Subj : Re: NZ.TEST
To   : Oli
From : vorlon
Date : Wed Feb 10 2021 11:46 am

Hi Oli,

 Ol> vorlon wrote (2021-02-04):
 
 v>> Great. MBSE is a option for you if you can't get soupgate
 v>> doing what you want. Although it's a full BBS package, you
 v>> could just use it to do the news gating.
 
 Ol>> It's also not doing the gating right (see my the reply to
 Ol>> Avon's first reply), better than soupgate though.

Send in a pacth then. #-)

 
 v> The advantage to MBSE if Avon wanted to go down that route, is
 v> that the code is maintained to this day and is in active dev.
 
 Ol> AFAIK the original developer doesn't work on it anymore and the new
 Ol> repo doesn't even include the commit history from the original
[...]
 Ol> by it's original author). What I didn't like was that it created an
 Ol> OS user account for every BBS user. I only would run it in a

I've been using MBSE since 2007, initially as a full bbs and then latter
as just a mailhub.


 Ol> separate container.
 
 v> My setup for news groups is like this:
 
 v> MBSE talks to Leafnode (Filtering features), and leafnode talks
 v> to the NNTP server (In this case it's Avon's).
 
 Ol> I remember MBSE had everything included (BBS, Tosser, Mailer, NNTP
 Ol> and more). Is it possible to use MBSE as a gateway that processes
 Ol> mail without running the complete system? (I don't remember in
 Ol> detail how MBSE worked).

Even though the bbs functions are still there, none of them are enabled
for my system.

 
 Ol> The mails gated by MBSE look somewhat better than the ones from
 Ol> soupgate, but there are still many problems. What would be the
 Ol> advantage of MBSE over e.g. Synchronet?

I've only seen Synchronet from a user point of view and I did't like the
way it operated, so never looked at the sysop side.

 Ol> I still would love to see something that is as simple to use as
 Ol> soupgate (without being a complete BBS+everything package) and as
 Ol> competent as fidogate.

The quickest way would be to fix the bugs in soupgate.




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