It takes a little bit of messing about, but not too much. However, while I tested Golded with Synchronet quite a bit, that's not how I use it normally. There's too many quirks that I don't like, and it doesn't look like Golded will be updated to work better with Synchronet any time soon.
1) Netmail doesn't work. You can read the mail base, but you'll break stuff if you try to write to it.
2) You have to completely disable Synchronet's "voting" feature, and completely clear your message bases of any "voting" messages. Golded doesn't understand it, and will display blank messages and then jump back to the first message in the area - completely ruining any chance of reading messages in order, or keeping last read pointers in tact.
If you don't mind any of that, then it works great afterwards. It was definitely enough for me to move on to other options. ;)
Those both sound pretty fixable... maybe I'll take a look this weekend.
Those both sound pretty fixable... maybe I'll take a look this weekend.
Wow, I'm surprised to see you here. :)
If you do anything with this, let me know and I'll gladly help test it out!
Heh, with the work on The Clans, I'm actually putting a non-zero amount
of time into making at least one of my boards not suck... even set up a
FTN message network.
https://bbsdev.net/BBSDev/
It sucks and has nothing to recommend it.
Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
By: Accession to Deuce on Wed Nov 05 2025 04:49 pm
Those both sound pretty fixable... maybe I'll take a look this weekend.
Wow, I'm surprised to see you here. :)
If you do anything with this, let me know and I'll gladly help test it out!
Heh, with the work on The Clans, I'm actually putting a non-zero amount of time into making at least one of my boards not suck... even set up a FTN message network.
https://bbsdev.net/BBSDev/
It sucks and has nothing to recommend it.
sbbs/ctrl/services.ini looks like that for NNTP(S) now
; Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
[NNTP]
Port=119
Command=nntpservice.js -f -na
[NNTPS]
Enabled=true
Port=563
Options=TLS
Command=nntpservice.js -f -na
so i have added -na to allow users who authenticate with an BBS account only.
anything else? Who uses NNTPS regularly to read and post?
Or is that just something you should not use or offer as a feature to users?
sbbs/ctrl/services.ini looks like that for NNTP(S) now
; Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) [NNTP]
Port=119
Command=nntpservice.js -f -na
[NNTPS]
Enabled=true
Port=563
Options=TLS
Command=nntpservice.js -f -na
so i have added -na to allow users who authenticate with an BBS account
only.
anything else? Who uses NNTPS regularly to read and post? Or is that just
something you should not use or offer as a feature to users?
The above looks correct to me, and you can definitely offer it as a feature to your users (with authentication, like you did, of course). That's what it's there for!
Mindsurfer wrote to Accession <=-
Any other Newsgroup Reader out there beside Thunderbird?
The Deuce I know doesn't like people. Now you're setting up a message network... for... communication with people!? :D
I'll hop on IRC soon to set this all up.
The Deuce I know doesn't like people. Now you're setting up a message network... for... communication with people!? :D
It's only some people I don't like.
I'll hop on IRC soon to set this all up.
Cool, and the network is mostly for testing The Clans.
That's what I figured. Once The Clans is done, do you plan on possibly doing any others?
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