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  • SBBS and Self-Hosted email

    From Deepthaw@VERT/CORTEX to All on Sun Nov 8 05:31:52 2020
    My experiments with MBSE have come to an end, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to run with SBBS under Linux.

    I know it has an extremely robust number of servers already out there - including SMTP/POP3/IMAP for email.

    Is it possible to have SBBS interface with my own self-hosted email server as much as possible? I've got postfix & dovecot running along pretty smoothly along with a pretty nice webmail interface I'd like to offer to validated users but that'd require them having accounts on the server itself.

    I know this is a pretty loaded question -- there's a *lot* that would be involved but I wanted to start getting some ideas as to what I can do.

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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Deepthaw on Tue Nov 10 21:41:53 2020
    On 11/7/2020 2:31 PM, Deepthaw wrote:
    My experiments with MBSE have come to an end, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to
    run with SBBS under Linux.

    I know it has an extremely robust number of servers already out there - including SMTP/POP3/IMAP for email.

    Is it possible to have SBBS interface with my own self-hosted email server as much as possible? I've got postfix & dovecot running along pretty smoothly along with a pretty nice webmail interface I'd like to offer to validated users
    but that'd require them having accounts on the server itself.

    I know this is a pretty loaded question -- there's a *lot* that would be involved but I wanted to start getting some ideas as to what I can do.

    it may take some work, but you can have SBBS run on non-standard ports,
    and forward your inbound postfix to SBBS on a given domain, etc. Though
    most will use dedicated Synchronet.

    It's easy enough to relay Synchronet's outbound SMTP through another
    server as well. I don't think Sync supports domainkeys or other message signing support, so delivery is usually the biggest issue in practice, relaying through a well-known service could help as well.

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    Michael J. Ryan
    tracker1 +o Roughneck BBS

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