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    From Mike Miller@1:154/30.1 to All on Sat Sep 3 18:02:48 2016
    Hello, All.
    I have this phone line that hasn't been used in years. I also have a modem in the same situation.

    I did a little reading today to see if I could actually set things up to allow for dialup access. It seems the preferred route is to use mgetty -> ifmail for
    FTN. Is there a better solution? I guess BinkleyTerm has a Linux port, but I haven't been able to find much information about it, or a version that is less
    than a decade and a half old.

    I'd love to have a dialup mailer work in conjunction with my binkd mailer at some point. And potentially toss to my BBS via telnet should it be a human caller.

    Can anyone point me in the right direction to get a setup of this type running?


    Thanks!
    ...

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    Mike
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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Mike Miller on Sat Sep 3 16:25:00 2016
    Saturday September 03 2016 18:02, you wrote to All:

    Can anyone point me in the right direction to get a setup of this type running?

    I have not run with a modem for years for I can olny point out things that may help you to get that going.

    I think qico is an option for a mailer to answer calls. I suspect but I don't know that it works with mgetty.

    My synchronet install includes sexpots. I don't know how it works or if it will
    work outside of synchronet.

    MBSE BBS can take modem calls either for the BBS or mailer. I believe it does this with mgetty.

    The answer may or may not be in there I can't say for sure since I have never tried it :)

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  • From Markus Reschke@2:240/1661 to Alan Ianson on Sun Sep 4 09:53:38 2016
    Hello Alan!

    Sep 03 16:25 2016, Alan Ianson wrote to Mike Miller:

    I think qico is an option for a mailer to answer calls. I suspect but
    I don't know that it works with mgetty.

    qiqo runs fine with mgetty and provides a SRIF interface for file requests, but
    supports EMSI only. Another option is ifcico, which supports also old handshake
    protocols but not SRIF. It has a simple built-in file request processor.

    BTW, if you need a SRIF file request processor with filelist generator please have a look at https://github.com/ftnapps/mfreq ;)

    Cheers,
    Markus

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