[nos-bbs] JNOS and Winlink interfacing -- close but stuck

[John Goerzen]

On 12/31/2010 10:56 AM, Maiko Langelaar wrote:
> I am guessing you have a couple of nodes to go through to get to the
> nearest RMS packet system.

Right.

>
>>> Are you saying that you believe that the fact that I am saying "wl2k"
>>> in two places instead of wa4zko-11 is the cause of my trouble ?
>
> Yes, and actually or what I have done *so far*, it would just be
> wa4zko-11, since to be honest with you, I've never logged into JNOS
> with any SSID values, a concept that I need to better understand now
> that it's appearing in the winlink stuff. I'm still learning too :)

OK, why is that?  My understanding here was that the "wl2k" was just an 
arbitrary placeholder and can be anything.  How would that make a 
difference on the incoming mail?

> Okay, I missed this line completely. Sorry about that John. Willie gave
> a good answer, you can try out linuxRMS if that is all you really want
> out of this.

That doesn't do what I want, from what I can tell.  It provides a way 
for others to access the Winlink system, but does not provide a way for 
me to download my mail any easier than I already had.  I can telnet to 
it and use the CLI, but then I could already do that.

I found paclink-unix that may do what I'm after, actually.  But JNOS can 
do this too, right?  What I'm after is a way to get my mail out of 
Winlink and into a Maildir or IMAP folder or something where I can munge 
it using my usual tools.

-- John