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SEA Technical Memorandum #0105, Using SEAdog with RBBS
Contributed by: Charles R. Lekowski
Last updated: February 15, 1989
Copyright 1989 by System Enhancement Associates, Inc.
Using SEAdog With RBBS
This document describes how to interface RBBS-PC version 17.1 with the
SEAdog network mail system.
Beginning with version 15.1C, RBBS-PC is capable of supporting the use of
NetMail. By using netmail, a sysop can open a whole new world to his users
that they never dreamed was possible. Now BBS's numbering over 3000+ can
connect their systems over a vast electronic mail network all across the
world.
SEAdog is a full-featured electronic mail system based on the personal
computer and using standard telephone lines. It is a sophisticated store-
and-forward mail system which can be configured in a virtually unlimited
number of network topologies (more on this later). Unlike some networks,
the end user never need concern himself with network routing as it all
happens automatically. The user just enters and retrieves messages, SEAdog
takes care of the details.
The hardware necessary to run RBBS-PC is sufficient to run SEAdog. The
heart of SEAdog is the network mail server, MAILER.EXE. This is the program
that places and receives phone calls, handles message routing, and so
forth.
SEAdog may be invoked in one of two ways. The first, and most preferred
method is to have SEAdog load RBBS-PC. This way parameters such as Time and
Baud rate are passed to the batch file that loads the BBS. These parameters
will adjust the time that a user usually gets on the system to allow for an
upcoming mail event as well as telling the BBS the baud rate of the caller.
To set RBBS-PC up in this manner, two parameters must be changed in the
RBBS-PC.DEF configuration file. The first option is to tell RBBS-PC how it
will recycle after a caller logs off. Parameter 163 is where you would
define this option. The default for this would be set to "INTERNAL" where
RBBS would return back to the sysop menu screen. If you specify "SYSTEM",
then RBBS-PC will exit to DOS and will re-invoke SEAdog. The second option
is to let RBBS-PC drop to DOS at a time when telephone costs are lower and
invoke the mailer so that it begins placing phone calls to other SEAdog
systems to pass them your outgoing mail and receive incoming phone calls.
Parameter 261 allows the sysop to specify what time of day that RBBS-PC is
supposed to drop to DOS.
Parameter 262 is used to allow RBBS-PC to handle "store-and-forward" mail
of messages and files. This option is set to "SEADOG" to tell RBBS-PC that
a front end mailer is being used in conjunction with RBBS-PC.
This document is not intended to replace the SEAdog manual, but rather to
provide information that an RBBS sysop would find useful when configuring
RBBS-PC to run with SEAdog. A separate program, such as SMLNET.EXE by
Darwin Collins or NETMAIL.EXE by Rod Bowman, is required for the BBS users
to be able to read and enter the netmail/echomail messages, since the
SEAdog message base format is not yet compatible with RBBS-PC.
The SEAdog mailer must be told to pass non-mail callers (i.e. humans) to
RBBS. This is done with the BBS statement in the CONFIG.DOG file, like so:
BBS RBBS-PC 1 RBBS-PC.DEF /*T /*B
This tells the SEAdog mailer to load RBBS directly. This is the simplest
method, but it does not allow for doors or for sysop drop-to-DOS functions.
Doors ard remote sysop functions can be handled by using a batch file, like
this:
:Loop
CD/RBBS
If exist Rctty.Bat del Rctty.Bat
RBBS-PC /%1 /%2
If not exist Rctty.Bat goto EXIT
Rctty.Bat
Goto LOOP
:Exit
CD/MAIL
If this batch file is named RBBS.BAT, then the following statement must be
in your CONFIG.DOG file:
BBS C:\RBBS *T *B
SEAdog's default banner states that it is a private mail system, and asks
the caller to hang up. You will want to change this. You can use either
or both of two methods. The first is the BANNER statement in your
configuration file. Whatever follows the word "BANNER", up to the end of
the line or a semicolon, is displayed instead of the default banner. A
typical example might be:
BANNER SEAboard system -- stand by for RBBS
You can also create a text file named BANNER.DOG, which will be displayed
instead of the banner string to any callers outside of mail events. This
file may contain anything you like, and may be as long as you like, but we
recommend that you keep it short, as SEAdog banners cannot be interrupted.
RBBS-PC is copyrighted by Tom Mack, and is distributed by the Capitol PC
Users Group.