Hi all,
I have just set my Excelsior BBS back up via telnet on my A1200 after having been down since 1996. I carried both Fidonet and Amiganet echoes back then. I am wanting to set this up again but no longer have a landline, I am strictly using telnet only. \

Cam anyone help direct me what software I should use to get Fidonet/AmigaNet going again with Excelsior?

Thanks,
Tim
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Running Excelsior! BBS
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Hi all,
I have just set my Excelsior BBS back up via telnet on my A1200 after having
been down since 1996. I carried both Fidonet and Amiganet echoes
back then. I
am wanting to set this up again but no longer have a landline, I am strictly
using telnet only. \

Cam anyone help direct me what software I should use to get Fidonet/AmigaNet
going again with Excelsior?

Don't know anything about Excelsior but you can either go with Binkd on your Amiga and suffer a bit since it will crash frequently or you can try to find a hub to poll from that supports IEMSI and use Trapdoor.

I run Binkd on a Linux box, do tossing with Crashmail II on the same Linux box and then imports/exports all fidonet stuff via NFS to my Amiga. It's a pretty crazy setup in a way but it actually works fine.


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Hi Tim,

On 2018-04-24 20:33:49, you wrote to All:

I have just set my Excelsior BBS back up via telnet on my A1200 after having been down since 1996. I carried both Fidonet and Amiganet
echoes back then. I am wanting to set this up again but no longer
have a landline, I am strictly using telnet only. \

Cam anyone help direct me what software I should use to get Fidonet/AmigaNet going again with Excelsior?

Does Excelsior do it's own polling for FTN mail, or does it use an external mailer (Trapdoor)?

Bye, Wilfred.

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On Tuesday April 24, 2018, Tim Grooms said to All...

Hi all, I have just set my Excelsior BBS back up via telnet on my A1200 after having been down since 1996. I carried both Fidonet and Amiganet echoes back then. I am wanting to set this up again but no longer have
a landline, I am strictly using telnet only. \
Cam anyone help direct me what software I should use to get Fidonet/AmigaNet going again with Excelsior?
Thanks, Tim ciaamigabbs.dynu.net:6400 Running Excelsior! BBS

Let me know if you have any issues as I'm running my system on an Amiga. I'd
be glad to give you a hand.

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On 04/24/18, Tim Grooms said the following...

Hi all,
I have just set my Excelsior BBS back up via telnet on my A1200 after having been down since 1996. I carried both Fidonet and Amiganet echoes back then. I am wanting to set this up again but no longer have a landline, I am strictly using telnet only. \

Cam anyone help direct me what software I should use to get Fidonet/AmigaNet going again with Excelsior?

All you need to do is replace Trapdoor with BinkD for transferring packets to and from your host. Nothing else changes.. You still use E!'s mail processing tools. You just can't launch a node from BinkD like you can from trapdoor because all binkd does is transfer mail. you will still need to setup a
working telnetd.device for each node you wish to run (change unit # for each node)

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On 04/25/18, Joacim Melin said the following...

I run Binkd on a Linux box, do tossing with Crashmail II on the same
Linux box and then imports/exports all fidonet stuff via NFS to my
Amiga. It's a pretty crazy setup in a way but it actually works fine.

I didn't quite go to that extreme but I used linux binkd to get the mail then used binkd's inpath and exported to filebox

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Re: Re: Getting Excelsior BBS back into FidoNet and AmigaNet
By: Wilfred van Velzen to Tim Grooms on Wed Apr 25 2018 08:26:33

Hi Tim,

On 2018-04-24 20:33:49, you wrote to All:

I have just set my Excelsior BBS back up via telnet on my A1200 after having been down since 1996. I carried both Fidonet and Amiganet echoes back then. I am wanting to set this up again but no longer
have a landline, I am strictly using telnet only. \

Cam anyone help direct me what software I should use to get Fidonet/AmigaNet going again with Excelsior?

Does Excelsior do it's own polling for FTN mail, or does it use an external mailer (Trapdoor)?

Bye, Wilfred.

It came with a registered copy of Trapdoor which I still have.
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Re: Re: Getting Excelsior BBS back into FidoNet and AmigaNet
By: Frank Linhares to Tim Grooms on Sat Apr 28 2018 00:56:53

On Tuesday April 24, 2018, Tim Grooms said to All...

Hi all, I have just set my Excelsior BBS back up via telnet on my A1200 after having been down since 1996. I carried both Fidonet and Amiganet echoes back then. I am wanting to set this up again but no longer have a landline, I am strictly using telnet only. \
Cam anyone help direct me what software I should use to get Fidonet/AmigaNet going again with Excelsior?
Thanks, Tim ciaamigabbs.dynu.net:6400 Running Excelsior! BBS

Let me know if you have any issues as I'm running my system on an Amiga. I'd be glad to give you a hand.

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Are you using binkd?
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Re: Re: Getting Excelsior BBS back into FidoNet and AmigaNet
By: Dave Vandermeer to Tim Grooms on Sat Apr 28 2018 11:42:23

On 04/24/18, Tim Grooms said the following...

Hi all,
I have just set my Excelsior BBS back up via telnet on my A1200 after having been down since 1996. I carried both Fidonet and Amiganet echoe back then. I am wanting to set this up again but no longer have a landline, I am strictly using telnet only. \

Cam anyone help direct me what software I should use to get Fidonet/AmigaNet going again with Excelsior?

All you need to do is replace Trapdoor with BinkD for transferring packets t and from your host. Nothing else changes.. You still use E!'s mail processin tools. You just can't launch a node from BinkD like you can from trapdoor because all binkd does is transfer mail. you will still need to setup a working telnetd.device for each node you wish to run (change unit # for each node)

Ok thanks. I'm going to look into binkd. Does anyone know what the last version number was?
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On Friday May 18, 2018, Tim Grooms said to Frank Linhares...

I'd
be glad to give you a hand.

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Are you using binkd?

Yes, but I can easily provide anything else that works for you including dial-up.
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