Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Getting WWIV for Linux on FTN
From:    Outatime #1 @113
Date:    Wed Jan 24, 2018 22:17

I'm joining my BBS to an FTN today and think I have things set up right. I
probably should have asked here first.

From my reading of the docs, WWIV's network* tools don't handle mail exchange
so I gathered I needed a mailer and installed binkd (pretty easy using
Debian's package manager). I also followed the directions on the WWIV docs to
set up the FTN in init, set up subs, and so on. Now I can exchange mail
manually by running the networkf import/export and triggering binkd to poll
the hub. All I need now is a script on a cron job.

In the network config in init, I picked the "FRO" mail type. Does this type
use the netmail directory at all, or only the inbound/outbound directories?
And what do you do with the nodelist base field?

Did I need to set up binkd or is networkb supposed to be able to handle mail
exchange by itself? I didn't see any options that made sense to me so I
assumed the documentation was still correct that WWIV couldn't do this (yet).

Outatime

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