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thinking of whether to rewrite WWIV's bbs/multmail.cpp from scratch or just fix the current code. #retrocomputing #wwiv #BBS #wwivdev
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i started porting my #wwiv lastcallers code from python to c++. first stab is here https://github.com/ericpareja/wwiv5lastcaller
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got my email export from #wwiv python script working. it takes wwiv packets from the internet/ subdirectory and translates them to SMTP mail and gets sent out via my mail server running postfix. users on my bbs can eventually send email from wwiv.
yes, it's not really needed anymore, but it's fun to make these old things work better.
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trying to read the #WWIV message base text at a low-level is driving me batty, so i will just use the API. at least, i have some code i can pattern what i'm working on after. it'll be a c/c++ implementation of code i wrote in python2/python3. this should be fun.
i got up to the point where i can read postrecs, with sender, title and stored_as info. reading messages from WWIV Type-2 storage was a bit convoluted. i understood the theory, but couldn't implement.
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did a bit of messing around with my exp.py script to process outbound #wwiv to internet email packets and made some progress. it can munch wwiv packets and produce smtp mail. basic functions work. will clean up for configurability later. next bit to do is to create a python script to convert incoming email to wwiv mail packets. this is fun. :)
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just finished writing ibbs-extract3, which is part 2 of my wwiv5ibbslastcaller package. xwibbslastcaller.py was part 1.
xwibbslastcaller.py handles posting a rot47 encoded message with basic caller info on logon to a networked sub.
ibbs-extract3 reads data from networked subs of rot47 encoded messages and generates a laston.txt file for each network.