Hello ROBERT.

22 Apr 16 01:45, you wrote to me:

 RW> -=> Jeff Smith wrote to All <=-

 JS>> I guess I never paid that much attention. Is BBBS capable of
 JS>> providing a Fido or FTN feed via FTP? I had a recent  request for
 JS>> an FTP feed but haven't upto this point looked at that
 JS>> capability. Least not since the John Souvestre days.

 JS>> I know that BBBS can call out via FTP. I have written several
 JS>> bash scripts that will do that. But haven't looked at BBBS  being
 JS>> capable of feeding downlinks via FTP. I have ProFTPd  installed
 JS>> but it is a little overkill for the task. Anyone  have thoughts?

 RW> The answer to your question, to the best of my knowledge, is no.  To
 RW> do this, you would need a third party FTP server running and scripts
 RW> written to move mail packets to and from your BBBS machine.

Yeah. I went ahead and setup ProFTPd to use Linux's own user authentication
abilities to control ftp user access. Each ftp user is limited to their
particular ftp home directory and it's subs. Then BBBS's tosser puts and
looks in the ftp user(s) subs when tossing.

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Jeff

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