From: etmelag@dcrosby27.ericsson.se (Louis Lagendijk) Subject: Re: Port Fido Mailer to Linux Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 07:38:19 GMT
In article <1qecup$fck@cismsun.univ-lyon1.fr> cas@cismibm.univ-lyon1.fr (Laurent Cas) writes:
>Louis Lagendijk (etmelag@dcrosby27.ericsson.se) wrote:
>
>I thought Binkley was running yet under linux ? didn't it ?
>by the way, let us know when you will release your fidonet
>package as many of us are very interested in it...
>
Yes, Binkley is up and running since october last year. What I want
to release now is an updated version with a number of bug fixes.
The new version will also compile on BSD systems. Ben Stuyts
ported Binkley to the Next, I used his port to get something
working for Linux. The new version is coordinated between us, so it
will compile under (at least) the Next and Linux.
>what will you use for nodelist support ? RFmail and binkley are
>two mailers, aren't they ? why release them in the same package ?
Currently both Rfmail and Binkley use their own nodelists. I will
try to update Rfmail to use the Binkley (version 6) nodelist.
Rfmail also includes a mailer (very simple) but I never used it.
Rfmail is primarily intended as a fido <-> news/mail gateway so
it requires news, (s)mail, a mail interface (e.g. Elm) and a newsreader.
It does work quite well at the moment, even though a lot of fido people
would like to see native fido compatible programs a setup with Rfmail `
works for me.
>
Cheers, Louis