Hello ROBERT.   
      
   22 Apr 16 01:45, you wrote to me:   
      
    RW> -=> Jeff Smith wrote to All <=-   
      
    JS>> I guess I never paid that much attention. Is BBBS capable of   
    JS>> providing a Fido or FTN feed via FTP? I had a recent  request for   
    JS>> an FTP feed but haven't upto this point looked at that   
    JS>> capability. Least not since the John Souvestre days.   
      
    JS>> I know that BBBS can call out via FTP. I have written several   
    JS>> bash scripts that will do that. But haven't looked at BBBS  being   
    JS>> capable of feeding downlinks via FTP. I have ProFTPd  installed   
    JS>> but it is a little overkill for the task. Anyone  have thoughts?   
      
    RW> The answer to your question, to the best of my knowledge, is no.  To   
    RW> do this, you would need a third party FTP server running and scripts   
    RW> written to move mail packets to and from your BBBS machine.   
      
   Yeah. I went ahead and setup ProFTPd to use Linux's own user authentication   
   abilities to control ftp user access. Each ftp user is limited to their   
   particular ftp home directory and it's subs. Then BBBS's tosser puts and   
   looks in the ftp user(s) subs when tossing.   
      
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