I am running a ClassicWB_UAE Emulated Amiga using WinUAE and Workbench 3.1 on a dedicated Windows 10 64 bit PC. My system boots up to windows, then full screen to my Amiga. It loads C-Net and AmiBinkD; my front end mailer. I have all the settings set and the system is doing very good for 5 different networks. I poll from 2 different systems and I will be happy to share my set-up and help anyone else that would like to stop using Windows as much as possable and try to keep it all Amiga. If you are running your BBS from the real deal and would like to get AmiBinkD going. Just let me know.

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Hi Gary,

In a message dated 15 May 19 you wrote to All :

I am running a ClassicWB_UAE Emulated Amiga using WinUAE and Workbench 3.1 on a dedicated Windows 10 64 bit PC. My system boots up
to windows, then full screen to my Amiga. It loads C-Net and AmiBinkD;
my front end mailer. I have all the settings set and the system is
doing very good for 5 different networks. I poll from 2 different
systems and I will be happy to share my set-up and help anyone else
that would like to stop using Windows as much as possable and try to
keep it all Amiga. If you are running your BBS from the real deal and would like to get AmiBinkD going. Just let me know.

I've interest, although in the past AmiBinkD was not running very stable.
Have you recompiled/patched it?

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Hi Ingo,

On 2019-05-16 07:30:10, you wrote to Gary McCulloch:

I've interest, although in the past AmiBinkD was not running very
stable. Have you recompiled/patched it?

As far as we know the source was lost when Rudig sold his Amiga's. But he based his version on the one that's on AmiNet (with source)...

Bye, Wilfred.

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On Thu 16-May-2019 7:30a, Ingo Juergensmann@39:170/400.1 said to Gary

I've interest, although in the past AmiBinkD was not running very stable. Have you recompiled/patched it?

I am using v9.02 that is on Aminet. It was not hard to set up. Are you running this on a real Amiga or emulated?

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Hi Wilfred,

In a message dated 16 May 19 you wrote to Ingo Juergensmann :

I've interest, although in the past AmiBinkD was not running very
stable. Have you recompiled/patched it?

As far as we know the source was lost when Rudig sold his Amiga's. But
he based his version on the one that's on AmiNet (with source)...

When I rejoined Fidonet after 17 years, I got Rudis AmiBinkd directly from
him and it wasn't very stable.
If there's a newer version Aminet, I can give it a try again, of course...

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Hi Gary,

In a message dated 16 May 19 you wrote to Ingo Juergensmann :

On Thu 16-May-2019 7:30a, Ingo Juergensmann@39:170/400.1 said to Gary

I've interest, although in the past AmiBinkD was not running very
stable. Have you recompiled/patched it?

I am using v9.02 that is on Aminet. It was not hard to set up. Are you running this on a real Amiga or emulated?

This is a real A3000/060.

Maybe, when everything runs smooth, I might consider moving it to emulated instance on a Raspi 3, but only for reasons of saving power consumption. Basically I don't intend to shutdown my Amigas entirely or sell them.
Instead I fear that they might die the death of age... maybe in 10..30
years or so... ;)

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On Thu 16-May-2019 6:37p, Ingo Juergensmann@39:170/400.1 said to Gary

This is a real A3000/060.

Maybe, when everything runs smooth, I might consider moving it to emulated instance on a Raspi 3, but only for reasons of saving power consumption. Basically I don't intend to shutdown my Amigas entirely or sell them. Instead I fear that they might die the death of age... maybe in 10..30 years or so... ;)

How are your drives set up? Just a DH0? I want to get a picture of your set-up to best help you with Amibinkd. Where the program is kept and where your Netmail folders are will matter.
I have a archive in my file section with screens and set-up instructions that could help. There have been some slight changes to the amibinkd.cfg Also two scripts that run for polling and to keep the server running.
For someone like me who is still learning this networking, it really wasn't hard. I am soon wanting to learn how to run a HUB for a network.

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Hi Ingo,

On 2019-05-16 18:34:47, you wrote to me:

When I rejoined Fidonet after 17 years, I got Rudis AmiBinkd directly
from him and it wasn't very stable. If there's a newer version Aminet,
I can give it a try again, of course...

If you search for 'binkd' on aminet you find 3 versions. From 1997, 2000 and 2011. That last one is the one from Rudi. All are without source...

Bye, Wilfred.

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On Fri 17-May-2019 10:22a, Wilfred Van Velzen@39:150/200.0 said to Ingo Juergensmann:

Hi Ingo,

On 2019-05-16 18:34:47, you wrote to me:

When I rejoined Fidonet after 17 years, I got Rudis AmiBinkd directly from him and it wasn't very stable. If there's a newer version

Aminet,

I can give it a try again, of course...

If you search for 'binkd' on aminet you find 3 versions. From 1997, 2000 and
2011. That last one is the one from Rudi. All are without source...

Bye, Wilfred.

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I have the last one, Amibinkd v9.02 Pro/FREEWARE - AmiCron/AmiTask version. Coded 2011-2014 By Rudi Timmermans.

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Hi Gary,

In a message dated 16 May 19 you wrote to Ingo Juergensmann :

How are your drives set up? Just a DH0? I want to get a

Well...

Mounted disks:
Unit Size Used Free Full Errs Status Name
RAM: 1462K 1462 0 100% 0 Read/Write RamDisk
ADH0: 731M 336588 1161970 22% 0 Read/Write System3.9
ADH1: 1045M 308878 1831920 14% 0 Read/Write SysBAK
ADH4: 4181M 2375534 6187664 28% 0 Read/Write Work
ADH5: 4181M 403100 8160098 5% 0 Read/Write Data
ADH6: 8362M 12648312 4478086 74% 0 Read/Write Data2
ADH7: 8362M 9749817 7376580 57% 0 Read/Write Data3
SFSData: 8285M 9056866 7912539 53% 0 Read/Write Daten
OldDisks: 101G 18850334 193702559 9% 0 Read/Write OldDisks

Volumes available:
SA-4D-Data_12 [Mounted]
RamDisk [Mounted]
OldDisks [Mounted]
Daten [Mounted]
Data3 [Mounted]
Data2 [Mounted]
Data [Mounted]
Work [Mounted]
SysBAK [Mounted]
System3.9 [Mounted]

Basically, it's a single 500 GB SATA disk connected via a SATA<->SCSI
bridge to the A3000s SCSI.
The current layout of paritions is more due to the fact that I migrated to
the bigger disk and backupping my old SCSI disks than that it is a sane
layout at all.

However, in the past with multiple SCSI disks inside and outside of the
A3000 desktop case (IIRC 3 or 4 disks was the maximum of disks inside of
the A3000 case) there was a huge performance increase when tossing mails
when you spread out your temp, back, inbound, outbound, messagebase
directory across various disks. Todays SATA disk is fast enough to serve
the internal SCSI bus of the A3000 under any condition, I would say... ;)

picture of your set-up to best help you with Amibinkd. Where the
program is kept and where your Netmail folders are will matter.

I think I can change the setup myself... ;-)

I have a archive in my file section with screens and set-up instructions that could help. There have been some slight changes to
the amibinkd.cfg Also two scripts that run for polling and to keep the server running.

Ah, yes... as I said: AmiBinkD is quite instable and you'll need these kind
of scripts to restart it every now and then...

For someone like me who is still learning this networking, it really wasn't hard. I am soon wanting to learn how to run a HUB for a network.

Technically running a hub is not that different from running a node with points, but you'll face more "paperwork" you managing your hub segment,
submit it to the NC and such.

Given the current size of the FTN networks nowadays I don't think that many hubs are needed, especially due to the change from polling via modems and
phone lines to TCP/IP based connections. But it won't do any harm if more people would know what it means to operate a hub are are more involved with
the managing part in the background of FTN networks. YMMV.

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Hi Wilfred,

In a message dated 17 May 19 you wrote to Ingo Juergensmann :

When I rejoined Fidonet after 17 years, I got Rudis AmiBinkd directly
from him and it wasn't very stable. If there's a newer version Aminet,
I can give it a try again, of course...

If you search for 'binkd' on aminet you find 3 versions. From 1997,
2000 and 2011. That last one is the one from Rudi. All are without source...

Well, as already stated: I would love to see a new version of GMS-Mailer
and the source being released so that someone[TM] can add some TCP/IP
support for it.

Mirko is not hard to find when you search for him. Maybe sending him some
nice and friendly mails from others would do the trick... ;)

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So, what is the issues when using AmiBinkd?? Most of the ones we ran into. When I say we, I am talking about Reign of Fire and Future World II. We just added a script to check if the server is running and loaded the server if not. Run it every 30 minutes along with the polling and everything works out.

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Hello Gary!

20 May 19 20:15, you wrote to all:

So, what is the issues when using AmiBinkd?? Most of the ones
we ran into. When I say we, I am talking about Reign of Fire and
Future World II. We just added a script to check if the server is
running and loaded the server if not. Run it every 30 minutes along
with the polling and everything works out.

Well, my current issue with Amibinkd is: it crashes with an illegal instruction when polling.

binkd is latest from Aminet (http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/binkd) and ixemul.library is 48.3-3 (http://aminet.net/package/dev/lib/ixemul-48.3-bin-m68k).

It connects and then crashes:

- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] SYS AmigaXess.2
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] ZYZ Ingo Juergensmann
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] LOC Georgsmarienhuette, Germany
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] NDL 57600,TCP,BINKP
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] TIME Mon, 6 May 2013 11:18:01 +0000
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] VER binkd v2.0m68k/Amiga binkp/2.0
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 2:2452/413.2@fidonet
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 21:1/110.2@fsxnet
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 39:170/400.2@amiganet
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 314:314/75.2@pinet
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] OPT NDA EXTCMD CRYPT
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] Remote supports asymmetric ND mode
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] Remote supports EXTCMD mode
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] Remote requests CRYPT mode

Any idea?

Ingo


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Lets start with your config. Here is a good working config...

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# AmiBinkd sample configuration file
# Copyright (c) 2012 By Rudi Timmermans

#
# Your FTN domains:
# domain <name> <main-outbound> <default-zone>
# or
# domain <new-name> alias-for <name>
#
domain fidonet DH0:Echomail/Outbound/ 1
domain fido alias-for fidonet
domain fidonet.org alias-for fidonet


#
# Your addresses, 4D or 5D:
# address <addr1> ...
#
address 1:154/50.0@fidonet

#
# The name of your system, it's location, and your name
#
sysname "Your System BBS"
location "City, State"
sysop "Firstname Lastname"

#
# System capabilities
#
nodeinfo 115200,TCP,BINKP

#
# TCP settings. Leave this unchanged if not sure.
#
iport 24554
#oport AmiBinkp
#oblksize 4096
#timeout 60

#
# Delay calls and outbound rescans
#
#call-delay 60
rescan-delay 1
#prescan

#
# Max. number of inbound/outbound connections
#
#maxservers 2
#maxclients 2

#
# Binkd will try to call a node N times, if failed, it will
# hold the node for S seconds. The feature is off by default.
#
#try 10
#hold 10m

#
# hold-skipped <S>
# Binkd will hold all mail, skipped by a node, for S seconds. (Def. -- 3600)
#
#hold-skipped 3600

#
# Don't send (only receive) files if no password for an inbound session
#
send-if-pwd

#
# Path and name for the logfile, loglevel
#
log Sysdata:log/Amibinkd.log
loglevel 4

#
# Uncomment it if you want Amibinkd's log at your console
#
conlog 4

#
# Uncomment if you want T-Mail(FrontDoor)-style binary log
# (Will work and have sense on PCs only?)
# Tzoff corrects UTC time returned by time() under DOS-derived OS
#
#binlog AmiBinkd.sts
#fdinhist in.his
#fdouthist out.his
#tzoff 10800

#
# Use syslog (Only if made with -DHAVE_VSYSLOG and -DHAVE_FACILITYNAMES)
#
#syslog local0

#
# Print percents while sending or receiving
#
percents

#
# List queue after rescans
#
printq

#
# Perform reverse resolving (for logging only)
#
backresolv

#
# Log pid:
#
#pid-file /var/run/AmiBinkd.pid

#
# Map paths in flo's:
# ftrans <old-string> <new-string>
# Use as many ftrans's as you want.
#
#ftrans "D:\\fido\\outbound" "/var/spool/fido/outb"
#ftrans "\\" "/" # this replaces all slashes in a path

#
# Inbound directory for secure and non-secure links
#
inbound DH0:Echomail/Inbound/
inbound-nonsecure DH0:Echomail/Inbound_NS/
temp-inbound DH0:Echomail/Inbound_Temp/

#
# Binkd will skip all files from a node if
# size_of_the_next_file_for_us_there + minfree < free_space_in_inbound
#
minfree 2048
minfree-nonsecure 2048

#
# When trying to receive a new file: remove from inbound partial
# files with this name but diff.size or time. (If commented out, binkd
# will left old parts as .dt and .hr in the inbound directory)
#
kill-dup-partial-files

#
# Remove from inbound all old partial files. (OFF if commented out)
# kill-old-partial-files <max-age-in-seconds>
#
kill-old-partial-files 1d

#
# Remove old .bsy/.csy files (If some left after a system crash). It would be # wise to set this to 43200 (12 hrs) on almost any system. (Note that AmiBinkd # always touches .bsy's/.csy's for active sessions)
#
# kill-old-bsy is OFF by default.
#
kill-old-bsy 12h

#
# Create a flag file after receiving a file
#
#flag toss!.now *.pkt
#flag toss!.now *.su? *.mo? *.tu? *.we? *.th? *.fr? *.sa?

#
# Run an external program.
# The "*S" macro in command line substed with S.R.I.F.
#
#exec "my-freq-processor.exe /options *S" *.req
#exec "my-pkt-unpacker.exe /options *S" *.pkt

#
# Include a file
#
#include AmiBinkd.inc

#
# Overrides root domain for DNS lookups, see `node' below.
#
#root-domain fidonet.net


#
# Use Amiga Style Outbound (ASO)
#
aso

#
# Here you have to set your boss connection settings and the areafix password that
# you have get from your boss.

node 1:322/0@fidonet hub.yourboss.address:24556 PASSWORD
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Hello Gary!

07 Jun 19 21:52, you wrote to me:

Lets start with your config. Here is a good working config...

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---- SNIP ----

Well, there is no substantial difference in the config.

When calling binkd in a shell, it reports version binkd 2.0/m68k 2011 by Rudi. When you state that your version 9 is from Aminet as well, then I wonder where did you downloaded it actually, because I downloaded the newest upload from Aminet.

Ingo


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Hello Ingo!

09 Jun 19 13:42, I wrote to Gary McCulloch:

Hello Gary!
Well, there is no substantial difference in the config.
When calling binkd in a shell, it reports version binkd 2.0/m68k 2011
by Rudi. When you state that your version 9 is from Aminet as well,
then I wonder where did you downloaded it actually, because I
downloaded the newest upload from Aminet.

Ok, found version 9.02 in the meanwhile, but not on Aminet: https://sites.google.com/site/fidonetbe/announcements/amibinkdftnmailerforamiga

When using the included ixemul.library, the system crashes after receing EMSI header, after stating that the remote set unsecure session. And when using something like Mail:outbound as path, it complains that it can't open ./mail:/outbound for creating dlo...

hmmm...

Ingo


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On Sun 9-Jun-2019 2:04p, Ingo Juergensmann@39:170/400.0 said to Ingo

When using the included ixemul.library, the system crashes after receing EMSI
header, after stating that the remote set unsecure session. And when using something like Mail:outbound as path, it complains that it can't open ./mail:/outbound for creating dlo...

I have found that you have to use the root directory name. If Mail: is
on your DH0: drive then use DH0:Mail/ Give that a try and see if that helps.

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Hello Gary!

09 Jun 19 10:27, you wrote to me:

On Sun 9-Jun-2019 2:04p, Ingo Juergensmann@39:170/400.0 said to Ingo

When using the included ixemul.library, the system crashes after
receing EMSI header, after stating that the remote set unsecure
session. And when using something like Mail:outbound as path, it
complains that it can't open ./mail:/outbound for creating dlo...

I have found that you have to use the root directory name. If Mail: is on your DH0: drive then use DH0:Mail/ Give that a try and
see if that helps.

Negative. :-(

Because of the possible crashes I've formatted a partition intended for Linux swap as FFS and used this for tests. So the path is for example Swap:outbound/ and still Amibinkd complains about ./Swap:outbound/2.2452.413.0.dlo could not be created...

Ingo


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Hello Ingo!

09 Jun 19 18:11, I wrote to Gary McCulloch:

Because of the possible crashes I've formatted a partition intended
for Linux swap as FFS and used this for tests. So the path is for
example Swap:outbound/ and still Amibinkd complains about ./Swap:outbound/2.2452.413.0.dlo could not be created...

Ha!

Got it working and already polled like 2 years of bundles (>100 MB).

The trick to make it work was apparently to adjust "stack 50000"... with that even the path settings do work.
:-)

Ingo


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On Wed 12-Jun-2019 12:38a, Ingo Juergensmann@39:170/400.0 said to Ingo

Ha!

Got it working and already polled like 2 years of bundles (>100 MB).

The trick to make it work was apparently to adjust "stack 50000"... with that
even the path settings do work.
:-)

Ingo

Alright! I was digging trying to find the fix, but I am glad you got it. Another Amiga BBS running AmiBinkd!!!

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Hi Ingo,

On 2011-06-13 01:29:23, you wrote to Gary McCulloch:

AREA:MAIL_AMY
@FMAIL BAD: Message too old (2019-06-13 01:35:24)

If you post with an old date messages don't get forwarded here!

Hi Gary,

In a message dated 12 Jun 19 you wrote to Ingo Juergensmann :

The trick to make it work was apparently to adjust "stack 50000"...
with that
even the path settings do work.
:-)

Alright! I was digging trying to find the fix, but I am glad
you got it. Another Amiga BBS running AmiBinkd!!!

Well, I´m not there yet... ;)
Currently this is my sysop point on an A4000T at my parents house, but I´m glad that AmiBinkD is working, because I have no phone line anymore connected in this room as the inhouse PBX got removed in favour of DECT phones and it would have been problematic to poll 100 MB via a 14.4k modem line... ;-)

But in the end I intend to run the box on Amiga again...

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Hi Ingo,

On 2011-06-13 10:55:01, you wrote to me:

If you post with an old date messages don't get forwarded here!

Yeah, saw it later as well that the date was a little behind. Reason was that Genesis couldn´t reach the NTP server when the A4000T was booting. This is fixed now.

This one, and your message(s) in NODES.024, ended there again...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi Wilfred,

In a message dated 13 Jun 19 you wrote to Ingo Juergensmann :

Yeah, saw it later as well that the date was a little behind. Reason
was that Genesis couldn´t reach the NTP server when the A4000T was
booting. This is fixed now.

This one, and your message(s) in NODES.024, ended there again...

Ah well...

Funny thing was: the Amiga clock showed the correct date+time, but when I exported messages in MailManager, it showed the wrong date in the log
window.

This lead me to the assumption that this copy of MM was not yet patched for y2k, which it is now. Exporting now also reports the correct date.

So, this time hopefully I´ll not land into BAD... ;-)

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Hi Ingo,

On 2019-06-13 11:39:21, you wrote to me:

This one, and your message(s) in NODES.024, ended there again...

Ah well...

Funny thing was: the Amiga clock showed the correct date+time, but when I exported messages in MailManager, it showed the wrong date in the log window.

This lead me to the assumption that this copy of MM was not yet patched for
y2k, which it is now. Exporting now also reports the correct date.

So, this time hopefully I´ll not land into BAD... ;-)

Correct! ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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I am running a ClassicWB_UAE Emulated Amiga using WinUAE and Workbench
3.1 on a dedicated Windows 10 64 bit PC. My system boots up to
windows, then
full screen to my Amiga. It loads C-Net and AmiBinkD; my front end mailer. I
have all the settings set and the system is doing very good for 5 different
networks. I poll from 2 different systems and I will be happy to
share my
set-up and help anyone else that would like to stop using Windows as
much as
possable and try to keep it all Amiga. If you are running your BBS
from the
real deal and would like to get AmiBinkD going. Just let me know.

Question: how often does AmiBinkD crash? I tried to run every version out there a couple of years ago (the last one being 9.04 I think) and they all crash within a couple of hours, taking the Amiga with it.

If it doesn't crash I sure would like to know who you did it. :)


--- NiKom v2.5.0
* Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (39:160/242.0)

Hello Gary!

20 May 19 20:15, you wrote to all:

So, what is the issues when using AmiBinkd?? Most of the ones
we ran into. When I say we, I am talking about Reign of Fire and
Future World II. We just added a script to check if the server is
running and loaded the server if not. Run it every 30 minutes along
with the polling and everything works out.

Well, my current issue with Amibinkd is: it crashes with an illegal instruction when polling.

binkd is latest from Aminet
(http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/binkd) and ixemul.library is
48.3-3 (http://aminet.net/package/dev/lib/ixemul-48.3-bin-m68k).

It connects and then crashes:

- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] SYS AmigaXess.2
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] ZYZ Ingo Juergensmann
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] LOC Georgsmarienhuette, Germany
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] NDL 57600,TCP,BINKP
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] TIME Mon, 6 May 2013 11:18:01 +0000
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] VER binkd v2.0m68k/Amiga binkp/2.0
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 2:2452/413.2@fidonet
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 21:1/110.2@fsxnet
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 39:170/400.2@amiganet
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 314:314/75.2@pinet
- 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] OPT NDA EXTCMD CRYPT
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] Remote supports asymmetric ND mode
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] Remote supports EXTCMD mode
+ 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] Remote requests CRYPT mode

Any idea?

I never got encrypted sessions to work with ANY of the AmiBinkd versions I was able to find (the last one I ran was 9.02, not 9.04 as stated earlier) - they would all crash upon connecting. I think it's the same with the Binkd port that's on Aminet too.


--- NiKom v2.5.0
* Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (39:160/242.0)

Hello Ingo!

09 Jun 19 13:42, I wrote to Gary McCulloch:

Hello Gary!
Well, there is no substantial difference in the config.
When calling binkd in a shell, it reports version binkd 2.0/m68k 2011
by Rudi. When you state that your version 9 is from Aminet as well,
then I wonder where did you downloaded it actually, because I
downloaded the newest upload from Aminet.

Ok, found version 9.02 in the meanwhile, but not on Aminet: https://sites.google.com/site/fidonetbe/announcements/amibinkdftnmaile rforamiga

When using the included ixemul.library, the system crashes after
receing EMSI header, after stating that the remote set unsecure
session. And when using something like Mail:outbound as path, it
complains that it can't open ./mail:/outbound for creating dlo...

hmmm...

Ingo

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I have collecting most of the versions I was able to find on my FTP server, ftp.fidonet.io. It's under /pub/BBS and Fidonet Software/Fidonet Software/Amiga/AmiBinkD.


--- NiKom v2.5.0
* Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (39:160/242.0)

Hi Joacim,

On 2019-08-11 11:32:48, you wrote to Gary McCulloch:

Question: how often does AmiBinkD crash? I tried to run every version
out there a couple of years ago (the last one being 9.04 I think) and
they all crash within a couple of hours, taking the Amiga with it.

If it doesn't crash I sure would like to know who you did it. :)

I remember vaguely someone mentioning you need to increase the stack, to make it run stable...

Bye, Wilfred.

--- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
* Origin: FMail development HQ (39:150/200)

Question: how often does AmiBinkD crash? I tried to run every versio out there a couple of years ago (the last one being 9.04 I think) and they all crash within a couple of hours, taking the Amiga with it.

If it doesn't crash I sure would like to know who you did it. :)

I remember vaguely someone mentioning you need to increase the stack, to make it run stable...

You do. I find a stack of 20000 makes it happy.

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Hi Joacim,

On 2019-08-11 11:32:48, you wrote to Gary McCulloch:

Question: how often does AmiBinkD crash? I tried to run every version
out there a couple of years ago (the last one being 9.04 I think) and
they all crash within a couple of hours, taking the Amiga with it.

If it doesn't crash I sure would like to know who you did it. :)

I remember vaguely someone mentioning you need to increase the
stack, to make it run stable...

Bye, Wifred

I remember increasing the stack from everything from 50000 to 100000 and it still crashed.


--- NiKom v2.5.0
* Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (39:160/242.0)

I remember increasing the stack from everything from 50000 to 100000 and it stil l crashed.

Have you tried EMSI over telnet?

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I remember increasing the stack from everything from 50000 to 100000 and
it stil l crashed.

Have you tried EMSI over telnet?

Not with Binkd on the Amiga but we tried to get it working well with FrontDoor under Windows/MS-DOS and it... works.. kind of. Tons of re-sends, timeouts and other things.


--- NiKom v2.5.0
* Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (39:160/242.0)

Not with Binkd on the Amiga but we tried to get it working well with FrontDoor u nder Windows/MS-DOS and it... works.. kind of. Tons of re-sends, timeouts and ot her things.

I have gotten Trapdoor on the Amiga working well with iffico on Linux as well as Zeus's built in EMSI mailer and a wifi modem.

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I am still using AmibinkD to poll 5 different networks. K-Guide from Future World II BBS has a script that looks for AmibinkD and re-starts it if it
crashes. I am using this and it runs every 30 minutes at the same time I am also polling for my networks.

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