• Convert .msg to .pkt

    From Joe@21:1/189 to All on Wed Nov 6 06:09:00 2019
    Is anyone aware of a tool that will convert .msg files into .pkt format to be tossed with binkd. Specificly looking for something for *nix. I found an
    old one in archive.org but it is for dos.

    Thanks

    Joe

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to Joe on Wed Nov 6 04:42:10 2019
    Is anyone aware of a tool that will convert .msg files into .pkt format
    to be tossed with binkd. Specificly looking for something for *nix. I found an old one in archive.org but it is for dos.

    A simple tool, not that I know of. Both husky's hpt and Synchronet and/or SBBSecho support *.MSG but neither is trivial to setup.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Oli@21:1/151 to Al on Wed Nov 6 13:46:28 2019
    06 Nov 19 04:42, you wrote to Joe:

    Is anyone aware of a tool that will convert .msg files into .pkt
    format to be tossed with binkd. Specificly looking for something
    for *nix. I found an old one in archive.org but it is for dos.

    A simple tool, not that I know of. Both husky's hpt and Synchronet
    and/or SBBSecho support *.MSG but neither is trivial to setup.

    If you are looking for a tosser than you can also use crashmail. IF you looking
    for something else, maybe you can explain what you are trying to achive. binkd
    does not toss anything.

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to Oli on Wed Nov 6 05:01:46 2019
    If you are looking for a tosser than you can also use crashmail. IF you looking for something else, maybe you can explain what you are trying
    to achive. binkd does not toss anything.

    I think Joe has a *.msg he wants to convert to a .pkt and send to it's destination with binkd.

    Does crashmail support *.msg? If so, that might be what Joe is looking
    for.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Oli@21:1/151 to Al on Wed Nov 6 15:05:32 2019
    06 Nov 19 05:01, you wrote to me:

    If you are looking for a tosser than you can also use crashmail.
    IF you looking for something else, maybe you can explain what
    you are trying to achive. binkd does not toss anything.

    I think Joe has a *.msg he wants to convert to a .pkt and send to it's destination with binkd.

    Does crashmail support *.msg? If so, that might be what Joe is looking for.

    To be clear, crashmail does support message bases in *.msg format (= a directory were every message is stored in a seperate .msg file). It also has the crashwrite tool that creates a .pkt file from a text file. I don't think Crashmail can convert a single *.msg file to a packet (but I might be wrong).


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  • From Netsurge@21:4/154 to Joe on Wed Nov 6 19:54:24 2019
    Is anyone aware of a tool that will convert .msg files into .pkt format
    to be tossed with binkd. Specificly looking for something for *nix. I found an old one in archive.org but it is for dos.

    The Husky Project has a tool to do just that.

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  • From Joe@21:1/189 to Al on Wed Nov 6 19:44:12 2019
    I think Joe has a *.msg he wants to convert to a .pkt and send to it's destination with binkd.


    Thats exactly what i'm looking for. I've been playing with makenl mainly to learn it and part of the processing it will generate a .msg file to send a
    mail to whoever you desinate for notification. This is more a curisoity
    thing for me. I'm using HPT as my tosser and binkd as my mailer. From what I gather binkd doesn't support the .msg files so i'm looking for a way to
    convert it so that it can be sent to a node.

    Joe

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to Joe on Wed Nov 6 18:09:44 2019
    I think Joe has a *.msg he wants to convert to a .pkt and send to it's destination with binkd.

    Thats exactly what i'm looking for. I've been playing with makenl
    mainly to learn it and part of the processing it will generate a .msg
    file to send a mail to whoever you desinate for notification. This is more a curisoity thing for me. I'm using HPT as my tosser and binkd as
    my mailer. From what I gather binkd doesn't support the .msg files so
    i'm looking for a way to convert it so that it can be sent to a node.

    "hpt pack" will pack outbound *.msg netmail into the outbound for binkd
    to send to the destination.

    You'll need a NetmailArea line in your config with -b Msg pointing to the directory containing the *.msg.

    The destination will also need to be listed in your links or route
    config.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Joe@21:1/189 to Al on Wed Nov 6 21:28:44 2019
    "hpt pack" will pack outbound *.msg netmail into the outbound for binkd
    to send to the destination.
    You'll need a NetmailArea line in your config with -b Msg pointing to the directory containing the *.msg.

    Thanks Al, Thats what I needed. Got it working.

    Joe

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  • From Joacim Melin@21:2/130 to Oli on Thu Nov 7 08:23:00 2019
    06 Nov 19 05:01, you wrote to me:

    If you are looking for a tosser than you can also use crashmail.
    IF you looking for something else, maybe you can explain what
    you are trying to achive. binkd does not toss anything.

    I think Joe has a *.msg he wants to convert to a .pkt and send to it's
    destination with binkd.

    Does crashmail support *.msg? If so, that might be what Joe is looking
    for.

    To be clear, crashmail does support message bases in *.msg format (= a directory were every message is stored in a seperate .msg file). It
    also has
    the crashwrite tool that creates a .pkt file from a text file. I don't think
    Crashmail can convert a single *.msg file to a packet (but I might be wrong).

    If you're gonna do Crashmail on *nix och Linux, do check out the repo at Github. It's called Crashmail II.


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