nelgin wrote to All <=-
Hi all,
I'm considering moving from binkp to binkit for no particular reason
and just wondered who has done this in the past and are there any pros/cons to the process?
I moved from Radius (an Argus clone) to Binkit a couple of years ago,
now. I wanted a mailer that could move with me to Linux.
If memory serves, I created the nodes in echoefg, copied the passwords
and info over, copied my inbound over from Radius and let it rip. I set
that up before filefix and tickit support, so needed to add that in
manually.
I do have a script to automate some areafix and filefix commands
that'll construct the email and then call binkd to send the message. It looks like this isn't possible with binkit at the moment. From what I
can tell you can either poll all the nodes at once that have Poll=Yes
or just poll a node but not send messages.
Synchronet does areafix/filefix, and there's a tickit package that does
most of what an end-node could need.
With binkley format, you could flavor your message Crash and poll the
node, would that work for your scenario?
Nowadays, I set most of my nodes as crash/direct, no need to route for
cost savings these days.
My board has more than one link to fidonet, I assume that's a regular thing and shouldn't be a problem otherwise.
I think you'd just put them both in your areas file, but then you're
packing dupe messages if you're fed all areas by both uplinks, unless
feed1 also feeds feed2? If you have area lists that don't overlap per
uplink, that should be just fine. Binkit won't care, as that's all
happening at the packing stage.
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