Subj : NZ.TEST
To   : vorlon
From : Oli
Date : Thu Feb 04 2021 10:55:18

vorlon wrote (2021-02-04):

 v>> Great. MBSE is a option for you if you can't get soupgate doing
 v>> what you want. Although it's a full BBS package, you could just
 v>> use it to do the news gating.

 Ol>> It's also not doing the gating right (see my the reply to Avon's
 Ol>> first reply), better than soupgate though.

 v> The advantage to MBSE if Avon wanted to go down that route, is that the
 v> code is maintained to this day and is in active dev.

AFAIK the original developer doesn't work on it anymore and the new repo doesn't even include the commit history from the original source code. Which is odd, because there was already a maintained repo on github.

I tried MBSE a longer time ago (I think when it was still developed by it's original author). What I didn't like was that it created an OS user account for every BBS user. I only would run it in a separate container.

 v> My setup for news groups is like this:

 v> MBSE talks to Leafnode (Filtering features), and leafnode talks to the
 v> NNTP server (In this case it's Avon's).

I remember MBSE had everything included (BBS, Tosser, Mailer, NNTP and more). Is it possible to use MBSE as a gateway that processes mail without running the complete system? (I don't remember in detail how MBSE worked).

The mails gated by MBSE look somewhat better than the ones from soupgate, but there are still many problems. What would be the advantage of MBSE over e.g. Synchronet?

I still would love to see something that is as simple to use as soupgate (without being a complete BBS+everything package) and as competent as fidogate.

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