Subj : Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbi
To   : Accession
From : Gamgee
Date : Fri Nov 07 2025 21:15:52

-=> Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-

 > I am now seeing the value of this method...
 > Would you mind sharing the scripts?  (don't need the MultiMail one).

 Ac> Sure thing. As long as your on a personal computer, and don't share it
 Ac> with others:

 Ac> getpkt:

 Ac> #!/bin/bash

 Ac> cd /home/user/mmail/down
 Ac> wget --ftp-user=<username> --ftp-password=<password>
 Ac> ftp://<yourBBSaddress>/<BBSID>.qwk

 Ac> cd /home/user/mmail

 Ac> putpkt:

 Ac> #!/bin/bash

 Ac> cd /home/user/mmail/up

 Ac> ftp -nv <<EOF
 Ac> open <yourBBSaddress>
 Ac> user <username> <password>
 Ac> bin
 Ac> put <BBSID>.rep
 Ac> quit
 Ac> EOF

 Ac> rm <BBSID>.rep

 Ac> cd /home/user/mmail

 Ac> Technically you could use the FTP method for both transfers (using
 Ac> 'get' instead of put), but I did the script with 'wget' first, and soon
 Ac> after realized 'wput' was a thing at some point, but isn't maintained
 Ac> anymore and isn't in my distro's repositories.

Ack.

 Ac> Change your paths to match your system, fill in your authentication
 Ac> information, make them executable, and you're off to the races!

Yes, understood.  The "put" direction makes good sense to me.  I have a 
question about the "get" side though - What causes the BBS to know to 
pack up all the new messages into a QWK packet though?  Does just the 
act of requesting <BBSID>.qwk cause that to happen?  I was thinking I'd 
have to somehow "tell" the BBS to create the new QWK packet, and *then* 
grab it with wget/ftp.

 Ac> FYI, I don't remove the QWK packet, because I can do that in Multimail
 Ac> once I'm done reading/replying. But I do remove the .REP packet after I
 Ac> send it, otherwise the next time I run that script it'll send it again,
 Ac> probably causing dupes. Unless there's some fancy numbering of .REP
 Ac> packets Multimail does that I don't yet know about (I didn't read the
 Ac> docs, I just figured MM out by mashing buttons, lol).

Understood, and I use MM that way too, just deleting the QWK packet as 
I"m exiting MM after reading/replying.

 Ac> Regards,
 Ac> Nick

Appreciate you taking the time to send/explain this!  Thanks.

Dan




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