golden

README

Golden Point 1.x

Golden Point is a FidoNet (FTN) point package written with in Golang to provide a mailer, tosser and other related utilities.

To work with GoldenPoint after starting you will need to open your browser on address http://127.0.0.1:8080

Project status can be found at https://github.com/vit1251/golden/projects/6

Features

Golden Point provides:

• Mailer
  • [FTS-1026] Binkp/1.0 minimum protocol realization
    • password protected sessions
    • 5D addressing for Fidonet and FTN technology compatible networks
    • exchange of netmail packets and archmail bundles in both directions, including poll and mail pickup, as well as transfer of any binary or ASCII files
    • ensuring integrity of transmitted mail and files
    • simultaneous bi-directional transmission
    • maximizing performance over packet switched data networks
  • [FTS-1027] Binkp/1.0 optional protocol extension CRAM
• Tosser
  • [FSC-0001] A Basic FidoNet(r) Technical Standard
  • [FTS-0009] MSGID / REPLY; A standard for unique message identifiers and reply chain linkage
  • [FSC-0039] A Type-2 Packet Extension Proposal
  • [FTS-4000] CONTROL PARAGRAPHS
  • [FTS-4001] ADDRESSING CONTROL PARAGRAPHS
  • [FRL-1004] Timezone information in FTN messages
• Tracker
  • [FTS-5006] TIC parser
  • [FTS-5006] TIC builder

Documentation

You may read more documentation on https://github.com/vit1251/golden/tree/master/docs

Binary builds

You may download binary builds

• The unstable version (night) build provided in CI/CD system on https://github.com/vit1251/golden/actions
• Stable version (release) build provided in https://github.com/vit1251/golden/releases

Install from source code

Prepare build environemnt

To compile Golden Point your system MUST have next product:

* Golang >= 1.16
* Node >= 1.14
* NPM

Golang and Node MAY use network to download dependencies.

Building routine

On Linux system with x86_64 architecture:

# ./scripts/make-build-linux-gnu.sh
# ./golden-linux-amd64 -P 8080 --debug

That's all.