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WaterGate FAQ
30/05/1996
This is the first version of the WaterGate FAQ. It was compiled from
the latest messages I sent for support by Ramon van der Winkel. You
will find two sections in this FAQ: Informational and Operational.
The first has information about WaterGate itself and where you can
get it and go for support. The second part has answers about
questions that raise when you use WaterGate.
INFORMATIONAL
Q: What is WaterGate?
A: WaterGate is a message processor. In Fidonet terms, it is a tosser
that can handle Internet mail and Usenet news as well. Apart from
distributing messages in Fidonet technology format, it can also do
the complete distribution of UUCP mail and news. Next, it is a
gateway between the two formats, allowing Fidonet users transparent
access to UUCP mail (Internet mail, e-mail, etc.) and all the
newsgroups.
Q: Where can I go for support?
A: You can send e-mail to ramon@wsd.wline.se.
Q: What is the latest release?
A: At the time of this writing, the latest release is 0.20. But, you
can always send an e-mail to watergate-info@wsd.wline.se to request
a text-file with the information about the latest release, the
patches you can get and other files you can request via e-mail.
Q: Where can I get the latest release?
A: There are several Fido systems where you can file-request it and
an attempt is made to keep it available at certain FTP sites as
well.
The magic name WTRGATE can be used at these Fido sites:
2:200/111 (SE), 2:280/802 (NL), 1:320/42 (USA), 1:373/26 (USA),
3:362/15 (Portugal), 2:244/1195 (Germany), 2:2501/307 (UK).
Anonymous FTP: ftp.nijenrode.nl /pub/watergate,
ftp.sbbs.se /pub/watergate
WWW: http://www.mindport.net/~szarka/brazerko/watergate.html
http://www.nijenrode.nl/~michel/wsd/wsd.html,
http://www.htsa.hva.nl/~martijnd/WaterGate
Q: How do I know when a new version is release?
A: Announcements are made on the mailing list watergate@wsd.wline.se.
To connect, write a message to listserver@wsd.wline.se with nothing
in the body of the message, except "connect watergate".
OPERATIONAL
Q: I am connected to 10 newsgroups, but when WaterGate runs, it
creates areas for more than 50 newsgroups! And it creates more
every day!
A: One of its fine options that keeps you from typing a lot! The
problem is that a news message is always crossposted in more than
one newsgroup. And WaterGate does not know which of these is the
one you are connected to. So... it checks all the newsgroup names
and if they don't exist, they are automatically created. Look at
the flag "New Area-create" in the user record of your uplink.
Q: The logfile says "Allowing all new newsgroup names"
A: This is because you have not installed a "New newsgroups filter
file", or there is no ROUTE.TDB file, or there is no NEWSFILTER
statement in your ROUTE.TDB file, or it could not find that file,
or that file contains no filter statements.
Q: Log: Allowing ALT.INTERNET.SERVICES (line 0)
A: The "(line 0)" means that it found the rule that allowed it to
create this area in line 0 of the new newsgroup names filter
file. It is line 0 because this file is not present.
Q: Log: Incomplete to-address in .X; Using To: header from .D
Jaap_Aap -> Jaap_Aap@wsd.wline.se
A: Your provider does NOT put the full e-mail address of the
receipant in the .X file, which is basically the enveloppe of the
message. Therefore, WaterGate has to search the .D file for the
complete receipant address in the To: header. Which takes
processing time that could have been avoided. Amongst others...
Q: Log: Incomplete to-address in .X, but To: header from .D is
unreliable! Adding 1st system domain: Jaap_Brother ->
Jaap_Brother@wsd.wline.se
A: Here it gets more serious with the problem I described above. In
this case the To: header in the .D file did NOT contain a proper
receipant address. This happens when a list server distributes a
message to all mailing list receipants. All receipants simply get
a copy of the message that was sent to the list. Because of this
copying, the To: header will not contain the proper e-mail
address, but something like "watergate@wsd.wline.se", while the
.X file reads "Jaap_Brother".
Fortunately, WaterGate does not take the To: line from the .D file
and send the message there, because it would be sent back to the
mailing list if it did that. With all disasterous results of doing
that... so, the only solution left is adding your first system
domain address and sending the message there.
If this message was intended for one of your sub-domains (if you
have any), then the message will not be routed properly, but will
end up in your netmail area instead... nothing to do about that,
except for manual routing with a MAP-UUCP statement. See the
manual for more details about that.
Q: Log: Gating netmail for request@win-uk.net to mail
Translation: "Ramon van der Winkel"%2:280/802.33@fidonet.org
-> Ramon_van_der_Winkel@p33.wsd.wline.se
A: This line is informational and tells shows you the translation of
a Fidonet address to an e-mail address. If the result is not
good enough, then you could install a mapping statement in the
ROUTE.TDB file that overrides this default behaviour. Notice that
the mapping statements are shown as well.
Q: How do I assign a nice e-mail addres to a fidonet user.
A: If you don't like the default behaviour, then you can install
a MAP-UUCP statement in the ROUTE.TDB file. See the manual for
details on this very complex and powerful statement.
An bi-directional example:
MAP-UUCP ramon@wsd.wline.se "Ramon van der Winkel"%2:280/802.33
Notice that the unregistered version only supports five of these
statements.
Q: Log: Translating Mail -> Netmail
Translating Netmail -> Echomail
A: These lines are informational. It shows you how a message is
transported through WaterGate. This was probably a message to
an mailing list. It came in as Mail and was distributed to
everybody that had subscribed with an e-mail address. Next,
it was translated to Netmail and distributed in Fido netmail
format. Then, it was translated to Echomail and send out in
the echomail area. When a UUCP user is connected to that area,
it is translated to News as well.
Q: Log: Intelligently using old Mail header to build the News header
A: This is another informational log line that has to do with the
distribution of a mailing list message. When WaterGate had to
build a news message, it found the original message from the
incoming Mail. It decided to use a number of the original header
lines in the News message, instead of creating new header lines
with system information.
Q: Log: [FidoPktExportMsg] Shrunk too long FromUser_F at export
Created from FromUser_U: From:
gARetH.baBB@p503.f18.n2502.z2.fidonet.org (gARetH baBB)
A: You configured the Gateway to put the e-mail address in the
To: header. But, the maximum length of the Fido To: header
is 36 characters, which is not enough to hold the e-mail
address, which is 41 characters in this case. WaterGate will
cut off the e-mail address and write an Sender: line in the
body of the message.
Q: The messages I process are not that large, but the swapfile is
used all the time. When I start WaterGate I have 100kb free.
Why does WaterGate use the swapfile so "fast"? What can I do to
reduce the swapfile usage?
A: WaterGate can only use the lower memory area (below 640kb) to
store a message that it is processing. It only stores one message
at a time. The DPMI version can use more memory.
When the free memory runs below 70kb, WaterGate swaps out the
message part that is in memory, so all memory becomes available
again to read the next part of the message.
The rest of the 70kb is used for building up a message when
exporting.
To reduce the swapfile usage, you have to reduce the amount of
programs that are loaded in "low" memory. You can check which
programs are loaded with the MS-DOS mem.exe program. If you
run it with the argument /c, you can see exactly which programs
take all the memory. You can either try to remove those program
or to load them in upper memory with the loadhigh statement.
Q: What does the following line in the logfile mean:
[JAM] Trying to work around SubFields length error in ABC (off by 1)
A: There are programs around that do not correctly set a variable in
the JAM header which indicates the number of bytes of all the
header lines that follow. If WaterGate detects this, it writes a
line in the logfile about it and doesn't run into problems anymore.
This log line means there is an other program around that doesn't
update the JAM bases properly.
Q: I have 200 areas. Every time I want to make a change, it takes
WtrConf about 30 seconds to load and then sort them! What can I do
about this?
A: Run "wtrutil database". It will remove all deleted areas from the
database. That should reduce the time to load quite a bit. WtrUtil
also sorts the database alphabetically, so WtrConf doesn't have to
do that anymore.
Q: It is soo much work to connect 200 area for a certain user! Enter
on <subscribed areas>, press Insert, PgDn to the area you want and
press Enter. Then Insert again, etc. etc. Can't this be made more
easy?
A: There are three things already built that make life a lot easier.
First of all, you can find an area by typing in its name. For
example, pressing the letter C will move you to the first area
that starts with a C, etc. etc.
The second option you have is to "tag" areas. Use F5 to set a mark
on the area the cursor is currently on. Press F5 again to remove
it. Then press enter to connect all those areas at once.
The third option is searching for a specified string and tagging
all those areas. Use F6, enter a search string and then enter. F7
to untag the matching areas. Just F6 and enter will tag all areas.
End of WaterGate FAQ