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- QUESTION: How does /REPLY work, and how do I find out the right
- data to use for INET.CFG?
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- ANSWER:
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- The Internet Connection! Tips - from James Goldbloom
-
- TIPS FOR USING INET'S "REPLY" FEATURE:
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-
- The REPLY feature of INET will load INET when a user replies to any
- message sent to them, and when the reply is an INTERNET message, INET
- will import the address into the TO: prompt, fully editable, load up
- the editor as usual to reply, then prompt the user to add the address
- into their address book, and immediately export the message. Then
- control will be returned to the BBS. If the reply is NOT an internet
- message (see below on how this is determined) then the user will see
- no different behavior than when normally replying to any message!
-
- Use this command line in each EXTERNAL EDITOR portion of your BBS config
- for each node:
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- C:\inet\inet.exe /REPLY /NODEx
-
- (x=current node number and be sure to have SWAP enabled. This is
- accomplished by specifying *M on the command line for RA/Proboard, or
- specify Swap=Yes in QCONFIG)
-
- In the configuration file INET.CFG, you will see the REPLYADDR keyword.
- This is an exact match to the kludge line of each netmail message. Kludge
- lines are hidden from the user (on some setups, not all) which tell
- the BBS or mail reader where the message originated from, and other
- information which also includes the originating INTERNET address
- from the user who wrote the message. The REPLYADDR kludge is the
- text INET looks for when the reply parameter is initiated.
-
- If this prefix does not work for you, and "Originally_From:" does not
- also, you need to manually examine the MSGTMP file, or an old internet
- message and see the kludge lines, or ask your GATEWAY sysop what the
- kludge line is for the RAW internet origin address. Otherwise, the
- following two methods will also help you determine the proper prefix
- to use for INET...
-
- FIND THE PREFIX USING THE "EXPORT OLD NETMAIL" METHOD (Must be INTERNET):
-
- Step 1: Export a message from the BBS message base to a file, and look at
- it.
- 2: Look for kludge lines nestled between message headers and body text.
- 3: Find the kludge line which has to the right of it the original,
- unformatted Internet style address. This is the RAW address.
- 4: Whatever prefix you find, put that prefix exactly as show into
- INET.CFG
-
- Note: If no kludge lines are found, this means your export function
- strips them, so refer to method two, below!
-
- FIND THE PREFIX USING THE "EDITOR SHELL" METHOD:
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- Step 1: Write a reply to any internet message sent to you or another user.
- 2: Execute a DOS SHELL right after GEDIT or similar full screen editor
- loads up. Usually you can press ALT-J to shell while in the editor.
- 3: Look for MSGTMP (or whatever line your editor reads as defined in
- the proper line of INET.CFG) and examine it.
- 4: Look for the kludge line, using the same steps 2-4 above in the
- other method, as stated earlier.
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- So, you can see that what INET really does is read MSGTMP, search the text
- for the kludge lines and find a match to the prefix you configured in line
- INET.CFG. Once it finds a match, it checks to make sure the message
- is INTERNET, and intercepts accordingly. Otherwise, INET allows a reply
- normally. Thus getting this line right is important for /REPLY to
- work at all, and remember that installing the /REPLY function in qconfig
- for each node allows users to store addresses, and also easily make
- UUCP properly formatted replies with fast export to your netmail directory,
- all fully automated and behind the scenes! /REPLY is just as important
- as /POST, is the point I'm trying to make.
-
- Hope these tips helped a great deal! Enjoy INET, and register today! Mark
- and I worked our butts off to make INET fully featured. Use the /REPLY
- option, and let INET control your Internet replies - automatically!
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- Thanks kindly,
-
- -James Goldbloom (Primary Support Site, INET)
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- ps: Don't forget to register!
-