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G O M A I L A City Limits Software Product A Fido Net Archive Tosser for Wildcat! versions 4.xx Supports Single & Multi-Node Systems GOMAIL.DOC GOMAIL.DOC 2.0 - June 16, 1995 (C)opyright 1994 City Limits Software GOMail (Green-Ortiz Mail) Programming by: Scott Green and Mike Ortiz Documentation by: Richard Bash (1:105/68) dickbash@combatarms.com Product Support Sites: The Software Connection BBS The City Limits BBS (913) 271-2070 USR DS 14400 (501) 621-0066 2-line rollover (913) 271-2071 USR DS 16800 (913) 271-2072 USR DS 14400 Fido Net 1:281/10 (913) 271-2073 USR DS 14400 (913) 271-2074 USR DS 16800 (913) 271-2076 USR DS 16800 Fido Net 1:281/2 and 1:281/3 Both are USR DS 16.8 Magic Freq filename: GOMAIL for the latest released version (501) 636-3718 Voice (6PM-10PM Central) Scott (913) 271-2079 Voice (6PM-10PM Central) Mike For a quick setup, please refer to the QWKSETUP.DOC file. Warranty This product is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind. The entire risk as to the results and performance of the program is assumed by you. Furthermore, we, the authors, do not warrant, guarantee, or make any representations regarding the use of, or the results of the use of, the program and you rely on the program and results solely at your own risk. We, the authors, cannot accept responsibility for system damage, loss of profit, or any other special, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use or inability to use this product. NOTE: Installing GOMail indicates your acceptance of these terms. The term "Wildcat!," as used throughout this document, refers to Wildcat! BBS software published by Mustang Software, Inc. of Bakersfield, California and is a registered trademark of that firm. For further information on Mustang Software products, please contact them at 1-800-999-9619. TABLE OF CONTENTS Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 What is Echomail?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 What is GOMail?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 AREAS.BBS File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 GOEDIT.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 PATHS MENU SELECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 MAILER MENU SELECTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 OPTIONS MENU SELECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Edit Conference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Alias Addresses Sub-Menu Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Archive Overrides Sub-Menu Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 AREAS.BBS Editor Sub-Menu Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Import FIDONET.NA section Sub-Menu Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 ARCHIVERS MENU SELECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 IMPORT/EXPORT MENU SELECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 FILE MENU SELECTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 GOMail commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 What is Echomail? Echomail is a very broad topic with many answers to it. This section is an attempt to give you an understanding of what echomail is and how it can benefit you. Echomail is the process of "ECHOing" a particular message base from one computer system to many others. For those of you who remember BBSing a few years back, you might recall that your favorite local BBS carried several different topics on their system. We generally knew everyone who entered messages there and had seen them around on other systems in our local calling area. Looking back at that time you will also remember that the message traffic was generally low and it always seemed like the same people were always entering the messages. Since most people who were entering messages were on about the same skill level as you, when you wanted to try something new no one really had an answer for you. If you got stuck somewhere, there was not really that much help from the people in your local calling area. Of course, there are experts in every city and many who do know what they are doing. You found the same people answering the majority of the questions. Most of the time these people were the SysOps, the ones who had been through the toughest times with their PC, staying up many nights trying to solve a particular problem. But the traffic of most cities was such that you could read through any of the new messages daily in less than 20 minutes. Thus, the volume of help and answers was very minimal. You might also remember a message base created for a particular hobby, such as baseball cards or genealogy. On a local level these message bases would again be very limited and the amount of traffic minimal. Echomail started out on a local level. Several local systems decided that they wanted to replicate the messages on their system on other systems in town, to allow the readers of any of the participating systems to reply to questions or comments which were entered on any of the other systems. This concept turned out well for several reasons. The user could enter a message on one of the systems for a problem he had and it would be duplicated on the other systems in town. This eliminated the need for him to have to call every one of the individual bulletin boards to enter his question so that he could have a better possibility of someone answering his problem. This idea worked out so well that it went national, and later worldwide. Soon people from all over the world were "echoing" their messages to each other, creating a very large amount of volume in each of the message bases. Today there are literally thousands of different conferences (message bases) which deal with hundreds of different topics. You have your choice of what you want to carry on your BBS. In some of these conferences there are over 500 messages entered daily from people all over the world. They then appear on your system in the middle of the night and give both you and your users access to lots of reading material that pertain to the particular topic of interest. These message bases are nothing compared to your local message base because you do not have the volume of people participating. Echomail allows you or your callers to reach a potential audience of thousands of people. Imagine that you are a new user and you want to know how to format a floppy in one of your drives (obviously you already know how to do this but I wanted to pick a topic we could all relate to). You could enter a message in the DOS/Help conference and overnight your message will be available on hundreds of other systems. The next morning your message is read by thousands of people. Out of all those people, would you not suspect that one of them knew the answer to this question? Yes, they would! In fact, if you were to really ask such a question you could very well get over 50 messages from people all over the world giving you detailed information on how and why you should format your disks. This is what is so great about echomail: it gives you answers, answers you might not ever have gotten were you merely dealing at a local level. Echomail is not just for people who need help. It also has other topical areas, such as discussion/debate echoes, sports related echoes, hobby related echoes and, of course, computer related echoes. Now that you know what echomail is let me tell you a little bit on how it actually works. The system you read/enter mail on is somewhere in a chain ("network" is a more accurate term). It works a lot like the diagram below. This is just a very small diagram to simulate how it works but it will get the basic idea across. For a true picture of how many nodes are in a network you could safely add about 100-200 more of the boxes into the diagram. This simple diagram works like this. o 1:14/0 is the "hub" (Main distributor for a particular area) o 1:140/0 is a smaller "hub" for a smaller geographical area o 1:281/0 is a Network Coordinator (the "hub" for a particular network) o 1:281/10 and 1:281/20 are both nodes in the 281 Network. The typical path for mail coming i=n=t=o the network would follow the path 1:14/0 to 1:140/0 to 1:281/0 then to 1:281/10 and 20. The path for mail leaving the network works in an identical fashion; however, the direction of the flow is reversed. As an example, imagine that someone on the BBS 1:281/20 enters a message in the Baseball Cards echo. That system will send that very message to 1:281/0. 1:281/0 will then send the message to 1:281/10 and 1:140/0. 1:140/0 will, in turn, send that same message to 1:14/0 and 1:14/0 will then distribute it to all its hubs, effectively putting that message on every one of the systems in the network. This is what echomail is and how it works in a nutshell. ---------- | 1:14/0 | ---------- / / / ----------- | 1:140/0 | ----------- \ \ ----------- \| 1:281/0 | ----------- / \ ------------ / \ ------------ | 1:281/10 |/ \| 1:281/20 | ------------ ------------ What is GOMail? GOMail is a message tosser for the type of echomail system previously described. It basically tosses Fido formatted packets that are received by a Wildcat! or Mainline BBS. It also receives packets and puts them into your Wildcat! or Mainline message databases so that you and your users may read and reply to them. GOMail works in conjunction with a "front end" (also called a "mailer") to get mail to and from your system. GOMail has been thoroughly tested with two front ends, D'Bridge and Front Door. GOMail was originally released on October 7, 1992 and has since been completely rewritten to meet the demands of Wildcat! version 4.xx. GOMail will continue to be enhanced. The material in this document describes the features and setup options of GOMail. Here is a screen display of GOMail during the tossing of an incoming packet of mail. ┌─────────────────────────────────┤ Progress ├──────────────────────────┐ │Tossing ███████████████████████████████████████████▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ┌─────────┤ Instant Stats ├─────────┐┌─┤ Mail Archives ├─┐┌─┤ Packets ├─┐ │ Msgs : 298 Msg # 345 ││ ││ │ │ Msgs Fwd : 0 Msg Size:505 ││ ││ │ │ Msgs In Pkt : 38 ││ ││ │ │ Tossed In Pkt : 38 ││ ││ │ │ Dupes In Pkt : 0 ││ ││ │ │Msgs Fwd In Pkt : 0 ││ ││ │ │ Toss Speed : 347 / MIN ││ ││ │ │ Fwd Speed : 0 / MIN ││ ││ │ │Elapsed Time : 00:01:34 ││ ││ │ └───────────────────────────────────┘└───────────────────┘└─────────────┘ ┌───────────────────────────┤ Activity ├────────────────────────────────┐ │LAW_&_ORDER Tossed to Conf - 16 │ │GUNS Tossed to Conf - 37 │ │RTKBA Tossed to Conf - 10 │ │ASKACOP Tossed to Conf - 28 │ │ASKACOP Tossed to Conf - 28 │ │ASKACOP Tossed to Conf - 28 │ │ASKACOP2 │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ GOMail v2.0v6 Beta (c) 1992-95 City Limits Software AREAS.BBS File The AREAS.BBS file is an ASCII file which you create with either a plain ASCII editor or through the facilities of GOEDIT.EXE. Under OPTIONS there is a choice for AREAS.BBS editor; this is discussed more completely later. AREAS.BBS is the file which tells GOMail which systems to send outgoing mail to and which conference areas to place incoming messages into. Suppose there are four people sending their messages to each other's BBS systems. Then we would have a little network such as the example below. Each node has their own individual number. As you can see below there are four addresses: 1:14/1, 1:281/2, 1:281/10 and 1:281/20. Mail will come in from 1:14/1 (he is the "HUB" and all mail flows through this system). My address is 1:281/2 and I am a hub to my local calling area. Thus, I give 1:281/10 and 1:281/20 mail from 1:14/1. There are some conferences that 281/10 may want that I do not wish to carry on my BBS. If you have an area like this then that is referred to as a PASSTHRU echo. This means that you will pick up the echo for your node but you will not post it for reading on your own BBS system. ------------ | 1:14/1 | ------------ \ \ ------------ \| 1:281/2 | ------------ / \ ------------ / \ ------------ | 1:281/10 |/ \| 1:281/20 | ------------ ------------ The final form of the AREAS.BBS file for this fictitious network might look like this editing: The Software Connection Topeka, KS 8 Gigs # Mike Ortiz 3 TOPEKA 1:14/1 281/10 20 4 HUMOR 1:14/1 281/10 20 5 CATSCAN 1:14/1 281/10 20 6 STTNG 1:14/1 281/10 20 P DOORWARE 1:14/1 281/10 The above is what your AREAS.BBS file should resemble. The first line is the name of your BBS. Although this line is not used by GOMail, it is provided to conform to standard AREAS.BBS file format. Therefore, you could put anything on this line you prefer. Please note that the pound sign (#) is used on that first line to indicate the SysOp of the BBS. The second line refers to the "TOPEKA" echo. This echo will be tossed into Wildcat!'s conference #3. Any mail entered into this conference will also be forwarded to nodes 1:281/10 and 1:281/20 (this is for down link purposes) and also be sent to 1:14/1. While entering the down link node information, you do not have to specify the complete address if it is in the same zone and net as the entry prior to it. Therefore, the two lines below mean the same thing: 3 TOPEKA 1:14/1 281/10 20 3 TOPEKA 1:14/1 1:281/10 1:281/20 GOEDIT.EXE GOEDIT.EXE is the control program for GOMail. GOEDIT creates a file called GOMAIL.DAT, which is read as a configuration file by GOMail. Typing GOEDIT at the DOS prompt while in the GOMAIL subdirectory will initiate the program and produce a screen with the following header. ╒══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ │ Paths Mailer Options Archivers Import / Export File │ ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ In the following selections, each of the choices on the above menu selection bar are explained. We begin with the PATHS option. This, and the other options, are selected by positioning the cursor bar with your arrow keys over the desired option and pressing the [ENTER] key. A mouse can also be used; position your mouse arrow over the desired selection and pres the left mouse button to select the item. Depressing the right mouse button will de-select an item. PATHS MENU SELECTION This section applies to the setup program called GOEDIT.EXE that accompanies GOMail. It creates, as was explained in the previous section, the GOMAIL.DAT file. GOMAIL.DAT is the configuration file read by GOMail when GOMAIL.EXE is started. Selecting the PATHS option on the main selection bar will display the following window. The information displayed on the right side of the window are examples. ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Drive/Path to your BBS Home Dir : C:\WC40\ ║ ║ Where is your Netmail Directory : C:\DB\MESSAGES\ ║ ║ Where is your outbound files dir : C:\DB\QUEUE\ ║ ║ Where is your inbound files directory : C:\WC40\GOMAIL\NEWMAIL\ ║ ║ Where is your BadEcho directory : C:\WC40\GOMAIL\BADMSG\ ║ ║ Where is your DupMsg directory : C:\WC40\GOMAIL\DUPMSG\ ║ ║ Where is your GOMail Work Directory : C:\WC40\GOMAIL\WORK\ ║ ║ ║ ╚═════════════════════════════ Paths To Files ══════════════════════════╝ Drive/Path to your BBS Home directory : For MainLine BBS systems this would be your C:\ML\ directory and for Wildcat! systems this would commonly be your C:\WC40\ directory (or wherever WILDCAT.EXE is stored). Where is your Netmail Directory : This is the subdirectory which your front end uses for holding its netmail messages, such as 1.MSG. In D'Bridge this would commonly be your \DB\MESSAGES\ subdirectory. For Front Door it is \FD\NETMAIL\. Please bear in mind these are just the defaults that the programs use. If you called your subdirectories something else then you need to enter the correct path name. An easy way to find the correct subdirectory is to go to the directory you think it is and type in DIR at the DOS prompt. If you see several files that have numbers with the MSG extension (again, such as 1.MSG), then you found the correct subdirectory. Enter that path here. Where is your outbound files dir : For D'Bridge systems this is your \DB\QUEUE subdirectory that D'Bridge creates by default. GOMail will not send message attachments if you are using D'Bridge. Instead, GOMail will address the outgoing packet in D'Bridge's format, place it in D'Bridge's outbound files subdirectory, and D'Bridge will automatically pick the file up and send it according to your routing. If you are using Front Door then your setup should be like that described in the following paragraph. For Front Door, this is a directory that your front end does not even know about. I suggest that you make a directory called GOATTACH off your mailer directory so that you do not conflict with files that your mailer will need/use. GOMail will maintain this file area and will put files in there and delete them as mail gets sent and processed. Where is your inbound files directory : This is the subdirectory that all your mail goes into when you receive it. For D'Bridge systems this will usually be your \DB\FILES\ subdirectory (default) and for Front Door the default would be \FD\FILES\. Again, if you used something other than the default subdirectory names when installing your mailer, then you will need to specify something different here. Where is your BadEcho directory : This will be a directory where messages for an echo that is not defined in your AREAS.BBS file will be sent until you either (a) define the area or (b) delete the messages. Where is your DupMsg directory : GOMail will copy any message it determines is a duplicate to the DupMsg subdirectory, provided you have selected that option under the MAILER selection on the main selection bar. Duplicates will be discussed later. The purpose of setting up a path is to permit you to review the message and assure that it is in fact a duplicate. Where is your GOMail work directory : This is the complete path to a work subdirectory you would like GOMail to use. This can be just a drive (ex. C:\ or a directory C:\WORK\). Note that a trailing backslash is always required. Should you forget to add the backslash, GOEdit will automatically append the backslash before the program saves the GOMAIL.DAT file. MAILER MENU SELECTION This is perhaps the most comprehensive section of GOEDIT. Here you will enter the various features of your BBS system. There are 25 important items for you to complete. We will examine each one. When you select the MAILER option on the main selection bar, you are presented with the following window. You may use your up and down arrow keys to move vertically within this window. Other choices are shown by arrowing down beneath the last entry shown below. ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ BBS Options ║ BBS Type : WC4.x ▓ ║ Maximum BBS Messages/Conf (MainLine Only) : 50 ░ ║ Notify User of New Messages : Y ░ ║ Netmail Echo Conference : 27 ░ ║ Lock Count : 30 ░ ║ Auto Purge Message Database : N ░ ║ Save SEENBY: lines in BBS : N ░ ║ Max Open Conferences : 5 ░ ║ Allow Crash Netmail from BBS : N ░ ║ Network Type : DOS Share ░ ║ ░ ║ Fidonet Options ░ ║ Your Primary ZONE Number : 1 ░ ║ Your Primary Net Number : 105 ░ ║ Your Primary Node Number : 68 ░ ║ Your Primary Point Number 0=None : 0 ░ ║ ░ ║ Duplicates ╚═════════════════════ (C) City Limits Software ═════════ PgDn More ╝ BBS Type At this time GOMail only supports two BBS types, MainLine and Wildcat! (version 4.xx for this version of GOMail). If there is sufficient demand, other bulletin board software packages will be considered. When used with version 4.xx of Wildcat! you should see the default value of WC.4x here. Maximum BBS Messages/Conf (MainLine Only) This option is for MailLine systems only. It tells GOMail how many messages it should keep per conference. Ignore this entry if you are not running MainLine. It has no application to a Wildcat! system. Notify User of New Messages This option will almost always be enabled (the Y selection). GOMail will toss faster if this is turned off (the N selection) but it would not let you or your users know that there is mail waiting for you or them during the log-in sequence. The only time this would be set to N would be if your BBS had only Read- Only message conferences (a rather unlikely BBS). Netmail Echo Conference This is the conference number of your netmail conference. It must be the same number that you have designated in MAKEWILD as the netmail conference. You should have only one netmail conference. In most cases, only you, the SysOp, will have access to it, unless you are allowing your users to send netmail. GOMail will send netmail out either in normal or crash mode. Lock Count This is the maximum number of messages that may be imported into the BBS during a single lock setting while tossing. GOMail will lock the BBS database and not unlock it until GOMail either (a) changes conferences during the tossing or (b) the number of messages tossed into the current conference exceeds the value specified here. Generally you will not have to worry about this number, since messages within a packet vary so much. But should you find your BBS system locking a conference too long while GOMail is tossing into it, then decrease this number to suit your needs. Auto Purge Message Database This option will make GOMail run a little slower but it will maintain your duplicate database at the predefined size set in MAKEWILD. If this option is turned off then your MSG*.DAT message database can be larger than defined, until a GOMail PURGE is run manually to resize the MSG*.DAT files. At the present time, this function is inoperative. However, you should make a decision about this setting, so that when the program is upgraded you will not have to make further changes. We recommend that you set this to N unless you are short on disk space. Then run GOMAIL PURGE as an event in D'Bridge or as part of your nightly maintenance routine. Again, this function is inoperative at the time of this writing. Save Seenby Lines in BBS This option will allow you to have the conference TAG of echomail messages as well as the message SEENBY lines imported into your BBS message so that you may track duplicates or a message's path. We recommend that you set this option to N unless you are having problems with your echomail. Max Open Conferences This number is the maximum number of conferences allowed to be open at one time during the tossing operation. This allows GOMail to open several message databases at a time. With the right setting you will not need to sort the packet to get the maximum speed anymore. Think in terms of file handles. The correct value here is determined by the following equation experiment. This maximum value is also a function of available RAM, processor speed, operating system (viz., OS/2, DESQview or straight DOS), etc. Too large a value will ultimately slow things down for your particular hardware configuration. You need to reserve 20 of the file handles for DOS functions and then you will need 2 file handles for each conference you want to have open. Therefore, assuming you had FILES=40 in your CONFIG.SYS file, 40-20 = 20 and 20/2 = 10. That means 10 would be what you want to put here. GOMail will check if you go over the bounds and, if you do, when it runs it will write in the log that you have that value set to high. Allow Crash Netmail from BBS This option allows you to specify if any caller to your BBS may send crash netmail from within the BBS. If this option is set to NO then no crash mail will be allowed. If it is set to YES then anyone with netmail access may make your system send out a netmail message immediately, even during the most expensive telephone calling periods. We urge you to carefully consider the ramifications of this and to use Echo Routed Netmail in your mailer for transmitting messages your users enter in your netmail message area. Network Type Press the space bar until your network type appears. If you are running a single line system then choose the SINGLE LINE option. If you are running under any version of Novell (except Novell Lite) then you should pick NOVELL. All other network types, including Novell Lite, will use DOS SHARE. Your Primary Zone Number Enter your primary zone number here. This will be the zone of your default address (such as 1 for Zone 1). You may have alias addresses as well, but they will not be entered in this area and should be entered in the Alias screen instead. Your Primary Net Number Enter your primary net number here. This will be the Net of your default address, such as 83. As with zone numbers, you may have alias addresses too but they will not be entered in this area and should be entered in the Alias screen instead. Your Primary Node Number Enter your Primary Node number here. This will be the Node of your default address. As with zone numbers, you may have alias addresses too but they will not be entered in this area and should be entered in the Alias screen instead. Your Primary Point Number Enter your Primary Point number here. This will be the Point of your default address. As with zone numbers, you may have alias addresses too but they will not be entered in this area and should be entered in the Alias screen instead. In most cases this number will be 0 unless you are already a point off of an existing node. Below this last entry (point number) are the following additional options you should review and complete. ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Your Primary ZONE Number : 1 ║ Your Primary Net Number : 105 ░ ║ Your Primary Node Number : 68 ░ ║ Your Primary Point Number 0=None : 0 ░ ║ ░ ║ Duplicates ░ ║ Auto Purge Duplicate Database : Y ░ ║ Maximum Number of Dups in Dup Database : 5000 ░ ║ Save Dups in .MSG format : N ░ ║ ░ ║ Forwarding ░ ║ Forward packets not destined to this address : N ░ ║ Maximum Number of Messages per Packet : 5 ░ ║ Default Archive Type : ZIP ░ ║ Create .MSG file for NetMail : N ░ ║ Mailer Type : DBridge ░ ║ Kill Empty (Null) messages : Y ▓ ║ Maximum K-Bytes in Outbound Archive : 0 ░ ║ Add Unknown Confs as : NONE ╚═════════════════════ (C) City Limits Software ═════════ PgDn More ╝ Auto Purge Message Database This option will make GOMail run a little slower but it will maintain your duplicate database at the predefined size set in MAKEWILD. If this option is turned off then your MSG*.DAT message database can be larger than defined, until a GOMail PURGE is run manually to resize the MSG*.DAT files. At the present time, this function is inoperative. However, you should make a decision about this setting, so that when the program is upgraded you will not have to make further changes. We recommend that you set this to N unless you are short on disk space. Then run GOMAIL PURGE as an event in D'Bridge or as part of your nightly maintenance routine. Again, this function is inoperative at the time of this writing. Maximum Number of Dups in Dup Database This is the maximum the duplicates database (the files DUPMAIL.DAT and DUPMAIL.IX) should get. If Auto Purge Dup database is turned off then this can get larger than that, and continue to grow until a GOMAIL DR is run from the command line (or batch file). An average setting for this is 1000 for every 5000 messages tossed in per week. If, for example, your system was tossing 20,000 messages per week, you'd set this to 4,000. Save Dups in *.MSG Format If this option is set to Y then GOMail will save any message it feels is a duplicate in *.MSG format in the designated duplicate message subdirectory. This is to allow you to review any messages considered duplicates for yourself to make sure they are in fact duplicate messages. This option is really meant for debugging. It will allow you to save any messages that GOMAIL thinks is a duplicate into the DUPMSG directory in FIDO MSG format. If this option is turned on (with a Y setting) then you will want to watch the DUPMSG directory closely because it can slow down GOMail if it gets too large. Forward packets not destined to this address If this option is set to Y then GOMail will forward any packets that are not addressed to you and forward them on to who there are defined to. You may or may not wish to implement this option. Consider the following scenario: another party delivers some echomail to you and it is not addressed to your primary node or to any of your alias addresses. If you set this option to Y then those messages would be forwarded on to the node (which could be a long distance call!). If you have this option set to N then the messages get vaporized. We recommend setting this to N. Maximum Number of Messages per Packet This is the maximum number of messages you want in one packet before GOMail initiates a new packet. We recommend that you limit this number to 1000, since some tossers cannot handle packets with more than 1000 messages in them. Default Archive Type Enter your default archive type here. If you specify ZIP then a=l=l of your outgoing mail will be compressed using PKZIP, unless you have a particular node setup with an Archiver override. This is the preferred method. Make certain that the party to whom you are sending your packets understands the archive format you will be using. While ARC is the "standard" in Fidonet, ZIP will result is significantly smaller packets (better compression) and reduce transmission times. This latter consideration is particularly important if your are sending packets via a long distance call. We have no interest in engaging in "archiver wars" but would be remiss if we failed to point out that ARC results in much larger packets and extended transmission times. That is important if you call long distance to get your mail. Create .MSG file for Netmail This option allows you to have any messages that are sent to you via netmail to not only be tossed into your BBS' Netmail Conference but to also be placed into your frontend mailer. If you reply to netmail messages in your frontend then you will want this option set to Y. Mailer Type Press the space bar until your type of mailer appears. At the present time, the only mailer types fully tested with GOMail are D'Bridge and Frontdoor. If you are running a Binkley system it is possible to use GOMail successfully, because many have done so. However, the authors have never personally tested GOMail with Binkley. If you would be willing to tell us what we need to do then we will probably be able to make GOMail work effortlessly with Binkley. Please contact us by netmail if you wish to pursue this experiment with Binkley. Kill Empty (Null) messages If this option is set to Y then any empty messages that you receive will be deleted. This is the recommended setting. Maximum K-Bytes in Outbound Archive This option allows you to limit how large GOMail will make the outbound archive before creating a new file name. Note: D'Bridge systems should have this option set to 0, since D'Bridge can only have one file in the queue directory addressed to a particular system. In most cases this will be set to 0 because it is faster to send one 800k packet rather than four 200k packets. Add Unknown Confs as Pressing the space bar will permit you to cycle through the following choices: NONE, PASSTHRU, NEXT CONF, VAPORIZE. These choices determine how GOMail will treat messages it receives which do not belong in any of the existing conferences listed in the AREAS.BBS file. This is an important section for those users receiving packets via Planet Connect or other nontraditional ways. NONE The None option simply tells GOEDIT to not automatically add conferences as messages from such conferences arrive. That requires you, the SysOp, to manually add the conferences to the AREAS.BBS file for processing by GOMail. Messages which arrive and do not have a conference designated for them in AREAS.BBS will appear in the \GOMAIL\BADMSG subdirectory. PASSTHRU If you are serving as a hub, there is little likelihood that you will want to carry on your hard disk all of the echos that you are sending to your downlinks on your BBS. PASSTHRU by definition means that messages in a given conference are coming in from your hub, and "pass through" your node to your downlinks. By setting this option to PASSTHRU, all new conferences found in an inbound packet will be tagged as PASSTHRU. NEXTCONF This option is used for testing only and should not be used during normal operation. When conferences are found in an inbound packet that are unknown to your system, and this option is set to NEXTCONF, GOMail will automatically assign the conference to the highest number conference found in your AREAS.BBS + 1. If this option was set during normal operation, there is a potential for echos to be tossed into areas that are defined in your BBS as local message areas. VAPORIZE This option is for SysOps who are getting messages from a satellite service, such as Planet Connect. With these types of services, a SysOp has no choice as to which conferences are coming to him. If this option is set to Vaporize, all conferences found in an inbound packet that are unknown to your system, will be tagged as VAPORIZE. Thereafter, when a message comes to your system in one of the Vaporize conferences, the message will not be saved on your system or forwarded to any other systems. Hence the term "Vaporized." OPTIONS MENU SELECTION There are several choices under OPTIONS on the main selection bar for GOEDIT.EXE. These are: ╒═══════════════════╕ │ Edit Conference │ │ Default Origin │ │ Alias Addresses │ │ Archive Override │ │ AREAS.BBS Editor │ │ Import FIDONET.NA │ ╘═══════════════════╛ Each of these choices will be discussed in turn. Edit Conference When this option is selected you will be presented with all of your echo conferences that are in your AREAS.BBS file. Here is an example of what that display might look like: ╒════════════════════ GO Mail Conference Setup ══════════════════════╕ │ Conf Conference Name Description │ │────── ───────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────│ │ 23 AIRGUN Airgunners' Information Exchange │ │ 54 ALT.LOCKSMITHING Discussions about locksmithing. │ │ 28 ASKACOP Ask Law enforcement professionals about│ │ 8 ASKACOP2 ASKACOP2 │ │ 35 ASK_A_NURSE Ask nurses and others about your health│ │ 34 CELLULAR Cellular Telephone Discussions │ │ 15 DBRIDGE D'Bridge Support Echo │ │ 9 FIREARMS Firearms TECHNICAL (NO POLITICS) DISCUS│ │ 37 GUNS Guns and Defence Weaponry │ │ 24 HISTORY International History Echo │ │ 44 HOME_REPAIR Home Repairs Echo │ │ 52 INTERNET For discussion of the Internet from a u│ │ 5 JOBS Employment and Job Conference │ │ 16 LAW_&_ORDER Law Enforcement Issues │ │ 12 LEGAL_LAW LEGAL_LAW Conference │ │ 38 MILHISTORY Military History │ │ 49 MISC.ACTIVISM.MILITIA │ ╘════════════════ (C)opyright 1992 City Limits Software ══════════════╛ Note: if you are running GOEdit for the first time, this option will not function. GOMail will create the conference databases the first time that it is run and will make any modifications any time you modify the AREAS.BBS file. All changes are made directly to the AREAS.BBS file. GOCONF.DAT and GOCONF.IX are the database files which GOMail maintains as its real AREAS.BBS file internally. This is to allow you maximum flexibility, no limit on conferences available, and low memory overhead. You can highlight the conference that you wish to view and press ENTER on it. You will then be able to change the default origin line for that particular conference. Here is an example of how that will appear using the AIRGUN conference example above. ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Conference Tag AIRGUN ║ ║ Conference Type 0 ║ ║ Conference Number 23 ║ ║ MsgPath ║ ║ Origin Line Combat Arms BBS - Portland, OR - (503) 221-1777 ║ ║ ║ ║ 1:105/50 ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢ ║ F2 PICK F10 DONE ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ The cursor will appear on the conference number (23 in this example). Pressing the F2 key will display your listing of conferences in MAKEWILD and will look something like the following example. ╔════════════════════════ Wildcat v4.0 Conferences ═════════════════════╗ ║ Conf Description Conf Description ║ ───── ───────────────────────────── ───── ───────────────────────── ▓ ║ 1 Local Firearms Messages 2 Gun Law & Legal Issues ░ ║ 3 BBS Usage Messages 4 NASA Space Science ░ ║ 5 Jobs Fido Echo 6 Rec.pets.dogs ░ ║ 7 Level 50/100 Users 8 AskaACop2 Fido Echo ░ ║ 9 Firearms Fido Echo 10 Right to Keep & Bear Arms ░ ║ 11 Wildcat Fido Echo 12 Legal/Law Fido Echo ░ ║ 13 United We Stand America 14 Oregon Weather ░ ║ 15 D'Bridge Fido Echo 16 Law & Order Fido Echo ░ ║ 17 Rec.gambling 18 Net 105 messages ░ ║ 19 Alt.bbs.wildcat 20 Gen'l Messages to Clients ░ ║ 21 Info.firearms.politics 22 Terrorism ░ ║ 23 Airgun related Fido echo 24 History Fido Echo ░ ║ 25 Rec.guns 26 Radio Scanner Fido Echo ░ ║ 27 Netmail (Fido & Internet) 28 AskACop Fido Echo (2nd) ░ ║ ╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢ ║ ENTER Select ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Cursor down until you see the selected conference number (23 in this example) and press the ENTER key. GOEDIT will respond by displaying the following and permit you to change the existing description in MAKEWILD with the description contained in the FIDONET.NA file. ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Conference Tag AIRGUN ║ ║ Conference Type 0 ║ ║ Confrerence Number 23 ║ ║ MsgPath ║ ║ Origin Line Combat Arms BBS - Portland, OR - (503) 221-1777 ║ ║ ║ ║ 1:105/50 ║ ║ ╔════════════Update BBS Conference Name═════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ Airgunners' Information Exchange ║ ║ ║ ╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────╢ ║ ║ ║ <ESC> NO CHANGE F10 UPDATE ║ ║ ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢ ║ F2 PICK F10 DONE ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ When I press the F10 function key, in this example, I changed the conference description in MAKEWILD from "Airgun related Fido echo" to "Airgunners' Information Exchange." Another thing I could have done was to simply edit the line presented to me and changed the "Airgunners' Information Exchange" line to something else entirely. Then pressing the F10 key would save that description in MAKEWILD. Thus, you are empowered here with the ability to change the conference descriptions in MAKEWILD without having to actually run MAKEWILD to accomplish that task! CHANGING THE CONFERENCE'S ORIGIN LINE You have the ability to change your default origin line on a per-conference level if you wish. Changing it here will only change it for t=h=a=t particular conference. If you modify your AREAS.BBS file then you will need to re-enter custom origin lines in here, since changing your AREAS.BBS file will cause the database to be rebuilt and any changes would then be lost. For that reason, if you are repeatedly adding or dropping conferences, we encourage you to use the same default origin line for each conference, as is shown in the example. However, if you seldom/never change your AREAS.BBS file, then you will not have to make many revisions. The choice is yours. This option will be used to make a special origin line for a particular conference. To save it after changing it, simply press the ESCape key. That will save it and return you to the list of all conferences. Please note that GOEDIT re-creates a new AREAS.BBS from this procedure. It will strip all comment lines (those preceded with a semicolon) and place the conferences in the new AREAS.BBS in conference order. The AREAS.BBS file is automatically re-created because there is a likelihood that the conference number was changed. Default Origin Here is an example of the display. Note that you may have up to 20 zones with default origin lines. ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ZONE Default Origin Line ║ 1) 1 Combat Arms BBS - Portland, OR - (503) 221-1777 ▓ ║ 2) 0 ░ ║ 3) 0 ░ ║ 4) 0 ░ ║ 5) 0 ░ ║ 6) 0 ░ ║ 7) 0 ░ ║ 8) 0 ░ ║ 9) 0 ░ ║10) 0 ░ ║11) 0 ░ ║12) 0 ╚════════════════════ (C) City Limits Software ════════════════════╝ This choice is provided so that you may tell GOMail what origin line you want to use for each of your zones. GOMail will put in your alias or primary address so you do not need to put that in the text. You will start by just entering the zone number of your alias or primary zone and then press return and you will be prompted to enter the Text that you wish to have on the bottom of every message that is created on your system and sent out over the network. You can have up to 20 alias addresses. If you need more zones, please should contact the authors of GOMail. Zone number for your Default Origin Line Enter your Zones that you support in this column. If you are in several zones then you will have a default origin line for every possible zone you can send mail to. If you are in Fido and you send mail to zone 2 then you will still have to define zone 2 even though it is still in Fido. You may specify set each origin line on a per conference level if you wish by going to "Edit Conferences." Default Origin Line Text Enter the text associated with the zone at the left. DO NOT put your address in any of the TEXT GOMail will automatically put your address in the origin line. If it does not find an alias associated with the zone then it will use your primary address to tack in the origin line. you are limited to 65 characters. Alias Addresses Sub-Menu Selection Selecting Alias Addresses from the drop down OPTIONS menu will display the following screen: ╔════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Zone Net Node Point ║ ║ 1) 0 0 0 0 ( 1 ║ ║ 2) 0 0 0 0 ( 2 ║ ║ 3) 0 0 0 0 ( 3 ║ ║ 4) 0 0 0 0 ( 4 ║ ║ 5) 0 0 0 0 ( 5 ║ ║ 6) 0 0 0 0 ( 6 ║ ║ 7) 0 0 0 0 ( 7 ║ ║ 8) 0 0 0 0 ( 8 ║ ║ 9) 0 0 0 0 ( 9 ║ ║ 10) 0 0 0 0 (10 ║ ╚══ Enter your Alias Addresses ══╝ Enter all of your alias addresses in this menu selection. You will start by entering your ZONE then press the ENTER key, then enter your NET, press the ENTER key, your NODE number then press the ENTER key and then your POINT number and press the ENTER key. If you are unsure about your point number or do not have one then enter a 0 (Zero) for the point number. Alias Zone If 1:281/2.0 is an address, then 1 would be the zone position. Enter the Zone Number of one of your alias addresses here. A example of a Zone address would be 1 for Fido Net. You may have up to 20 alias addresses. Alias Net If 1:281/2.0 is an address, then 281 would be the net number. Enter the net number of one of your alias addresses here. You may have up to 20 alias addresses. Alias Node If 1:281/2.0 is an address, then 2 would be the node number. Enter the node number of one of your alias addresses here. You may have up to 20 alias addresses. Alias Point If 1:281/2.0 is an address, then 0 would be the point number. Enter the point number of one of your alias addresses here. You may have up to 20 alias addresses. Points will be 0 if you are unsure what to put here. Archive Overrides Sub-Menu Selection When you select Archive Override from the drop down OPTIONS menu you will see the following screen: ╔══════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Zone Net Node Point ║ ║ 1) 0 0 0 0 ZIP ( 1 ║ ║ 2) 0 0 0 0 ZIP ( 2 ║ ║ 3) 0 0 0 0 ZIP ( 3 ║ ║ 4) 0 0 0 0 ZIP ( 4 ║ ║ 5) 0 0 0 0 ZIP ( 5 ║ ║ 6) 0 0 0 0 ZIP ( 6 ║ ║ 7) 0 0 0 0 ZIP ( 7 ║ ║ 8) 0 0 0 0 ZIP ( 8 ║ ║ 9) 0 0 0 0 ZIP ( 9 ║ ║ 10) 0 0 0 0 ZIP (10 ║ ║ 11) 0 0 0 0 ZIP (11 ║ ╚═════ Enter your Alias Addresses ═════╝ This menu selection is provided to allow you to pack mail using different archive formats for different nodes. You will select your default mail archive type in the mailer options. If you need to send mail to a node using a different type of archiver than your default, you may enter their address in this area and GOMail will pack up the mail using the defined archive type for that node. Zone Archive Override Enter the zone number of the address you wish to compress differently from the default. If you have defined that you want to use ZIP as your default mail compression type, but there is a particular Zone that you send mail to that cannot handle ZIP and must get PAK, you would enter their zone address here and then at the end enter the type of mail they are to receive. Net Archive Override Enter the net number of the address for whom you wish to compress differently. If you have determined that you want to use ZIP as your default mail compression type, but there is a particular node that you send mail to that cannot handle ZIP and must get, for example, PAK, then you would enter their net number in this spot and then at the end enter the type of archiver to use for their mail. Node Archive Override Enter the node number of the address you wish to compress differently. If you have defined that you want to use ZIP as your default mail compression type, but there is a particular node that you send mail to that cannot handle ZIP and must get PAK then you would enter their node number in this spot and then at the end enter the type of Mail they are to receive. Point Archive Override Enter the point number of the address you wish to compress differently. If you have defined that you want to use ZIP as your default mail compression type, but there is a particular node that you send mail to that cannot handle ZIP and must get PAK then you would enter their point number in this spot and then at the end enter the type of Mail they are to receive. Compression Type Archive Override Enter the archive format you wish to send to the address you specified in the previous fields. Use the space bar to advance to the next available selection. AREAS.BBS Editor Sub-Menu Selection The AREAS.BBS Editor provides you with a very convenient way to edit your AREAS.BBS ASCII file from within GOEdit. Activating it will provide you with a view of your AREAS.BBS file, which should look something like this: Line: 1 Column: 1 2% Insert: On Indent: On Word wrap: Off SAVE ╒═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ │4 SB-E/N/L 1:105/50 │ │4 SB-NASA_NEWS 1:105/50 │ │4 SB-NASA_TECH 1:105/50 │ │4 SB-WORLD_NWS 1:105/50 │ │5 JOBS 1:105/50 │ │8 ASKACOP2 1:105/50 │ │9 FIREARMS 1:105/50 │ │10 RTKBA 1:105/50 │ │11 WILDCAT 1:105/50 │ │12 LEGAL_LAW 1:105/50 │ │13 UWSA 1:105/50 │ │14 WEATHER 1:105/50 │ │15 DBRIDGE 1:105/50 │ │16 LAW_&_ORDER 1:105/50 │ │17 REC.GAMBLING 1:105/60 │ │18 NET105 1:105/69 │ │18 NET-105 1:105/50 │ │23 AIRGUN 1:105/50 │ │24 HISTORY 1:105/50 │ │26 SCANRADIO 1:105/50 │ │28 ASKACOP 1:105/50 │ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ F1 - Help F10 - Save and Exit F9 - Abort and Exit The editor uses WordStar (TM) commands for editing and will allow you to insert and delete lines, change the text in any way, manipulate blocks of text, etc. Pressing the F1 function key will overlay the following help screen on the editor. ╒══════════════ GOMail AREAS.BBS Editor Help ═══════════════╕ │ │ │ │ │ GOEDIT uses Wordstar commands for editing │ │ SAVE and EXIT │ Ctrl-K X or F10 │ │ ABORT and EXIT │ Ctrl-K Q or F9 │ │ Word left │ Ctrl-A or Ctrl-Left arrow │ │ Word right │ Ctrl-F or Ctrl-Right arrow │ │ Insert mode on/off │ Ctrl-V or Ins │ │ Insert line │ Ctrl-N │ │ Delete line │ Ctrl-Y │ │ Delete to end of line│ Ctrl-Q Y │ │ Find │ Ctrl-Q F │ │ Find & replace │ Ctrl-Q A │ │ Mark block begin │ Ctrl-K B │ │ Mark block end │ Ctrl-K K │ │ Copy block │ Ctrl-K C │ │ Move block │ Ctrl-K V │ │ Delete block │ Ctrl-K Y │ │ Read block from disk │ Ctrl-K R │ │ Write block to disk │ Ctrl-K W │ │ │ ╘══════════════ Press any key to continue.... ══════════════╛ Placing a semi-colon (;) at the start of any line in the AREAS.BBS file has the effect of "rem'ing" out that line. Any line starting with a semi-colon will be ignored by GOMail during its processing phases. Again, please note that these comment lines are automatically removed when you use the Edit Conference feature and GOEDIT re-creates the AREAS.BBS file, as described earlier in this document. Import FIDONET.NA section Sub-Menu Selection GOMail is furnished with a copy of FIDONET.NA and FIDONET.NO. The FIDONET.NA file contains a listing of Fidonet Echo conferences and a short description of each of them. The beginning of the file looks something like this: !CHINESE General topic chatting in Chinese 10TH_AMD 10th Amendment, right and powers of the 12_STEPS 12 Steps Discussion 4DOS 4DOS ECHO 4DOS_TC 4DOS and Take Command Support Conference/Echo 60S_70S_PROGROCK 60's/70's Progressive Rock Music Echo 80XXX Assembly language programming (Intel CPUs ABLED disABLED Users Information Exchange. ABLED_ATHLETE Abled Athletes The FIDONET.NO file lists echo conferences which are not (seemingly) operational. Here is an example of the contents of FIDONET.NO AMIGA_LC (not in EchoList since 3/1/95) AMIGA_PDREVIEW (not in EchoList since 3/1/95) ASTRONOMY (not in EchoList since 3/1/95) EDUCATOR (not in EchoList since 3/1/95) HOMEPOWR (not in EchoList since 3/1/95) HOMESCHL (not in EchoList since 3/1/95) LATINO (not in EchoList since 2/1/95) LV_GAMBLER (not in EchoList since 3/1/95) When you first begin using GOMail, and have completed your AREAS.BBS file and otherwise set up GOMail, you need to let GOMail create its GOCONF.* files. This is easily done by exiting GOEdit (use the "Save Config" option under the FILE choice on the menu bar) and type GOMAIL SYNC at the DOS prompt. This will allow GOMail to create the GOCONF.DAT and GOCONF.IX files on its own, as well as set the last tossed pointers so that you don't export your entire message database to your hub. Once you have run GOMAIL SYNC successfully, re-enter GOEdit by typing GOEDIT at the DOS prompt. Then select Options on the menu bar and choose Import FIDONET.NA. That will cause the following screen to be temporarily overlaid: ╒═══════════════ Importing FIDONET.NA═══════════════╕ │ 12% │ │ █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ ╘═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ The progress monitor will tell you how much has been imported. Faster computers do this in less time. Once completed, choose Edit Conference on the pull down menu and you will see that GOEdit has inserted conference descriptions. GOEdit will maintain these descriptions in a database, so that in the future, any echomail conferences that are added to your AREAS.BBS file will have a description. This feature is extremely helpful when you are an EchoMail HUB, or are using a FIDONET Satellite service, such as Planet Connect (TM), and are adding new conferences as Vaporize, or Passthru. After conferences are added to your AREAS.BBS file, by GOMail, you will be able to view the description for the new conference to determine if you wish to add this conference to the BBS. ARCHIVERS MENU SELECTION When you press the ENTER key (or click the mouse) on the Archivers selection on the menu bar, the following screen appears (with the settings appropriate to your system). ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ZIP Compression \PKZIP\PKZIP.EXE -M ║ ║ZIP De-Compression \PKZIP\PKUNZIP.EXE -O ║ ║ARJ Compression \PKZIP\ARJ.EXE M -A ║ ║ARJ De-Compression \PKZIP\ARJ.EXE E -Y ║ ║ARC Compression \PKZIP\PKPAK.EXE A -M ║ ║ARC De-Compression \PKZIP\PKUNPAK.EXE -RX ║ ║PAK Compression \PKZIP\PAK.EXE M ║ ║PAK De-Compression \PKZIP\PAK.EXE E /WA ║ ║LHA & LZH Compression \PKZIP\LHA.EXE A M ║ ║LHA & LZH De-Compression \PKZIP\LHA.EXE E /M ║ ║Zoo Compression \PKZIP\PKZIP.EXE -M ║ ║Zoo De-Compression \PKZIP\PKUNZIP.EXE -O ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╚═════════════════ Please Define your Archivers ══════════════════╝ The archivers definition is important to GOMail's operation. If the archivers are not set up correctly then GOMail will simply not run correctly. If you have one type of archiver not defined then GOMail will not be able to unpack mail if you receive mail of that type. All of the archivers should use the default parameters which you will see when you enter the archivers area. Simply change the path for the archiver's definition. Each of these fields will be filled in automatically by GOEdit when the archivers menu selection is chosen from the main menu. This field will only be filled in if it is blank. The field starts out being blank the first time GOEdit is run. If you wish to make GOEdit search the path again and fill in the information correctly, then you must blank the field by hitting Ctrl+Y on the field, close the archiver window and, finally, reopen it. You can override the selection that GOEdit puts here by just typing over it and inserting what you prefer. Note: Do not change the parameters that are appended to the end, since these are very important to GOMail's operation. ZIP Compression Utility Place the Drive\Path\Filename of your ZIP compression utility where your PKZIP.EXE file resides. GOEdit will verify that the program exists where you have specified when you exit GOEdit. Any needed parameters should be placed after the filename. You want to use the options that will move the files while they're being compressed. In PKZIP this would be -M. ZIP De-Compression Utility Place the Drive\Path\Filename of your ZIP decompression utility where your PKUNZIP.EXE file resides. GOEdit will verify that the program exists where you have specified when you exit. You should specify the option to Overwrite if the same filename exists to prevent PKUNZIP from asking the question Overwrite (Y/N)? The option for PKUNZIP to overwrite without asking is -O. ARJ Compression Utility Place the Drive\Path\Filename of your ARJ compression utility where your ARJ.EXE file resides. GOEdit will verify that the program exists where you have specified when you exit. The parameters should be placed after the filename. You want to use the options that will move the files while they're being compressed. In ARJ this would be M. ARJ De-Compression Utility Place the Drive\Path\Filename of your ARJ decompression utility this will most likely be where your ARJ.EXE file resides. GOEdit will verify that the program exists where you have specified when you exit. You should specify and option to Overwrite if the same filename exists this will prevent ARJ from asking the question Overwrite (Y/N) ? The Option for ARJ to overwrite without asking is -U -Y. ARC Compression Utility Place the Drive\Path\Filename of your ARC compression utility where your PKPAK.EXE file resides. GOEdit will verify that the program exists where you have specified when you exit. The parameters should be placed after the filename. You want to use the options that will move the files while they're being compressed. In PKPAK this would be -M. ARC De-Compression Utility Place the Drive\Path\Filename of your ARC decompression utility. If you use PKUNPAK.EXE, this will be where your PKUNPAK.EXE file resides. GOEdit will verify that the program exists where you have specified when you exit GOEDIT. You should specify the option to Overwrite if the same filename exists this will prevent PKUNPAK from asking the question Overwrite (Y/N)? The Option for PKUNPAK to overwrite without asking is -RX. PAK Compression Utility Place the Drive\Path\Filename of your PAK compression utility and where your PAK.EXE file resides. GOEdit will verify that the program exists where you have specified when you exit. The parameters should be placed after the filename. You want to use the options that will move the files while they are being compressed. In PAK this would be /M. PAK De-Compression Utility Place the Drive\Path\Filename of your ARC decompression utility. If you are using PKUNPAK, this will be where your PKUNPAK.EXE file resides. GOEdit will verify that the program exists where you have specified when you exit. You should specify an option to Overwrite if the same filename exists to prevent PAK from asking the question Overwrite (Y/N)? The Option for PKPAK to overwrite without asking is /WA. LHA & LZH Compression Utility Place the Drive\Path\Filename of your LHA & LZH compression utility where your LHA.EXE file resides. GOEdit will verify that the program exists where you have specified when you exit. The parameters should be placed after the filename. You want to use the options that will move the files while they're being compressed. In LHA this would be /M. LHA & LZH De-Compression Utility Place the Drive\Path\Filename of your LHA & LZH decompression utility. Generally, this will be where your LHA.EXE file resides. GOEdit will verify that the program exists where you have specified when you exit. You should specify an option to Overwrite if the same filename exists to prevent LHA from asking the question Overwrite (Y/N)? The E /M options for LHA.EXE permit the overwrite. ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION If there is an archiver which you choose not to use (such as the ZOO archiver) you simply place the commands for an existing archiver program in it place. Please note that if you do this and you later receive a mail packet archived with such a program, it will, of course, not be unarchived. As an example of this alternative to getting the correct archiver program, we have listed the use of PKZIP/PKUNZIP for the ZOO archiver in the screen display earlier given. A better solution is to obtain all the needed archiver programs. IMPORT/EXPORT MENU SELECTION Pressing the ENTER key or clicking the mouse on the Import/Export selection on the menu bar will display: ╒══════════════════════╕ │ Import Configuration │ │ Export Configuration │ ╘══════════════════════╛ This import/export feature is provided to allow easy upgrading from one version of GOMAIL to the next. In the past, when new versions of programs were released you either had to run a conversion program or re-type the information into GOEdit. The Export option will allow you to export your configuration from a=n=y version of GOMail and import it into another version. When you export your file you may call it anything that you wish, provided it is a valid DOS file name. You may also specify a drive and directory if you wish. If you do not specify the drive and directory then the file will be created in the current (default) directory. Always export your configuration and save it in a safe place, against the outside chance your GOMAIL.DAT file should become corrupted for some reason. You are thereby reassured that you will not have to re-key the information into GOEdit. The Import option works in much the same fashion. It will ask you for a file name to import. Once again you may enter the complete drive and directory or use the default values of the current drive and directory. FILE MENU SELECTION Pressing the ENTER key or clicking the mouse on the File selection on the menu bar will display: ╒═════════════════╕ │ Save Config │ │ Shell to Dos │ │ Exit (No Save) │ ╘═════════════════╛ Save Config The Save Config option will allow you to save the current configuration into a non-readable binary file. You cannot see or edit the information in this type of file, but it is excellent for configuration programs because it takes only one pass to read in the data. ASCII configuration files require a read instruction for each line. The filename will always be called GOMAIL.DAT. Shell to DOS This option simply permits you to shell out to DOS to attend to whichever functions you prefer. Type EXIT to return to the GOEDIT program. Exit (No Save) The Exit (No Save) option will allow you to abandon any changes and to exit the configuration program. If you choose this option then nothing is changed. GOMail will auto-match zones for you, meaning that if you are in multiple zones then you do not have to do anything except your zone alias in GOEdit. If a message is entered in your secondary zone conference, GOMail will then automatically forward it to the different net/zone. GOMail looks in the alias addresses and tries to find a match for the same zone. If a match is found, GOMail uses the first address that matches and uses it in the ORIGIN line, the SEENBY and the path lines. GOMail will be further enhanced in this area in future releases. GOMail COMMANDS GOMail commands are listed below and may be entered in any order or in combination with other commands. For example, GOMAIL TOSS SCAN TOSS: Toss all mail packets found in the inbound path into the BBS Message Databases SCAN: Scan all BBS Message Databases for new mail; if found export messages into FIDO mail packets. DR: Duplicate Database Rebuild. This option rebuilds, and re- sizes the duplicate database to the size specified in GOEdit, as the Maximum Duplicates to retain PURGE: Purge BBS messages, in each conference, until the number of messages remaining equals the number specified as the maximum number of messages to keep in each conference. NOWIN: Execute GOMail without status windows. DIAG: Causes GOMail to not redirect the output of the archive, and de-archive process to NUL. SYNC: Resets the GOMAIL.MPF file to reflect the highest message in each of the conferences listed in your AREAS.BBS File. This command "initializes" GOMail for the first time or resets the high message pointers in the event something gets messed up. NOCLEAN: Do not scan and clean the outbound directory. NOECHO: Do not process any newly arrived echomail messages. Instead, let them build up in inbound directory so that netmail may be processed. The echomail tossing will be saved for an event set in either D'Bridge or whichever frontend you are using. INDEX Alternative solution ZOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Archive Overrides Sub Menu Selection Compression Type Archive Override . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Net Archive Override. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Node Archive Override . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Point Archive Override. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Zone Archive Override . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 ARCHIVERS MENU SELECTION ARC Compression Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 ARC De-Compression Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 ARJ Compression Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 ARJ De-Compression Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 LHA & LZH Compression Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 LHA & LZH De-Compression Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 PAK Compression Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 PAK De-Compression Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 ZIP Compression Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 ZIP De-Compression Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 AREAS.BBS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8, 12, 22, 24, 25 BadEcho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 BBS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 5, 8, 11, 13-16, 19 Create .MSG file for Netmail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 D'Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20 DIAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 DR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 DupMsg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Echomail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-7, 15, 18 Edit Conference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Exit (No Save) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Export Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 FIDONET.NA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 32 FIDONET.NO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 FILE MENU SELECTION Exit (No Save). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Save Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Shell to DOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Front Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7, 11, 12 Front end. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7, 11, 12, 19 GOEDIT.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 10-13, 22, 34-36, 38-40 GOMail commands DIAG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 DR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 40 NOCLEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 NOECHO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 NOWIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 PURGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15, 17, 18, 40 SCAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 SYNC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 40 TOSS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 GOMail work directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Hub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5, 6, 8 Import Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Import FIDONET.NA section Sub-Menu Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 IMPORT/EXPORT MENU SELECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Inbound files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Kill Empty (Null) messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Mailer Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 MainLine BBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Netmail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 16, 19 NOCLEAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 NOECHO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 NOWIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 OPTIONS Default origin line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Edit Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Outbound files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Passthru echo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 PATHS MENU SELECTION Drive\Path\ to your BBS Home directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Where is your bad Echo Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Where is your DupMsg Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Where is your GOMail Work Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Where is your Inbound files Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Where is your netmail directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Where is your Outbound Files Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 PURGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15, 17, 18, 40 Save Config. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 SCAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Shell to DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 SYNC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 40 TOSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 What is Echomail?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 What is GOMail?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Wildcat! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 8, 11, 13 ZOO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 -= END OF GOMail DOCUMENTATION =-