The G8BPQ Mail and Chat Server.

Introduction.

This is a BBS and Chat (Converse) program specifically designed to interface to BPQ32. Although there are a number of perfectly adequate BBS programs about, none interface to BPQ32 particularly cleanly, and very few are still supported.

Please Read These Notes before running the software.

Outline Spec

BBS.

Basic Mailbox Functions (handling personal mail and bulletins).

All configuration via dialogs (no files to edit);

MBL/RLI standard forwarding and FBB-compatible compressed forwarding over ax.25 and netrom.

POP3 SMTP and NNTP servers, allowing a standard Internet mail and news clients (e.g. Outlook) to send messages to, and receive messages from the BBS.

Ability to send locally input messages to an Internet email account, and receive responses back from the recipient.

Content filter to hold messages with objectionable content. See details here

SYSOP-configurable INFO and HELP text. See details here

Chat Server.

Networked chat/converse node, similar to FastChat, but with named topics

Main Window.

When you first run BPQMailChat, the Configuration window will appear.
You must save all the tabs before the software will continue, even if you haven't made any changes to the tab.

Configuration Menu.

From here you can enter the main Configuration Dialogs, or manage Users, Forwarding, Messages and WP entries.

Manage Messages.

Here you can edit message header and forwarding flags.

Manage White Pages Entries.

Here you can edit or delete entries in the WP Database.

Actions Menu.

From here you can start forwarding, disconnect users and run Housekeeping.

Windows Menu.

From here you can open the Console window, which connects you to the BBS, and the Monitor window.