Subj : Re: Modem/Dialup options for Mystic
To   : dejavu
From : Zip
Date : Tue Jun 16 2020 07:57:35

Hello dejavu!

On 15 Jun 2020, dejavu said the following...
 de> Are there any native Modem/Dialup support options available for Mystic? 
 de> 
 de> I've heard some people mentioning Frontdoor, TSPSER, and several others.
 de> I'm using Linux and I'd like it to be transparent and just work like my
 de> PCBoard BBS did in the 90's.

I'm using mgetty which can handle incoming modem calls and also transfer FTN
logins to e.g. ifcico for processing of incoming mail over dial-up.

The downside is that you will always get a login: prompt (albeit with an
informative banner above it), requiring ordinary users to type in a username
(e.g. "bbs", matching a local user account on your machine) before they get
transferred to the BBS. The actual transfer is (at least in my case) made by
way of a script launching telnet to a local port which the BBS listens on. And
then the user will have to login to the BBS "as usual".

mgetty can also do some other things, e.g. handle fax calls.

I'd be glad to share my configs if you would go the mgetty way. :)

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/21 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

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