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:

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

Common steps are:

# go build ./cmd/golden
# ./golden --debug

That's all.