Run BlueWave (Offline QWK Mail Reader) inside a Docker container using noVNC for browser access.

BlueWave is a classic offline QWK mail reader used with Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). This container runs BlueWave in a DOS environment and exposes it via noVNC in your browser.

In this project We use docker-novnc

You can either use docker-compose or run docker by yourself.

Published on GitHub Container Registry:

ghcr.io/rainmanh/docker-bluewave

Copy .env.example to .env if you want to use environment variables from a file. Otherwise, export them manually:

export BLUEWAVE_DOWN=./mail-down
export BLUEWAVE_UPLOAD=./mail

• BLUEWAVE_DOWN: BlueWave will store in here the REP (replies) file generated by BlueWave that you need to upload to the BBS.

• BLUEWAVE_UPLOAD: It's where you have to place the .qwk file

Then you just run the following:

docker-compose up -d

Then open:

http://localhost:8080/vnc.html

Simply using docker.

For example:

docker run -p 8080:8080 \
  -v ./down:/root/dos/BWAVE/DOWN \
  -v ./up:/root/dos/BWAVE/UPLOAD \
  ghcr.io/rainmanh/docker-bluewave:latest

Then open:

http://localhost:8080/vnc.html