Welcome to the paclink-unix distribution.

paclink-unix is a UNIX/Linux client for the Winlink 2000 ham radio email system. It allows the use of email clients to compose & read Winlink messages. Currently mutt, claws-mail, rainloop & thunderbird are actively supported but any mail client that uses IMAP should work.

paclink-unix was originally written by Nicholas S. Castellano N2QZ

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

See the COPYING file for the complete license or click on this link.

Installation notes can be found at this link

Forum & code repository

• Both yahoo groups & the SourceForge repository are deprecated please do not use them. Instead use:
  • Code Repository: https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/paclink-unix
  • Forum: https://groups.io/g/paclink-unix/topics

Installation tips

• To get a copy of the repository using git:

git clone https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/paclink-unix

• or using wget to create a zipped tarball

# To create a tar zipped file, rmsgw.tgz
wget -O paclink-unix.tgz https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/paclink-unix/tarball/master

# To create a directory with source files from the zipped tarball
wget -O - https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsgw/tarball/master | tar -xz

• There are some detailed installation notes at this link

• paclink-unix is built using autotools

  • To build paclink-unix you can use the buildall.sh script. See Installation Notes

Recent News

• The entire change log can be viewed here

01/17/2020 version 0.10

• Fix timeout when transfering many or large files.
• Add gridsquare requirement to config and display warning if not configured.
  • Gridsquare is required for linBPQ32 fix, which is used instead of QTC
• Get rid of all console output in sigalrm() routine which causedg spurious output on timeout detect.
• Detect if ax25 socket has been closed when waiting for a response between outbound & inbound parsing.

12/26/2019 version 0.9

• The QTC line is not output anymore due to linBPQ32 6.0.19.1 crashing when it tries to parse it.
  • To be closer to what Winlink Express looks like that line now looks like the following.
  • This means that gridsquare= needs to be set in the configuration file.

; VE7SPR-10 DE N7NIX (CN88nl)

5/9/2019 version 0.8

• Fixed upper casing password in hash_input
  • Multi case passwords now work.

4/27/2018 version 0.7

• Peer-to-peer working with Airmail & Winlink Express

Other files you might want to peruse:

File name	Description
AUTHORS	Who's involved
ChangeLog	Detailed list of changes
NEWS	Summary of feature changes and fixes
COPYING	GPL version 2