[OZAPRS] VK email server

[Richard Hoskin]

Hi John,

Are you writing this as an add on to UI-View or as a stand alone program?

The reason I ask is that I am looking for a mailing program that will
search
for selected (pre-defined) message text from an APRS message received at
my
UI-View station then send the message containing the text as an Email to
an
email address.

This is the sort of additional functionality I was alluding to in earlier
emails on this subject.

I think another email server for APRS will not be such a bad thing with
additional functions.

For instance the Kenwood D7 is able to handle only 45 characters in its
message. You may like to think of different options that the mail server
could use to overcome this such as the ability to add multiple APRS
messages
together to make one Email using a special control character at the end of
each APRS message. This could also be used for the standard 67 character
APRS message.

Eg APRS Message ends in a '>' means continue to add to current email in
next
message from me.  There are other options that I'm sure people will think
of.

Cheers
Richard
VK3JFK


-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au
[mailto:ozaprs-bounces at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au] On Behalf Of John Williams
Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 12:51 PM
To: ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au
Subject: [OZAPRS] VK email server

People,

I am testing an aprs email server that I cobbled together last night.

It works which is the good part. There is still quite a bit of error
checking to be done as well
as catching  exceptions that will most probably (definitely) occur.

At the moment it will ack your message and shoot off a correctly formatted
message.
It currently does not check if the message was deliverable.

The aprs spec only allows 0 - 67 character in the message field which
includes the email 
address.

So anything over this limit is truncated.  Although most aprs clients will
send the extra text as 
another message anyway and   the server will see this next message as an
invalid aprs email 
message. 

The server will not run 24/7 until I am happy with it.

But if you do want to try , it should be running most of today.

Usage is:
Send a message to VKMAIL
First part of the message text is a valid email followed by a space then
the
text content.

So something like this would be a typical message packet
VK5ZTY>APU24L ::VKMAIL   :vk5zty at bigpond.com  test{00

John 
VK5ZTY




_______________________________________________
ozaprs mailing list
ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au
http://marconi.ics.mq.edu.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs

_______________________________________________
ozaprs mailing list
ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au
http://marconi.ics.mq.edu.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs