Re: Open source front end and tosser for Mystic/Synchronet
  By: Michael Balcos to Alan Ianson on Fri Sep 16 2005 04:57 am

Hello Michael,

 >  AI> I'm not sure what message base format Mystic uses, JAM or Squish? In
 >  AI> that case you could use HPT from Husky. You can check out the husky
 > 
 > I believe Mystic supports both JAM and Squish. Does Crashmail II support JAM

I have never tried Crashmail, not sure.

 > About Synchronet, I found it to be a good piece of software. However, is the
 > latest stable release impossible to use for dial-up users? According to some
 > documentation, it is for telnet use only.

Yes, the 3.x versions are designed as a telnet only BBS package. It is
still compatible with the 2.x Dos and OS/2 versions (3.20 likely will
not be) some some folks do run a number of dial up nodes that way. The
2.x version don't have all the features that 3.x does also.

I don't know if the 2.x version can be built on linux. That could
be a problem. I know that some folks are running dial up nodes with
Synchronet somehow fakeing it out so Sync will handle the call as
a telnet connection. I have no idea how that is done though.

I would ask in the Synchronet echo and see if anyone there has
done it on linux and can shed some light.

I did see on someones web page that Rob Swindell is thinking of
or going to add dial up support to Synchronet. That was something
I just read in my travels though, I don't know if it's true or
not since I have never seen that on the Sync web page or docs.

If you post the question in the Sync echo there is a good chance
Rob will answer himself (he's very active there), and you will
get difinitive answers about Sync from quite a few of the folks
there.


 Ttyl :-),
         Al
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