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    From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Mon Sep 18 16:10:07 2017
    Re: On The Twit List
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Sep 18 2017 02:50 pm

    What instant messenger do you have to run? I don't recall reading

    The Synchronet SMTP server still supports instant-messages / telegrams, but the inter-bbs instant messaging system now uses MSP (message sending protocol) instead, which is not a widely-blocked port/protocol.

    The inter-bbs instant messaging system used to use UDP-Finger for querying who's on each system, but now it uses the SYSTAT/Active User protocol (also UDP) instead.

    "new" protocols in order to be listed in sbbsimsg.lst. That should be fixed now, but some lingering Finger/SMTP support remains (e.g. in exec/sbbsimsg.js) and that still needs cleaning up.

    Ah, I see. So if a Synchronet sysop wants to enable support for these messages, do you still need to use sbbsimsg.js, or is the instant messenger server built into the Synchronet binaries?

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Mon Sep 18 19:37:40 2017
    Re: Inter-BBS messages
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Sep 18 2017 04:10 pm

    Re: On The Twit List
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Sep 18 2017 02:50 pm

    What instant messenger do you have to run? I don't recall reading

    The Synchronet SMTP server still supports instant-messages / telegrams, but the inter-bbs instant messaging system now uses MSP (message sending protocol) instead, which is not a widely-blocked port/protocol.

    The inter-bbs instant messaging system used to use UDP-Finger for querying who's on each system, but now it uses the SYSTAT/Active User protocol (also UDP) instead.

    "new" protocols in order to be listed in sbbsimsg.lst. That should be fixed now, but some lingering Finger/SMTP support remains (e.g. in exec/sbbsimsg.js) and that still needs cleaning up.

    Ah, I see. So if a Synchronet sysop wants to enable support for these messages, do you still need to use sbbsimsg.js, or is the instant messenger server built into the Synchronet binaries?

    You still would use sbbsimsg.js, in conjunction with activeuserservice.js and mspservice.js.

    digital man

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