Subj : Usenet/News to FTN gateway software?
To   : tassiebob
From : John Goerzen
Date : Sat Jul 02 2022 08:21 pm

Hi Bob,

Back in the day, I ran a BBS using the tools in ifmail.  It includes an
interface to the local mailing system (SMTP) and Usenet system (INN, usually).

There is a pretty big difference between this and what Synchronet is doing.
Synchronet connects to a remote NNTP server as a user, and logs in as that user
to post.  It downloads news to its local Synchronet database.  Basically, its
idea is to pull the Internet stuff into the BBS world.

The opposite is true of ifmail; it is designed to pull the BBS world into the
Linux environment.  It assumes standard Linux accounts for mail, news, etc.
You would participate on Fidonet using Pine, or a regular IMAP client, or a
regular NNTP client, etc.

The ifmail package is still maintained in Debian.

You can use it with its integrated ifcico, but I believe it is also compatible
with binkd (also still maintained in Debian).

John
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