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- This file describes briefly, how the fidogate software must be
- put to work.
-
- Sat Sep 15 19:26:36 MEST 1990 / Martin Junius
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Directories:
-
- Main spool directory SPOOL (/u/spool/fidonet)
- ./ M.* packets generated by rfmail
- in/ incoming mail packets
- out/ outgoing mail packets
- unpacked/ unpacked messages
- bad/ messages rejected by rmail or rnews
-
- Lib directory LIBDIR (/u/lib/fidonet)
- Alias aliases fido <-> unix user names
- Areas newsgroup <-> echo mail area
- fnews.cf echo mail config file
- idseq message-id sequence file
- seq mail message-id sequence file
- msgidseq news message id sequence file
- log error messages
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- FIDO mail --> news | mail
-
- - fido mail packet must be in SPOOL/in (any name)
- - program FUNPACK splits this packet into single
- messages (either mail or news) in SPOOL/unpacked
- - program FRECV feeds these messages to either
- rmail or rnews
-
-
- news ---> FIDO echo mail
-
- - relaynews (CNews) calls rfmail -n with the article
- as standard input. Put a line similar to the
- following in news sys file:
-
- fidonet:all/all:L:/u/lib/fidonet/rfmail -n
-
- rfmail creates a spool file in SPOOL.
-
- - fpack creates a outbound packet in SPOOL/out
-
-
- mail --> FIDO mail
-
- - mail or similar program calls rmail, which
- passes the message to the real rmail (mail
- for unix) or to rfmail (mail for FIDO).
- - same as above
-