Subtext 1.0 is a multi-user BBS server that is developed on and for Macintosh System 6 (and above). It supports dialing access through a serial modem and Telnet access through MacTCP.

Features:

- Multithreaded, multi-user BBS server that runs on System 6+
- Telnet support through MacTCP
- Direct serial modem support (no Communications Toolbox)
- Integrated ANSI-capable local console
- Local log window with smart screen blanking
- Multiple threaded message boards
- Multi-user interactive chat
- Private messaging/mail
- File uploading and downloading with ZMODEM support
- Secure user password storage with SHA256
- View/menu templates with variable expansion
- Configurable main menu key shortcuts
- Telnet brute-force IP banning by sending UDP packets to a firewall host

To see the BBS server in action, you can telnet to the Kludge BBS at klud.ge, visit klud.ge in a web browser, or dial +1-312-654-0090 with a modem.

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Screenshot in action

• Fix crash that could occur when more than one user is in chat, one user quits chat, and then remaining users continue to chat
• Fix problem when running under non-MultiFinder where subsequent runs would fail with errors opening board and folder databases because they were not properly closed on the first run

- Add support for FTN (FidoNet) EchoMail and NetMail, with support for fetching from and sending to a Binkp hub, including PKZIP archives of packets

- Move mail to a separate database file for easier backup

- Implement sysop paging/answering, displaying the user's message on the screen with a beep

- Implement custom "NoModem" protocol for file transfers when a host is connecting through the trusted host assuming this is a web gateway

- List more items per screen in boards, files, and sysop

- List newest mail first and a global setting to prune mail after a configurable amount of days

- Add options to sysop menu to forcefully hangup/reset the modem, and to reboot the system

- Add timezone UTC offset setting, use to convert timestamps in FTN messages to local timezone, and add a "timezone" template variable

- Add setting for separate maximum idle time for sysops (which can be set to 0 to disable)

- Mask password fields in sysop settings menu

- Add BOARD_LIST_BOARDS command for main menu, which lists all local boards

- Faster session log pruning, fix a bug where failed logins were still being written to the session log

- Fix SHA1 checksum calculation for uploaded files and show progress during calculation

- Implement folder file description/notes editing and add an option for sysop to recalculate SHA1 checksum before saving

- Try to handle malloc failures gracefully everywhere rather than exiting

Changes in this version:

- Add support for using an IP geolocation database to lookup connecting telnet IP addresses and log their location, storing it in the session log and making it available in 'who' and 'last' menus

- Dynamically apply config changes made from the sysop menu without requiring a restart

- Add a config setting to change the number of rings to wait before answering the modem, possibly to allow for caller ID information to come through after the first ring which will get logged

- Add '&D2' (hangup on DTR flash) to default modem initialization string to make it clear we need it for proper hangup

- Do faster sorting in many places
- Allow "guest", "new", and "signup" logins to be made in mixed-case
- Add 'l' key in post view in boards to list posts, and 's' to show the post again
- In sysop settings menu, make 'q' stop pagination at the 'more' prompt
- Fix a bug in sysop settings editor that could have caused config corruption if the sesion was disconnected before exiting/saving the editor
- Do more TCP connection status checks during binkp connections to detect dropped connections
- Fix a bug in pagination that caused extra newlines to be shown in certain terminals, and a bug that caused incorrect wrapping when the first character of a post was a newline
- Fix a bug in boards that was causing '>' not to work in some cases
- Fix text selection and copying in the logger window