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  • Re: fmail for linux

    From Fernando Toledo@4:902/26 to Wilfred van Velzen on Tue May 18 22:51:30 2021
    El 10/12/20 a las 12:43, Wilfred van Velzen escribió:
    Hi Fernando,

    On 2020-12-10 12:02:49, you wrote to Fidonet.FMAIL_HELP:

    FT> i search if exists fmail build for linux,

    Only partly... Read this if you are interested:

    http://vlzn.nl/fmail/files/fmail-linux-install.txt


    Bye, Wilfred.

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    Hi Wilfred!!

    I'm success build fmail on linux. The fmail an ftools executables just
    build and work.

    Is there an example of the fmail.cfg file? is it a binary file? I think
    you could get to program something using python to replace that utility
    if it is not too complicated.
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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/66.3463 to Fernando Toledo on Wed May 19 08:36:36 2021
    18 May 2021 22:51, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

    Is there an example of the fmail.cfg file? is it a binary file? I
    think you could get to program something using python to replace that utility if it is not too complicated.

    It is a binary file, and it's not the only one. AFAIK there is also fmail.ar, fmail.ard, fmail.pck and fmail.nod.

    Perhaps it would be fine if these configuration files could be exported to (and imported from) text files (ini-style, json, yaml or whatever). I don't know if this is a crazy idea...

    Carlos

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Fernando Toledo on Wed May 19 08:33:24 2021
    Hi Fernando,

    On 2021-05-18 22:51:31, you wrote to me:

    FT> i search if exists fmail build for linux,

    Only partly... Read this if you are interested:

    http://vlzn.nl/fmail/files/fmail-linux-install.txt

    I'm success build fmail on linux. The fmail an ftools executables just build and work.

    Ok great! :-)

    Is there an example of the fmail.cfg file?

    On every installed system there is one. ;)

    is it a binary file?

    Yes.

    You can look at the used structures here: https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/master/tree/fmstruct.h

    I think you could get to program something using python to replace
    that utility if it is not too complicated.

    Python would be great, as long as the program runs in a text console, without dependencies on uncommon libraries...

    But there are more files, besides fmail.cfg, it needs to be abel to read and write to. Look at paragraph 1.2 of FMail.txt. And there are more files it needs to know about if you want to implement all functionality, like for instance the import functions.

    I already did some experimental command line tools in python: https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/tools/

    That convert the fmail.ar(t) file to and from text based formats.


    Bye, Wilfred.
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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Carlos Navarro on Wed May 19 09:21:16 2021
    Hi Carlos,

    On 2021-05-19 08:36:36, you wrote to Fernando Toledo:

    It is a binary file, and it's not the only one. AFAIK there is also fmail.ar, fmail.ard, fmail.pck and fmail.nod.

    Perhaps it would be fine if these configuration files could be exported to (and imported from) text files (ini-style, json, yaml or whatever). I don't
    know if this is a crazy idea...

    Not crazy, I already did one myself (see my previous message). But for day to day operation of your system, I don't think it would be practical to do that by editting these text files. They would be very complex, and it would be to easy to make mistakes in the structures...

    Bye, Wilfred.
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  • From Fernando Toledo@4:902/26 to Carlos Navarro on Wed May 19 18:42:40 2021
    El 19/5/21 a las 03:36, Carlos Navarro escribió:
    18 May 2021 22:51, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

    FT> Is there an example of the fmail.cfg file? is it a binary file? I
    FT> think you could get to program something using python to replace that
    FT> utility if it is not too complicated.

    It is a binary file, and it's not the only one. AFAIK there is also fmail.ar, fmail.ard, fmail.pck and fmail.nod.

    Perhaps it would be fine if these configuration files could be exported to (and imported from) text files (ini-style, json, yaml or whatever). I don't know if this is a crazy idea...

    text plain file will be cool.
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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/66.3463 to Wilfred van Velzen on Sat May 22 09:00:10 2021
    19 May 2021 08:33, you wrote to Fernando Toledo:

    I already did some experimental command line tools in python: https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/tools/

    That convert the fmail.ar(t) file to and from text based formats.

    Interesting. Will check those.

    Carlos

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