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Q: How do I post email to the gateway?
A: This is a message originally made by Burt Juda. Where
1:1/31 is specified, you may subsitute the address that
you have defined for your gateway (or the local gateway,
if you are posting this for your net).
Area: UFGATE
Date : Apr 11 '94, 21:24
From : postmaster@fidonet.fidonet.org 1:1/31.0
To : All
Subj : How to Send Mail to Internet
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
[Automated Posting]
How to Use the FidoNet/Internet Gateways
========================================
I. Sending from FidoNet => Internet
To send mail FROM a FidoNet Node TO someone on an Internet or UUCP site.
What you must know:
1) The site name of the Internet node the user is on.
2) The login name or mail alias (the mailbox name) that the
user you want to send to uses there.
3) The FidoNet address of the UUCP Gateway.
These are flagged in the Nodelist with the "GUUCP" flag.
You should get the first two pieces of information from the person
that you want to send mail to.
With these bits of information do the following steps:
1) Go to the Net-Mail area of the FidoNet node.
2) Enter a message addressed to the UserName "Uucp" at the
address of the gateway node.
(The default INbound gateway for Zone-1 is 1:1/31).
NOTE: The most common error is that the UserName in the
FidoNet Header is NOT "Uucp". Some software will add trailing
spaces to the UserName. The gateway software will not tolerate
this anomaly.
3) The very FIRST line must contain the Internet address in
the format:
To: username@machine.domain
followed by a BLANK line.
(The "To:" is MANDATORY.)
There must be nothing else on that line! Do NOT include the
(Full Name) which the message coming FROM the Internet may
contain.
Do NOT use bang!path type addresses on messages going thru
1:1/31 as they will probably NOT be interpreted properly.
The "smart-host" which 1:1/31 relies on knows how to handle
BITNET addresses if given in the form 'user@machine.BITNET'.
Do NOT enclose the address in "quotes", and do NOT enclose
it in <angled brackets>. Those are special notations
which only the Internet side of the gateways understand.
NOTES:
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The default gateway at 1:1/31 can also handle the message properly
if you put the Internet address in the User_Name field of
of the FidoNet header.
There is no need to use the usual UFGATE style addressing.
The gateway software we run will take care of all those
logistics for you.
Mail coming from the Internet via 1:1/31 will most likely already
have the 'user@machine.domain' address in the FidoNet Header.
In most cases, you need only use your normal 'reply' mechanism,
sending the message back to the same UserName at 1:1/31.
Some software will strip everything after the '@' sign, leaving
an un-replyable message. In that case, you'll need to re-address
your reply to 'Uucp' and copy the address from the "From:" line
into the "To: user@machine.domain" line at the TOP of your reply.
The gateway software will contain the correct return-address
in your message. There is no need to specify your
return-address in the body of your message.
Your message will be from 'User.Name@fNODE.nNET.zZONE.fidonet.org'.
4) Enter the rest of your message as you normally would. When
you're finished, save it and it will be sent to your friend
automagically.
5) Any other problems, please consult your local SysOp or send
mail to the SysOp of the Gateway node. (In the case of
1:1/31, please send to "postmaster".)
6) One final note. 1:1/31 does **NOT** unpack any mail which
is from "Unlisted Systems", *including* POINTS!
Point systems *must* route their mail thru the BossNode
or up thru the FidoNet BackBone (we pickup several times
per day from the Zhub). If you send your mail Direct to
1:1/31 from a Point system, it will be LOST!!!
----------------------------------------------------
II. Sending from Internet => FidoNet
To send mail from an Internet Site TO a user that calls a Fido-Net system.:
What you must know:
1) The node number of the Fido-Net system that your friend calls.
2) The exact UserName s/he logs in with.
With these bits of information do the following (assuming that you are
sending a NEW message and NOT just replying to a message you received).
The "smart" way, or RFC822 @ style method:
-----------------------------------------
The address of a FidoNet Node looks like this: 1:107/309.0. Usually
the 1: and .0 are left off, but they are there by default.
(In Europe it is 2: and in the Pacific Basin it is 3:)
That address can be translated as "Zone 1, Net 107, FidoNode 309,
Point 0." or f309.n107.z1.fidonet.org - the "Fully Qualified
Domain Name" of a FidoNode.
Another example is 1:107/309.2 which would be written as
p2.f309.n107.z1.fidonet.org (since there is a point number other than 0,
we have to specify it). Note also that we are only using zone 1.
This will also work for zones 2 and 3, just use z2 or z3 as appropriate.
Note that FidoNet systems usually use a "Firstname Lastname" logon.
You will need to express that as First.Last, using a DOT in place of
the SPACE.
Addresses can be interpreted as:
First.Last@[p###.]f###.n###.z#.fidonet.org where:
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
| | | | | | `------`--- domain
| | | | | `---- Zone number (IMPORTANT)
| | | | `-------- Net number
| | | `------------- Node number
| | `------------------- Point number (optional)
| `------------------ User's LAST Name
`------------------------ User's FIRST Name
The Point number need only be used if non-zero.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) on the Internet for the .fidonet.org
domain will tell your server the IP-address of the MX-receiver
for the gateway node that is handling traffic for that particular
"Net" within FidoNet. (For those Nets that do NOT have a gateway with
an MX-receiver, traffic will be routed to the MX-receiver for
1:1/31. The message is gated and routed via the FidoNet backbone
for routing to the local Net.)
Burt Juda
hostmaster@fidonet.fidonet.org
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* Origin: When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt (1:1/31)