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- F I D O G A T E
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- Gateway Software UNIX <-> FIDO
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- General Information
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- This is FIDOGATE, a gateway software between the worlds of FIDONET and the
- UNIX mail/news system. FIDOGATE will convert FIDO mail packets to RFC822-style
- messages and vice versa.
-
- Requirements for FIDOGATE:
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- o Something that gets you FIDONET mail.
- The original version of this software included fcall, a very base
- FIDONET mailer. Because fcall was only capable of FTS-0001 handshake
- (doesn't support YooHoo / WaZOO) and I'm not using a FIDO mailer on
- the UNIX system at all, the sources for fcall have been deleted from
- this distribution. Lately I got a modified version of rfmail 0.3.6
- from Christian Seyb (root@gold.doit.sub.org), which includes also a
- WaZOO capable fcall. So if you desperately want a FIDO mailer try this
- one, it's available for FRequest at 2:242/6 (RFMAILCS.TAZ, 180K, HST/V.32).
- Otherwise I recommend using a UNIX version BinkleyTerm, which should
- be there (at least corresponding to `Latest Version' in FIDO News).
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- o Installed news system. (BNews or CNews, I recommend the later one)
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- o A mail user agent. (I use elm, but you can use mail, if it calls
- rmail to deliver mail)
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- Optional:
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- o A domain based mail transport agent. (e.g. smail 3.1)
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- FIDOGATE basically consists of three programs:
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- funpack unpacks FIDO mail packets in single RFC messages.
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- frecv feeds output of funpack to rnews or rmail, also
- does some domain checking for the mail gateway.
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- rfmail reads RFC messages and converts them into an intermediate
- formats suitable for FIDO.
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- fpack packs these intermediate messages to a FIDO mail packet.
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- Further included is
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- rmail a replacement for rmail. This one looks out for mail addressed
- to the FIDO domain and passes them to rfmail, other mail is
- handed over to the original version of rmail. It also does some
- rudimentary UUCP rerouting of domain addresses.
- (This program is for those people who don't have sendmail
- or smail.)
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- msgidseq a message id number generator for the news system.
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- See file INSTALL for information about installing the software.
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- This stuff is a derived version of a posting to Usenet's alt.sources
- some time ago. I rewrote much of the code and enhanced it in several
- places, so it had changed a lot.
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- The original authors are:
- Teemu Torma wrote the first version.
- Heikki Suonsivu did some changes and improvements and posted version
- 0.3.3 to the net.
- EMail: FIDO 2:504/1
- ...!mcsun!santra!hsu
- HSU@FINGATE.BITNET
- Also used is the getdate.y date/time parser written by
- Steven M. Bellovin (unc!smb).
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- $Date: 91/01/26 15:37:14 $, Martin Junius
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