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.
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?
| Sysop: | Ragnarok |
|---|---|
| Location: | Dock Sud, Bs As, Argentina |
| Users: | 136 |
| Nodes: | 10 (0 / 10) |
| Uptime: | 58:21:33 |
| Calls: | 15,174 |
| Calls today: | 1 |
| Files: | 19,862 |
| D/L today: |
66 files (13,158K bytes) |
| Messages: | 1,693,725 |