README

Thank you for your interest in MBSE BBS!  We sincerely hope that MBSE BBS
will suit your BBSing needs now and in the future.

Some of the features MBSE has:

* Open source, written in C, and available for UNIX, Linux, and BSD.
* Fully Fidonet capable with these features: built-in mail tosser, TIC
  handler, front-end mailer, areafix, filefix, and more.
* Uses JAM for its message base format
* Able to run DOS doors using DOSemu
* Able to run Linux-native BBS and programs as doors
* Newsgroup and email support for both hosting and gating
* QWK and Blue Wave offline mail support
* Built-in "filefind" feature
* Works with ProFTPD to serve files via FTP
* Works with httpd (Apache) to share BBS statistics and share files
  automatically

For first time installing, see the INSTALL file. After a manual
installation, the HTML documentation is in /opt/mbse/html.  We are
working on providing documentation in other formats such as PDF.

Distribution naming scheme:

mbsebbs-1.0.6.tar.bz2
  |     | | |
  |     | | +--------- minor patchlevel
  |     | +----------- minor version
  |     +------------- major version
  +------------------- package name

For FTN-style distribution, the tar archive and FILE_ID.DIZ are
zipped together in a file with an 8.3-style filename like MBSE-106.ZIP.

If you need support, we support MBSE in Fidonet's MBSE echo (this is
our preferred method of support).

A note from MBSE's original author:

"Since 1 August 2013 I (Michiel Broek) stopped developing this package. But
this is a GPL2 licensed open source package so feel free to continue to
improve it.  I only ask to make it clear to others that it is a modified
package. You can do that by changing the version numbers and messages in
the file configure.ac and then run autoconf to update the configure scripts."

-- The MBSE Development Team