Hello All,

I know Mystic doesn;t support POTS out of the box, but I'm interested in
adding POTS support, because I've 'acquired' a POTS line, and I may as well make use of it.

I seem to recall some discussion about some front-ent piece of software that will accept the call, and then basically translate that into a telnet session into Mystic.

Also, if I'm running POTS, I guess I should really be able to send/receive
mail via POTS as well as BinkP. Any suggestions on how I should go about
doing this? If anyone is playing with POTS on their Mystic, I'd appreciate
some suggestions.

Ian

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I know Mystic doesn;t support POTS out of the box, but I'm interested in adding POTS support, because I've 'acquired' a POTS line, and I may as well make use of it.

Interesting question being soon as I move to Creede,CO I may be in the same boat living 30 mins outside of town.

And also use both if I can.


Havok

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I know Mystic doesn;t support POTS out of the box, but I'm interested
in adding POTS support, because I've 'acquired' a POTS line, and I may
as well make use of it.

http://cmech/dynip.com/filebase.bbs/public/wildcat.zip Wildcat! v4.2SL
http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/public/wildcat4.pdf Wildcat! v4.2 Docs
I use Wildcat for dialup, works super nice! I can send you a Courier V.Everything Modem commands file if needed.

FYI: Wildcat is Abandonware ...


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On 06/29/18, Cmech said the following...

FYI: Wildcat is Abandonware ...

Is it really? I have an old copy of Wildcat! v4 Dos, if I can ever find my v.everything USR modem I was considering tossing it online to give those
local to me a BBS to call. Plus I have a local User Group who would love a
BBS that they could use to chat between meetings, so this would be perfect,
if it is indeed abandonware I would most likely toss it online for them to
use and call their own.

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Re: Mystic and a POTS line
By: Erazmus to All on Fri Jun 29 2018 04:52 pm

I know Mystic doesn;t support POTS out of the box, but I'm interested in adding POTS support, because I've 'acquired' a POTS line, and I may as well make use of it.

Really? I have an issue (well, not really) and I need someone to route netmail to a pots only node. Could I interest you in doing that?

I seem to recall some discussion about some front-ent piece of software that will accept the call, and then basically translate that into a telnet session into Mystic.

Synchronet includes sexpots, I believe it does that although I have never used it and I don't know if it will work outside of Synchronet.

Also, if I'm running POTS, I guess I should really be able to send/receive mail via POTS as well as BinkP. Any suggestions on how I should go about doing this? If anyone is playing with POTS on their Mystic, I'd appreciate some suggestions.

10 years ago or so I built BinkleyTerm 2.60 from the source .zip just for the excersize. It built successfully but I didn't have a modem to try it out. If it will still build successfully (the source is 20 odd years old) that may be an option for you.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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On 06/29/18, Erazmus pondered and said...

send/receive mail via POTS as well as BinkP. Any suggestions on how I should go about doing this? If anyone is playing with POTS on their Mystic, I'd appreciate some suggestions.

Sexpots is the suggested option. I have not used it but I recall g00r00 thinking it would be a good option. Digital Man is a good person to ask about it :)

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FYI: Wildcat is Abandonware ...

Is it really? I have an old copy of Wildcat! v4 Dos, if I can ever

The DOS version is, Winserver is not :)


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On 06/29/18, Havok said the following...

Interesting question being soon as I move to Creede,CO I may be in the same boat living 30 mins outside of town.

And also use both if I can.

I'll let you know if I get any useful info and manage to get it running.

Ian

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On 06/29/18, Cmech said the following...

Docs I use Wildcat for dialup, works super nice! I can send you a
Courier V.Everything Modem commands file if needed.

I'd rather not put a separate full BBS up if I can help it - it's enough brain-space to configure and use one package :)

Ian

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On 06/29/18, Al said the following...

Really? I have an issue (well, not really) and I need someone to route netmail to a pots only node. Could I interest you in doing that?

Congrats on your promotion :) We need to arrange the switch-over from Dallas
to you. I'm greedy and take a full echomail and file feed. Will that work for you?

Once I get the POTS line going with Mystic, I'd be more than happy to help
you out on the POTS side.

Ian

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On 06/30/18, Avon said the following...

Sexpots is the suggested option. I have not used it but I recall g00r00 thinking it would be a good option. Digital Man is a good person to ask about it :)

This is ringing some bells in my memory. I will look into it.

Thanks!

Ian

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On 06/30/18, Cmech said the following...

* An ongoing debate between Bucko and Cmech rages on ...

The DOS version is, Winserver is not :)

Cool... Gives me something to work on in the near future.. ;)

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Re: Re: Mystic and a POTS line
By: Erazmus to Al on Sat Jun 30 2018 05:40 am

Congrats on your promotion :)

Thanks!

We need to arrange the switch-over from Dallas to you. I'm greedy and take a full echomail and file feed. Will that work for you?

Yep, you can connect as you please. I'll netmail you in a few minutes.

Once I get the POTS line going with Mystic, I'd be more than happy to help you out on the POTS side.

That would be a great help, thanks.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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I'll let you know if I get any useful info and manage to get it running.

Thanks, being it holds a point of interest for me also!

Thanks again.


Havok

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On 06/29/18, Al said the following...

Synchronet includes sexpots, I believe it does that although I have
never used it and I don't know if it will work outside of Synchronet.

I tested both mgetty and sexpots with Mystic a while back and they both worked fine. Sexpots is easy to use and just proxies the POTS caller to the telnet address/port you specify. mgetty was very fiddly to get going and involved generating a script upon each call to run a local instance of Mystic which
then gets piped back to the caller.

mgetty is more feature-complete in that it can detect an FTN connection and call a mailer, as well as pass the user's caller ID to Mystic using the host parameter in case you wanted to do caller verification or something. It's a much bigger pain the tail to get it to do what you want, though.

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Re: Mystic and a POTS line
By: Erazmus to All on Fri Jun 29 2018 04:52 pm

I know Mystic doesn;t support POTS out of the box, but I'm interested in adding POTS support, because I've 'acquired' a POTS line, and I may as well make use of it.

Should do it: http://wiki.synchro.net/util:sexpots

digital man

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