Hello Ingo!

Sunday August 20 2017 15:18, you wrote to All:

 >    Hello everybody!

 > I'm searching a BBS software to run on Debian Linux. Yesterday I
 > started to take a closer look at MBSE and so far it is quite
 > promising.

 > However, I have some questions:

 > - MBSE brings in a full Fido node environment, i.e. mailer, tosser,
 > whatever. But I'm already running Husky and Binkd for my mailer/tosser
 > and would like to keep it that way. How can I integrate MBSE into my
 > existing Husky setup? BBS users should read all/some echoareas

Yes it is fully integrated but does use elements from other older bbs systems
that have been modified for that integration including binkd but as a small
part of. As for Husky, yes I was also using it before moving to mbse but as it
has its problems moved the entire shooting match over, if nothing else to
simplify the setup, processing and more importantly reduced cpu usage although
these days I now use a AMD 8350 8 core? and total system load is at or below 
1%
and that also includes apache, ftp, minidlna, mysql and some other servers
and services such as mainframe.

During a entire system virus check it does go up to may be 10% but there is 9+
Tb of files to check - I must exclude the Linux and m/f areas which if nothing
else will reduce running time currently at 6 hours.



 > - basically the same for fileareas: I would like MBSE to make use of
 > the existing fileareas, so that BBS users can download for example
 > from the Aminet archive. But MBSE shouldn't alter anything of that
 > filebase, i.e. not doing any maintenance (neither file- nor
 > echoareas).

 > - same for newsgroups: I already run a full featured Inn2 setup. Maybe
 > that's the easiest part, because I could just point MBSEs own nntpd to
 > a different port and establish a normal feed between both inn servers.
 > But that mean to have articles twice on disk, so I would like to avoid
 > this, if possible.

Never used that but it might be alright however mbse can handle that as well
(within the normal mail/email functions) as I use it but for a very limited
number of areas.

 > If there's any documentation beside the generated one you can point me
 > to, this would appreciated as well! :-)

In the docs directory I have created a .pdf manual but it does come from the
.html sources but is some what easier to read - OK, for me anyway.

One of the nice features for mail areas and likewise files is you can set it 
to
automatically add any new areas that are coming in to the system providing you
have up to date copies of FILEGATE.ZXX and other similar area lists and
likewise the fidonet type echo lists e.g., sportsnet.

Some other readers may be able to provide more info.



Vince

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