Hi Goody, nice to have you on board.
There is a lot of opportunity for experimenting in pskmail, I think it is one of the
front line activities of digital ham radio at the moment.
And there is lots of room for helping to improve it. Especially on the documentation
side. Every day I have to choose between
1: relaxing
2: improving pskmail (relaxing)
3: writing documentation (stress)
Most of the times 2: wins. I hope the user community will organize its own
documentation so I can go on improving pskmail :) I think the wiki is a good place
to do so.
There are a lot of plans on my todo list, some of them being:
* Test and release server version 0.5
* Test the new protocol version I have developed for bad links with lots
of QRN and QSB (with FEC and memory receive)
* Use the time the server is idle (95% of the time) for HF interlinking with other servers
without degrading the service level for users.
* Implement a telnet service on the server so you can connect to a
conference bridge
To answer your question about 'what if the internet goes down',
the clients can relay messages via the mail system in 'manned' mode.
This was a request from the EmComm people, who cannot always reach
a server. And HF linking the servers is one of my pet projects. I am developing
a DTN (Delay Tolerant Network) for the servers based on store-and-forward.
But all this is going to take lots of time, and I can use all the help I can
get :)
73,
Rein PA0R
Greetings,
I just learned of PSKmail a couple of days ago and have been playing
with the Live CD. I'm planning on firing up an instance of Ubuntu
either on a dedicated box or a VMware virtual machine to run PSKmail
more permanently.
I've been connecting to WB5CON and experimenting. I sent one piece of
email yesterday, although I didn't have my settings uploaded, so it
appears to have sent the email out from a default account. I haven't
been able to connect well tonight to experiment more.
I'm piecing together bits and pieces from the documentation, so this
system is starting to make sense to me. One question I have is what if
the Internet "goes down" everywhere (the ultimate doomsday scenario :-)
)? I understand each server can have its own mbox mail server. Is
there going to be a provision to link servers together, kind of like a
server-to-server over-the-air SMTP and routing protocol?
PSKmail really intrigues me. I'd like to write some documentation and
perhaps fire up a server here on the east coast of the US. (I have
about 12 years experience on Linux and can do some Perl coding.)
73
Goody
K3NG
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