboxes are cool and work well for what they do but they do complicate things by needing the files moved into and out of the assigned directories... unless the mail and tic tossers have fileboxe capability, it can be troublesome... it is possible to loose mail and files, too... especially if a file of the same name already exists when a new one arrives or is copied over...

AFAIK, taurus is the only one of the ART family (argus, radius, taurus) that is
still in ""development""... their (delphi[-heavy]) source code is available so anyone can pick them up and work on them as they like...

Also looking at husky.

for what? you've been talking about mailers so far...

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On Jun 19, 2016 06:25pm, Alan Ianson wrote to Allen Prunty:

On 06/19/16, Allen Prunty said the following...

Thanks Alan... just wish it worked for Winserver :-(

It has been a very long time since I used windows so I know nothing
about winserver. Does it use the netmail attach type outbound?

I don't do windows either... might freak some people out but winserver is running in a winebottle on my Mac.

Allen

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On Jun 20, 2016 07:47am, mark lewis wrote to Allen Prunty:

Also looking at husky.

for what? you've been talking about mailers so far...

Well I haven't found Husky yet... so... haven't looked at it enough to know it's a tosser not a mailer.

HOwever if there is a good open source tosser I may try to code again <gasp> it's been a long time and everything runs together. I'm having surgery on my left eye friday to remove the hundreds of floaters that make it so difficult to see... and if that works two weeks later they will do the right eye. If I can see better maybe I can code better.

So frustrating when you are limited by the skin you are in.

Allen

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On 06/21/16, Allen Prunty said the following...

It has been a very long time since I used windows so I know nothing about winserver. Does it use the netmail attach type outbound?

I don't do windows either... might freak some people out but winserver is running in a winebottle on my Mac.

Yep, I read that. I have a bottle like that here too but I don't use it since
I have pretty much everything I need.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 06/21/16, Allen Prunty said the following...

Well I haven't found Husky yet... so... haven't looked at it enough to know it's a tosser not a mailer.

Husky is on sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/husky

It's very mature now and I would say a done deal although there are still releases quite regularly.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hi Allen!

21 Jun 2016 02:33, from Allen Prunty -> Mark Lewis:

Also looking at husky.

for what? you've been talking about mailers so far...

Well I haven't found Husky yet... so... haven't looked at it enough to know it's a tosser not a mailer.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=husky+fido&l=1

HOwever if there is a good open source tosser I may try to code again <gasp> it's been a long time and everything runs together.

Husky is still developed.
It is quit complete, but I am sure the russian developers are happy if you can contribute.

CU, Ricsi

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On Jun 21, 2016 09:35am, Richard Menedetter wrote to Allen Prunty:

Husky is still developed.
It is quit complete, but I am sure the russian developers are happy if
you can contribute.

Let me get my eyes fixed first ... that's my biggest block is my low vision.

Allen

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Hi Allen!

21 Jun 2016 06:20, from Allen Prunty -> Richard Menedetter:

Husky is still developed.
It is quit complete, but I am sure the russian developers are
happy if you can contribute.

Let me get my eyes fixed first ... that's my biggest block is my low vision.

No hurry.
Big contributions are not needed anyhow, as it is quit complete and works great
as it is.

Good luck for your medical procedure.

CU, Ricsi

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21 Jun 16 02:33, you wrote to me:

Also looking at husky.

for what? you've been talking about mailers so far...

Well I haven't found Husky yet... so... haven't looked at it enough to know it's a tosser not a mailer.

husky is a project that maintains numerous tools and utilities... HPT is their tosser... HTIC is their tic processor... they have quite a few more but i only use HPT with GoldED+ on this system... this is also the only system (for now) where i'm using husky stuff... it is a little tricky to get the initial compiling done but once it is done and the procedure order is known (and scripted for future use), it all goes well...

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Re: BinkD with Platium Express
By: mark lewis to Allen Prunty on Mon Jun 20 2016 07:43 am

AFAIK, taurus is the only one of the ART family (argus, radius, taurus) that is still in ""development""... their (delphi[-heavy]) source code is available so anyone can pick them up and work on them as they like...

Rumor had it that Bjorn Felten had the Argus code and was working on an updated version, but I haven't heard/seen anything in a while on that.
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06 Jul 16 09:37, you wrote to me:

AFAIK, taurus is the only one of the ART family (argus, radius,
taurus) that is still in ""development""... their (delphi[-heavy])
source code is available so anyone can pick them up and work on them
as they like...

Rumor had it that Bjorn Felten had the Argus code and was working on
an updated version, but I haven't heard/seen anything in a while on
that.

yup...

FWIW: the sources to all three of the family are available from one site... how
up to date they are with the binaries that have been released is another question...

FWIW2: there has been a few attempts to port the code of at least Taurus to Freepascal/Lazarus but the conversion isn't all that easy even with the Lazarus
conversion tool... there's a lot of stuff from an addon library (jedi IIRC) that has to be removed along with generalizing the delphi and winwhatever specific code so that it can be compiled for linux and winwhatever at least... hopefully OS/2 and MacOS flavours can also be handled...

FWIW3: i'm aware of at least one project to take only the binkp mailer code and
work it into another project... that is taking longer than was expected, too...

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