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DogFight Ver.2 and FrontDoor 1.99c
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Set-up Helper Text
CopyRight November 11,1990
This is a little file I thought would be useful to those SpitFire Sysops
who use FrontDoor and FidoNet. Chris Tysons New Utility Program called
DogFight will Import and Export FidoNet Messages directly from SpitFires
Message Base thus eliminating the need for a Door or another BBS program.
I had no problem importing messages into SpitFire using DogFight with
FrontDoor. I set up FrontDoor so it wouldn't exit on any mail recieved.
When an EchoMail packet was recieved FrontDoor exited anyway using this in
my RunFD.bat file.
IF ERRORLEVEL 110 GOTO MAILOUT
IF ERRORLEVEL 100 GOTO MAILIN
IF ERRORLEVEL 10 GOTO USERBRK
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO FDERROR
:MAILIN
echo off
cd\dog
DFDECOMP C:\FD\FILES\ C:\DOG\WORK\
IF EXIST C:\DOG\WORK\*.PKT GOTO DFIMPORT
ECHO **** NO PACKETS FOUND!!! ****
echo on
cd\fd
GOTO LOOP
:DFIMPORT
echo off
CD\DOG
DFIMPORT L
IF EXIST NOTKNOWN.MSG ECHO **** NOT KNOWN MESSAGE FILE EXISTS ****
echo on
CD\FD
GOTO LOOP
The next step was to figure out how to get FrontDoor to read a *.OUT file.
There really isn't that much out there for the FrontDoor Program as I soon
Found out. This is how I do my mail exporting so that FrontDoor will find
the mail and send it. It took about 2 weeks and several other programs to
make it work. Below is the rest of the pertainent info in my RunFD.bat file.
:MAILOUT
CD\DOG
DFEXPORT L
cd\fd
QM PACK -sDOG_MAIL
CONNECT
GOTO LOOP
I export my mail manually using FrontDoor errorlevels listed in the previous
example. The macro key I've set up is, (Shift) F4, and It works just fine.
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Now that the FrontDoor setup is out of the way we can get into the really
tough part of it. Setting up the other programs. I chose QMail to Mash my
mail. I route everything through the Echo Mail Hub in our area, since I'm only
sending and recieving EchoMail into my BBS system. This is my QM.cfg located
in my FD directory.
Primary_Zone 1
Address 387/504
NetMail C:\FD\DUMDIR
NetFile NoToss C:\FD\Files
Outbound C:\FD\PACKETS 1
Status_Log Qm.Log
Sysop Tom Blalock
Secure
Bad_Msgs C:\FD\Bad_Msgs
Dupes 2000
No_Net_Dupes
No_Content
No_Net_Toss
ARC_Unpack 8 arce %s *.PKT /r
ARC_Unpack 9 pkxarc /r %s *.PKT
ARC_Unpack 10 pak e %s *.PKT
ZOO_Unpack 0 zoo xO %s *.PKT
ZIP_Unpack 0 pkunzip -x %s *.PKT
LHARC_Unpack 0 lharc x %s *.PKT
Routing_Config_File C:\FD\QM_Route.Cfg
Define_Packer ZIP pkzip -a
Pack ZIP 1:387/5
I have taken out most of the % lines so as to save space in this helper file.
The unpack stuff is done by DogFight so its not really needed either. I am
using PKzip to mash the outbound mail. I had to create a Bad_msgs Sub Dir.
in my FD directory. I also had to create another Dir. so QMail wouldn't scan
my actual NetMail area I still use in FrontDoor. I named this Sub Dir. DumDir
Just for the record my Fido Net Address is 1:387/504 and the EchoMail Hub's is
1:387/5
Now I had to figure out how to make the QM_Route.CFG file. The QMail Doc's are
kinda sketchy on this file. This is whats in my QM_Route.CFG file.
SCHED Dog_Mail All 00:00 00:00
ROUTE CRASH 387/5
I'm sure theres more you could get this file to do but it works for my purposes.
At the very least it will get ya going in the right Direction.
Now that we have the configuration files for QMail setup we'll go onto the next
part of the setup. This one took a while to find out about aswell. This next
program is a New one but should be available in your area if not now real soon.
This little program is real easy to set up, its called Connect. FrontDoor
sends files AKA packets (*.pkt). FrontDoor requires a packet to have a file
attachment, thats what the Connect program does.
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The control file setup I use for the Connect program is this:
HOLDDIR C:\FD\PACKETS\
NETMAIL C:\FD\MAIL\
ZONE 1
NET 387
NODE 504
Just like I said this one is real easy and has real good Documentation.
I hope that this file proves to be of benefit to the FrontDoor/SpitFire
sysop who's in Fido Net and wants to have EchoMail inside of SpitFire.
All my users really like it. The way SpitFire reads the messages Statistics
on Log-In makes getting to there Mail real easy. Easier than most any other
BBS system I think.
Just for Good Measure I'll throw in my DogFight.cfg file. Here's what Mine
looks like.
Tom Blalock
1:387/504
1:387/5
West S.A. BBS San Antonio,Texas Howdy Part'ner (512)523-2373
C:\FD\PACKETS\
C:\DOG\WORK\
C:\SF\MESSAGE\
NETMAIL 06
387NET 07
BATPOWER 08
DBRIDGE 09
HOME_REPAIR 10
HUMOR 11
FDECHO 12
DOORHELP 13
LAW 14
4DOS 15
A_CAD 16
INTERUSER 17
DOORWARE 18
LATINO 19
FRANCAIS 20
SCIENCE 21
SALSANET 22
SASALE 23
QUICKBBS 24
SF 25
UFO 26
QUIK_BAS 27
MISSING 28
TELIX 29
ZMODEM 30
BAD_MSGS 31
If ya find that this little helper file was of use to you please send a small
donation my way. Send it to: Tom Blalock 9319 Village Lance San Antonio, TX.
78250
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