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- How to setup GOMail with D'Bridge
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-
-
- If you are currently running your Wildcat system with another
- Tosser and have it operating correctly right now then you should be
- able to go directly to the GOEdit and configure GOMail to your
- system.
-
-
- First thing you need is a copy of D'Bridge and run the basic
- install that D'Bridge has for it. When you get that part done
- there is very few things that you will need to do to get it
- running. I will go through everything that you will need to have
- set to have gomail operate properly.
-
- In the D'bridge setup menu there are 6 menus that you can go into
- and in there, there will be more sub menus. "MAIL", "Editor", and
- "Utilities" will not be need for the setup of GOMAIL. Go straight
- to the "Config" menu and you will notice 8 sub menus. The first
- one Basic Configuration we will need to go into and setup our
- system in there. Figure 1.3 is how I have my system setup in this
- screen.
-
- STEP 1
-
- Notice you will want to put your primary address in this screen (If
- you do not have one then just set it up as 1:1/999 till you get
- one. Below I explain how to get one.) Enter any alias addresses you
- have too if you have any. An alias is another network number into
- your system. If you are just starting out with only one network
- then you will not have any aliases. You will also notice that this
- screen is where you enter most of the information about who you
- are.
-
- STEP 2
-
- The next screen we will go to is the DIRECTORY PATHS screen this is
- off the Config menu too. This is where you will put all your
- directory paths in.. the most important ones in this screen to
- GOMail are the first two. Netmail Path and Inbound Files Path, if
- you have looked at the GOMail configuration program already then
- you will notice that in the Paths menu in GOEdit you have these two
- directory paths listed. make sure that what you put in D'bridge
- you put the exact same thing in GOEdit. The rest of the paths in
- this D'bridge screen are optional and again you can see what i have
- put in there if you want to do something similar.
-
- STEP 3
-
- Your Nodelist needs to be setup too before you can do any outgoing
- calls. To do this you will need to get a "RAW NODELIST". You
- should be able to get this file from anyone in your area or from
- your Net work Coordinator. A network coordinator is someone
- designated in your area to be the main person that oversees echo
- mail for a particular network. If you do not have one or you live
- in a small area and no one there runs a Mail system then you may
- have to contact a REGIONAL COORDINATOR and ask him for a nodelist.
- Once you get your nodelist it will be a file like NODELIST.240 in
- TXT format and NODELIST.A40 in ARC compressed form. Once you get
- this file then you are ready to place it in the directory you have
- told D'bridge that this file exist. Notice in figure 1.7 I have
- mine on the O:\db\nodelist directory. When typing in this
- information the number you see to the right of figure 1.7 should
- not be typed in they will be added automatically by D'bridge. Also
- notice that there is a space between the drive\path and the name
- NODELIST NODEDIFF make sure you have spaces between these too. You
- will notice that I am in four networks. NODELIST (FIDO), OURLIST
- (OURNET), SNETLIST (SAUDI NET), and POLICNET (POLICE NET). If you
- are only going to be in one network then you will only have one
- entry here. Most of the other information in this screen should not
- need to be changed.
-
- Once you get you nodelist compiled (D'bridge will do it
- automatically the next time you start it up), then the next thing
- you will need to do is get you Primary Address from your
- coordinator. This will most likely be the same person you got the
- nodelist from and if it isn't they should be able to tell you who
- is.
-
-
- STEP 4
-
- This is very important and this step must be made in Figure 1.8 you
- will see the Packet/Mail control. In here you will need to make
- sure that you INBOUND MAIL HANDLING is set to EXTERNAL. This tells
- D'bridge to let GOMail process the unarchiving, forwarding, and
- repacking of mail. YOU MUST DO THIS! otherwise your mail will not
- be imported into Wildcat and could cause everything not to work.
- The rest of the information doesn't really concern GOMail and you
- should refer to the D'bridge doc's for their definitions.
-
-
- STEP 5
-
- This will probably be the most difficult part in setting up
- D'bridge mainly because this part will depend on your BAT file that
- starts up D'bridge. Included in the D'Bridge instructions with
- GOMail you will notice a BAT file called RUN-DB.BAT what is in the
- screen in Figure 1.9 depends on that BAT file and with out it
- D'bridge will not work properly. If you are unsure what your doing
- then follow this part the whole way with no sort cuts because this
- is were you may goof if anywhere at all. Listed below is the BAT
- file with an explanation of what each line does.
-
- ECHO OFF (Turns ECHO OFF)
- :START (Defines the start of the BAT file)
-
- IF 2==%LIVE% GOTO LOADWC (Checks to see if it is a BBS call)
- SET LIVE= (Clears the environment variable LIVE)
- SET BAUD= (Clears the environment variable BAUD)
- O: (*Changes to the O: Drive where D'bridge is)
- CD \DB (*Changes to the D'bridge directory)
- DB (Runs the D'Bridge program)
- IF ERRORLEVEL 96 GOTO LOADBBS (Checks to see if its a BBS Call)
- IF ERRORLEVEL 30 GOTO TOSSGM (Checks to see if Mail came in)
- GOTO END
-
- :LOADWC (This paragraph is ran if there is a BBS Caller online)
- SET LIVE= (Clears the environment variable LIVE)
- P: (*Changes to the P: Drive where Wildcat resides)
- CD \WC40 (*Changes to my Wildcat directory)
- CAT1 %BAUD% (*Starts Up the CAT BAT file and Passes the baud rate
- as parameter 1 to the CAT1.BAT this will be used to
- tell Wildcat what baudrate the caller is at)
-
- GOTO START
-
- :LOADBBS
- BBS.BAT (This is the BAT file that D'bridge will make from figure
- 1.9 if you notice the commands ECHO SET BAUD=*C > BBS.BAT
- and the 3 other lines below it are necessary for this
- type of operation to work.)
-
- :TOSSGM (TOSS GOMAIL Execution goes here if mail was received)
- SET LIVE= (Clears the environment variable)
- SET BAUD= (Clears the environment variable)
- O: (*Changes to the O: Drive where GOMAIL resides)
- CD \GOMAIL (*Changes to the GOMAIL directory)
- GOMAIL TOSS (Executes GOMAIL and TOSS's mail that was received)
- GOTO START (Starts the RUN-DB Bat file over)
-
- :END
-
- IF ERRORLEVEL=1 THEN GOTO START (This will start the RUN-DB.BAT
- file over if there was an
- unexpected error. This is used
- so that your system is not left
- hanging.)
-
-
-
- You should only have to change the lines that have a '*' asterisk
- in the comments. This will configure your bat file to change to
- the proper drive and directory. The original BAT file will not
- have these comments in it so you will want to have this printed out
- for reference.
-
-
- Below is my CAT1.BAT file this is the Node that runs
- D'bridge/Gomail on my system. Most of the SET's can be omitted but
- you may want them in there if you run the programs I run.
- SET WCMDM=168.MDM (My 16.8 MDM file for my USR DS)
- SET WCNODEID=1 (My node number for this node)
- SET WCPORTID=1 (The comport the modem is on)
- SET NODEPATH=P:\WC40\WCWORK\NODE2\ (This sets the Nodepath for
- BI-Cats/BiModem)
- SET DSZLOG=P:\WC40\WCWORK\NODE2\DSZ.LOG (This sets the DSZLOG for
- BIModem and HSLINK)
- SET HOMEPATH=P:\WC40\ (Defines the HOMEPATH for BI-Cats)
- SET WCIRQID=4 (Defines the comport IRQ)
- SET WCHOME=P:\WC40 (Defines the HOMEPATH for WildChat)
- SET COMBASE=1016 (Defines the COMBase for WildChat)
- WILDCAT /B %1 (Starts up Wildcat and passes it the Baudrate)
- NODEUP 1 (Makes my Netmail line show waiting for calls)
- O: (Changes to the O: drive)
- CD \GOMAIL (Changes to the GOMail Directory)
- GOMAIL SCAN (Checks to see if anyone entered a new message)
- CD \DB (Changes to the D'bridge directory)
- RUN-DB (Starts the D'bridge BAT file again)
-
- Now like I said if you don't use some of the programs I use then
- you may delete those lines. They shouldn't hurt anything by being
- in there for a trial run.
-
- That's the end of this help file hopefully you should have the
- D'bridge portion of the D'bridge/GOMail set up complete.
-