Fidonet (v3 era)

[daniel_spain]

some progress announcements and i will now use this thread going forward to post progression...

last night i was successful in integrating fidonet into a worldgroup 3.20 base install using the tools i created.

with that said...

it doesn't mean its ready for all sysops to run fidonet via their forums, there is still a lot of trial-and-error left
but i am making heavy progress.

using WGFTNI.EXE and WGFTNO.EXE (in and out processor) and binkd i was easily able to toss the messages and process
them in their respective directories... ofc the biggest headaches have been rewriting them to use the Btrieve style forum
messages but still doable... there has been some issues when receiving certain packet types such as files, but it does
try...

with fidonet you have to make sure First/Last names are on your bbs to stay with protocols as i do not send userid i send spr("%s %s",first,last)
as the sender which also poses a lot of "reworking" because i need wg to accept messages to not only your userid but your first and last name as well
which, you guessed it, poses an issue if there are multiple people using bs first and last names.

also been working on some QWK-net type messaging like synchronet did with their 3.00c release which allows you to join qwk-net style networks
but lemme crawl then walk...

best news is most "changes" needing to be done can literally be done to individual baseline addons not the entire core itself.

more to come.

[Duckula]

There is now a GALFTN module that will be released in the next version of V10.

It uses bink as the transport, has a mail tosser and has been undergoing testing on a live system.

Echoes are mapped to forums correctly, including threading.

Netmail is mapped to email correctly including backtracking and attachments.

GALFTN v1 will support a single FidoNet node, while v2 will add multi-net support for other networks such as fsx.