How many of you are not using the built in mailer and tosser and are using third party software such as BinkD/Argus/Irex or HPT/Fmail/Crashmail with your Mystic or Synchronet systems?
Why do you ask?
With Mystic and Sync being the all-in-one heavyweights I was curious as to how many sysops out there like to fiddle and build their systems manually instead of doing everything through one package.
Ahh - so I thought I'd might add, I've in the process of changing Synchronets "i nterface" to be similar to ViewData/Videotex (but with ANSI). I hope to be able to extend it's telnet interface to support the original Viewdata chars (40x22) a s well, but I'll wait until I get the plumbing right, and I find more hours in t he day, before I can see if I can add that. (I did write this implemenatation wi th a browser
interface, using cockroach DB, but I changing track when I thought SBBS could do it for me - saves me writing the mail management.)
Dont know if anybody else is interested in this, but I'm enjoying having
a go...
On 03-20-20 00:31, Netsurge wrote to All <=-
Out of curiosity for those running Mystic or Synchronet.
How many of you are not using the built in mailer and tosser and are
using third party software such as BinkD/Argus/Irex or
HPT/Fmail/Crashmail with your Mystic or Synchronet systems?
On 03-20-20 15:45, alterego wrote to Netsurge <=-
On windows I'm using binkit AND Taurus (new Argus?)
I did have Taurus doing everything, but I now have binkit looking after binkp and Taurus looking after EMSI connects.
On 03-20-20 16:16, alterego wrote to Netsurge <=-
In addition to this, I'm making it "InterBBS" - so the Viewdata
experience can be viewed on any (at the moment Synchronet) BBS, with frames being edited on "your" BBS (owning a page prefix) and sent via echomail to other BBSes signed with pgp (so the sysop changing the
frame is in their prefix that they are allowed to change).
Dont know if anybody else is interested in this, but I'm enjoying
having a go...
I've got some functionality there - but its a big project and I have
too many things on the go, so I'm chipping away at it slowly. Some of
it is working on my BBS already...
How many of you are not using the built in mailer and tosser and are
using third party software such as BinkD/Argus/Irex or
HPT/Fmail/Crashmail with your Mystic or Synchronet systems?
Now this sounds cool, I'd be interested in playing with that.
On 03-20-20 20:40, alterego wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Re: Re: Curious
By: Vk3jed to alterego on Fri Mar 20 2020 06:17 pm
Now this sounds cool, I'd be interested in playing with that.
Well, I'm scheduled for leave soon, and given this virus we wont be
going anywhere. Was scheduled to take the family to Pambula (East Coast
of AU - on the beach), but now we'll probably be stuck at home. The
upside hopefully will mean I can spend some time building this out
more.
I have frames being sent between BBSes - but only manually importing
them (via a jsexec I've written, only after manually creating them with Moebus or your favourite ANSI editor). I'm hoping to have on BBS frame editing with an ANSI editor - and I hope that I can leverage something that's already there (I think written by Deuce). Once that is in place "information frames" should be up and running, and then I need to work
out responsive frames (input forms - which will also be the basis of native message creation and replying).
Why do you ask?
With Mystic and Sync being the all-in-one heavyweights I was
curious as to how many sysops out there like to fiddle and build
their systems manually instead of doing everything through one
package.
I'm using Mystic with its built-in binkp.
Is there an advantage to externalizing this?
Hehe I like building my systems manually. :P
How many of you are not using the built in mailer and tosser and are
using third party software such as BinkD/Argus/Irex or
HPT/Fmail/Crashmail with your Mystic or Synchronet systems?
Ever tried linux from scratch? I did it once, that was enough for me. :DHehe I like building my systems manually. :P
To the most literal sense!
I'm using Mystic with its built-in binkp.
Is there an advantage to externalizing this?
I'm using the built in stuff. It works and I've had no reason to change it/experiment with other programs.
Ever tried linux from scratch? I did it once, that was enough for me.
In the beginning binkd made sense just for stability reasons, so that would be the advantage. I don't think that is much of a factor anymore. I've never seen binkd handling 30-40+ connections at once (I'm sure it can) but I know Mystic does it regularly without issue.
In the beginning binkd made sense just for stability reasons, so that would be the advantage. I don't think that is much of a factor anymore. I've never seen binkd handling 30-40+ connections at once (I'm sure it can) but I know Mystic does it regularly without issue.
Now its getting to the point where there are some useful things the
built ins are doing like SSL and AES-256 encryption that the externals
do not. So as long as the internal stuff isn't missing a feature you absolutely need, I don't see much or any advantage anymore.
Another advantage to not externalizing is that when everything is tightly coupled, its much faster/easier to set up and manage. There is so much redundancy in configuration when using all external stuff and its easy
for human error to be a factor, especially with how cryptic they make their configurations.
I have never rolled my own kernel or anything like that but many moons
ago I used gentoo frequently and it was all self compiled.
SciNet's NNTP/e-mail gateway runs on a Slackware server that was compiled from scratch (apart from the bootstrapping of course).
These days I just use Manjaro(arch) or Ubuntu. At work we use CentOS so
I still have my RH chops :)
Can Mystic's binkp server handle freq requests or start external scripts when it detects a specific file or extension.
I rely heavily on BinkD's exec processes to run external freq requests.
A46 'mis poll' handles concurrency, right? Or maybe I should use the term multithreading instead. I think performance when crashing mail to that many downstream nodes is key.
Do you use it for anything other than FREQ or just for FREQ?
Out of curiosity for those running Mystic or Synchronet.
How many of you are not using the built in mailer and tosser and are
using third party software such as BinkD/Argus/Irex or
HPT/Fmail/Crashmail with your Mystic or Synchronet systems?
On 03-20-20 20:40, alterego wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Re: Re: Curious
By: Vk3jed to alterego on Fri Mar 20 2020 06:17 pm
Now this sounds cool, I'd be interested in playing with that.
Well, I'm scheduled for leave soon, and given this virus we wont be
going anywhere. Was scheduled to take the family to Pambula (East Coast
of AU - on the beach), but now we'll probably be stuck at home. The
upside hopefully will mean I can spend some time building this out
more.
I have frames being sent between BBSes - but only manually importing
them (via a jsexec I've written, only after manually creating them with Moebus or your favourite ANSI editor). I'm hoping to have on BBS frame editing with an ANSI editor - and I hope that I can leverage something that's already there (I think written by Deuce). Once that is in place "information frames" should be up and running, and then I need to work
out responsive frames (input forms - which will also be the basis of native message creation and replying).
Ahh, so many ideas, so little time...
... A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
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