Subj : Looking for a simple BBS with fidonet connectivity
To   : Michael Mrak
From : Oli
Date : Tue Feb 02 2021 01:06 pm

Michael wrote (2021-02-01):

 MM> And because it just has to be, I now want to get a BBS up and running as
 MM> well. Criteria would be connection to Fidonet, as simple and as text
 MM> oriented as possible (so no ANSI gimmicks) and of course it should run on
 MM> the same Debian system as Binkley & Co.

 MM> Do you have any tips what I should look at best here?

I sounds Maximus would be the perfect fit, unfortunately it is unmaintained for 
a long time. I wasn't able to compile it on a recent Linux distro. It was 
ported to gcc 3.x a long time ago, but after that nobody touched the sources 
anymore. I loved Maximus for being very simple in the default install, but also 
very extensible.

Besides the closed sourced Mystic there is Enigma½ and Synchronet. All three 
are bigger packages and have everything included (only Enigma doesn't inlcude a 
mailer).

A very new project is Talisman BBS. It uses a Squish message base.

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