• Gating email to echomail

    From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Thu Sep 10 15:59:31 2020
    Just wondering what software is out there that will allow for this to happen?

    Suggestions or any guidance appreciated. Thanks :)

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  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Avon on Wed Sep 9 22:22:37 2020
    RE: Re: Gating email to echomail
    BY: Avon(21:1/101)


    Just wondering what software is out there that will allow for this to happen?

    Suggestions or any guidance appreciated. Thanks :)
    Internet Rex might be one option, but that isnt really supported. There is also WCListserv but that is Wildcat! oriented.


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  • From Underminer@21:4/103 to Avon on Thu Sep 10 00:10:11 2020
    Re: Gating email to echomail
    By: Avon to All on Thu Sep 10 2020 11:59 am

    Just wondering what software is out there that will allow for this to happen?
    Suggestions or any guidance appreciated. Thanks :)

    Synchronet has a built in email list module,
    If you need something different I might be able to cobble something together. ===
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  • From alterego@21:2/116 to Avon on Thu Sep 10 16:58:38 2020
    Re: Gating email to echomail
    By: Avon to All on Thu Sep 10 2020 11:59 am

    Just wondering what software is out there that will allow for this to happen?

    Suggestions or any guidance appreciated. Thanks :)

    Synchronet does this pretty well.

    I have mailling lists coming into the BBS - and tossing them for a downstream BBS.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Utopian Galt on Thu Sep 10 19:16:50 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020 at 06:22p, Utopian Galt pondered and said...

    Internet Rex might be one option, but that isnt really supported. There
    is also WCListserv but that is Wildcat! oriented.

    Thanks for the tips. I tend to agree Rex is very old now and I'm aware has a few niggles talking to some mailers etc. Good to know about Wildcat too.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Underminer on Thu Sep 10 19:17:37 2020
    On 09 Sep 2020 at 08:10p, Underminer pondered and said...

    Synchronet has a built in email list module,
    If you need something different I might be able to cobble something together. ===

    Thanks :) Yeah I have started to look at this. Thanks for the offer of help too.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to alterego on Thu Sep 10 19:20:30 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020 at 12:58p, alterego pondered and said...

    Synchronet does this pretty well.

    I have mailling lists coming into the BBS - and tossing them for a downstream BBS.

    Coolio, I took a look at the wiki and it looks to be a listserv run by the
    BBS that will gate incoming emails to echomail groups - right?

    What I would like to do is gate an external listserv in/out of a fsxNet echomail area. Figured it would be doable, just started pondering what
    software I could set up to do so. Another thing to add to my TO-DO and on to
    a new Linux box :)

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Underminer on Thu Sep 10 21:13:00 2020
    On 09-09-20 20:10, Underminer wrote to Avon <=-

    Re: Gating email to echomail
    By: Avon to All on Thu Sep 10 2020 11:59 am

    Just wondering what software is out there that will allow for this to happen?
    Suggestions or any guidance appreciated. Thanks :)

    Synchronet has a built in email list module,
    If you need something different I might be able to cobble something together. ===

    Synchronet can do a few things:

    Host a full blownm mailing list. This works really well, and I use the listserver here.

    Gate an existing mailing list to an echom. Again, works well, though some mailing lists have touchy bounce managers, which can be tricky to handle with a gated echo.

    Post emails sent to a specific email address to an echo - useful for distributing Internet based updates to echomail, if it has a text/plain MIME type part.

    There's a lot of good email integration in Synchronet. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Thu Sep 10 21:14:00 2020
    On 09-10-20 15:20, Avon wrote to alterego <=-

    What I would like to do is gate an external listserv in/out of a fsxNet echomail area. Figured it would be doable, just started pondering what software I could set up to do so. Another thing to add to my TO-DO and
    on to a new Linux box :)

    Look up listgate.js (ListGate) on the Synchronet wiki. That will do what you want. :)


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vk3jed on Thu Sep 10 23:49:04 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020 at 05:14p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    Look up listgate.js (ListGate) on the Synchronet wiki. That will do
    what you want. :)

    started to look at that today, since I know little of Synchronet at this
    stage it was a bit of a shallow dive for now.

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  • From Underminer@21:4/103 to Vk3jed on Thu Sep 10 06:19:50 2020
    Re: Re: Gating email to echomail
    By: Vk3jed to Underminer on Thu Sep 10 2020 05:13 pm

    There's a lot of good email integration in Synchronet. :)

    Oh, I know there is and it's why it was the first part of my suggestion :)

    Just before knowing what specifically Paul was looking for I figured I'd offer help as well if it was something less standard or wanting to avoid another full bbs stack in the mix since I've recently had to write some email parsers for a ticket handling sytem, and have been playing with writing a basic tosser to play with the possibility of using FTN networking in a couple more modern projects, so figured it wouldn't be overly crazy to customize something if needed.
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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Thu Sep 10 22:56:00 2020
    On 09-10-20 19:49, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    started to look at that today, since I know little of Synchronet at
    this stage it was a bit of a shallow dive for now.

    There's plenty of us here who can help. ;)


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Underminer on Thu Sep 10 22:59:00 2020
    On 09-10-20 02:19, Underminer wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Re: Re: Gating email to echomail
    By: Vk3jed to Underminer on Thu Sep 10 2020 05:13 pm

    There's a lot of good email integration in Synchronet. :)

    Oh, I know there is and it's why it was the first part of my suggestion
    :)

    Indeed. :)

    Just before knowing what specifically Paul was looking for I figured
    I'd offer help as well if it was something less standard or wanting to avoid another full bbs stack in the mix since I've recently had to
    write some email parsers for a ticket handling sytem, and have been playing with writing a basic tosser to play with the possibility of
    using FTN networking in a couple more modern projects, so figured it wouldn't be overly crazy to customize something if needed.

    The other alternative would be to use some form of email to FTN gateway, but most of those are unmaintained, and some, like GIGO, were designed before the days of mailing lists restricting posts to subscribers only, which means they'd only be one way gates in today's environment.


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  • From alterego@21:2/116 to Avon on Fri Sep 11 01:12:45 2020
    Re: Re: Gating email to echomail
    By: Avon to alterego on Thu Sep 10 2020 03:20 pm

    Coolio, I took a look at the wiki and it looks to be a listserv run by the BBS that will gate incoming emails to echomail groups - right?

    Yes right. Although I have to admit, I havent tested "outbound" (ie: echomail sending back out to the list) - but I'm assume it works...

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Avon on Thu Sep 10 19:36:07 2020
    Avon wrote to All <=-

    Just wondering what software is out there that will allow for this to happen?

    Suggestions or any guidance appreciated. Thanks :)

    I can second the suggestion of Synchronet. I used to use Internet Rex
    quite a while back. It may still allow you to do some things that
    Synchronet would not, but it also has some bugs that will likely never be fixed. Synchronet's method is pretty easy to set up. I currently only use
    it to bring in traffic, but there is also a way to set it up to allow for
    2-way traffic if so desired.


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Blue White on Fri Sep 11 15:20:39 2020
    On 10 Sep 2020 at 03:36p, Blue White pondered and said...

    I can second the suggestion of Synchronet. I used to use Internet Rex quite a while back. It may still allow you to do some things that Synchronet would not, but it also has some bugs that will likely never be fixed. Synchronet's method is pretty easy to set up. I currently only use it to bring in traffic, but there is also a way to set it up to
    allow for 2-way traffic if so desired.

    Thanks :) Good to know and appreciate your reply / info.

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  • From Oli@21:3/102 to Vk3jed on Tue Oct 13 14:51:02 2020
    Vk3jed wrote (2020-09-10):

    Host a full blownm mailing list. This works really well, and I use the listserver here.

    How does it work with DKIM signed mails? I subscribed to some mailing lists that always end in the spam folder on my gmail address.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Oli on Thu Oct 15 23:41:00 2020
    On 10-13-20 10:51, Oli wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Vk3jed wrote (2020-09-10):

    Host a full blownm mailing list. This works really well, and I use the listserver here.

    How does it work with DKIM signed mails? I subscribed to some mailing lists that always end in the spam folder on my gmail address.

    That I don't know.


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Oli on Fri Dec 17 19:25:00 2021
    On 10-13-20 10:51, Oli wrote to Vk3jed <=-


    Vk3jed wrote (2020-09-10):

    Host a full blownm mailing list. This works really well, and I use the listserver here.

    How does it work with DKIM signed mails? I subscribed to some mailing lists that always end in the spam folder on my gmail address.

    Goog question, but I increasingly use gmail filters to prevent mailing list mail going to spam.


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