* Netmail/Internet Email Mini-FAQ by Scott Adams / Longshot (IRC) Due to frequent questions on how to setup TG to get/send both Netmail AND email I've formed this mini-faq. It is the setup I use here with Gecho, FD, Netmgr & Telegard. Any other mailer should be similar in it's basic setup like Fastecho. So follow this as a guidelins. Some of this may not be in direct order to follow but should be an outline. 1) Gecho - Gsetup Gsetup -> System Data -> Network Addresses First you'll have to tell Gecho your network addresses like so.. ³ Main 1:112/91 J/M ³ Aka 1 33:409/0 J/M ³ Aka 2 33:409/1 J/M ³ Aka 3 95:200/54 J/M ³ Aka 4 100:6607/14 J/M Each slot should have your net address in it. The right J/M denotes a JAM Message base where netmail is moved to. This is important. So when you give it a net address you'll need to assign a netmail base to it like NETMAIL (see below). Gsetup -> System Data -> PathNames ³ Netmail C:\FD\NETMAIL\ ³ Inbound mail C:\inbound\ These two are important to the setup and should match your Front End-Mailer's setup. Gsetup -> Misc. -> Netmail Options ³ Rcvd netmail area J/M ³ ³ Sent netmail area J/M ³ From this section those 2 are important. It attaches any received or sent netmail from the same base you applied in the Network Address section. Without this pointing to NETMAIL or such it may not work. Gsetup -> Area Manager Now to setup the actual 2 bases in gecho ³ Area name NETMAIL ³ Comment Regular Network Netmail ³ Area type Echomail ³ Format JAM ³ Base name C:\TGdir\MSGS\NETMAIL ³ Group L - Local to BBS ³ Origin AKA 1:112/91 ³ Seen-By 1:112/91 ³ Connections 1:112/91 Of this you will notice it's ECHOMAIL instead of netmail. This seems to work more efficiently this way. Area name IMAIL Comment Internet Email Area type Netmail Format JAM Base name C:\TGdir\MSGS\IMAIL Group L - Local to BBS Origin AKA 1:112/91 Seen-By 1:112/91 Connections 1:112/91 That's for Internet Email. 2) Telegard Setup Now you should setup your TG msg bases like so... A. Description Fringe Gatemail -Netmail B. Area tag NETMAIL C. Area path "C:\TGdir\MSGS\" Area name "C:\TGdir\MSGS\NETMAIL" D. Area format JAM E. Area type Netmail M. Mail address AKA matching S. Anonymous No N. Mail flags R-----/8A-ST T. *Tracking N/A O. Posting type Private U. Info filename MSGH Notice the Filename of Netmail.* matches that of Gecho's. A. Description Fringe Internet Email Sub B. Area tag IMAIL C. Area path "C:\TGdir\MSGS\" Area name "C:\TGdir\MSGS\IMAIL" D. Area format JAM E. Area type Internet Email M. Mail address AKA matching S. Anonymous No N. Mail flags R-----/8A-ST T. *Tracking N/A O. Posting type Private U. Info filename MSGH Now as we did with Gecho we should let TG know of the networks we are in as follows: Message System Configuration - Network Addresses ## Address MatchAKA NetArea ## Address MatchAKA NetArea -- ----------------- -------- -------- -- ----------------- -------- ------ 1 1:112/91 1:112 NETMAIL 11 0:0/0 3 33:409/1 33:0 NETMAIL 13 88:310/0 88:310 NETMAIL 4 33:409/1 33:409 NETMAIL 14 88:310/100 88:310 NETMAIL 6 90:803/11 90:0 NETMAIL 16 12:904/5 12:904 NETMAIL Notice each net could have its own netmail base but for this purpose I use only one base. Some settings that could work with your configuartion Message System Configuration D. Netmail status Kill L. Userlist lookup Enabled E. Hold all netmail No M. Nodelist lookup Enabled F. UUCP email gate 1:112/102 N. SmartQuote Disabled G. Antiquated UUCP Disabled O. QuickQuote Disabled Y. Write logging C:\TGdir\ Option D will be good for users who might use netmail. F is the internet gateway I use. Option Y tells TG to generate the *.jam files like netmail.jam and such. 3) Front Door - Front End Mailer FDSETUP -> Global -> Address is the same with setting up net addresses like in Gecho. FDSETUP -> Global -> Filenames - the inbound and netmail dir should match gecho and TG's information. FDSETUP -> Mailer -> Misc. as an option you can have FD exit upon any receipt of netmail or any file (as I do) so users can get netmail and email when it comes in. 4) Batch File In the batch file that runs your FEM/BBS you should have lines that tells Gecho to toss out going mail. if Exist c:\tgdir\echomail.jam goto Quick if exist c:\tgdir\netmail.jam goto Quick Netmail.jam is for netmail and Email. :Quick Gecho scan -Quick With the -quick it does it ALOT more faster by reading the outgoing msgs in the *.jam files. To import the netmail you should do a Gecho Toss Import (adding Import) to the commandline. 5) Netmgr Finally some have problems tossing email (which is generally given in *.msg format (same as netmail so it gets confused) to the RIGHT TG email base. With Netmgr you can do a function to correct this. With netmgr you can have the *.msg files (sitting in FD by now if you get some) to the right base. You'll need to setup a netmgr.cfg like so: --------------------------------------------------- Home 1:112/91.0 Origin Fringe BBS - EWOG II (904)-733-1721 (1:112/91) Log c:\fd\netmgr.log ScanDir c:\fd\netmail Mask *, 1:112/102.0, *, *, *, * Action Move !c:\tgdir\msgs\imail ; fromname, fromaddress, toname, toaddress, subject, attributes ---------------------------------------------------- Home: MAIN address with .0 for point (otherwise it doesn't work). Origin - your origin line :) ScanDir- This tells Netmgr where to scan for netmail (*.msg files) Once it scans and finds *.msg files with FROMADDRESS of 1:112/102.0 (in my case my fidonet internet gateway) via the MASK command. It will then do a action of MOVING that *.msg file into the email base. Netmgr should be run BEFORE you process regular mail. So in the batch file put Netmgr before your Gecho... statements I have Netmgr freqable from here as NTMGR98.arj In conclusion this is the setup I use here and it works. There is another source that was hatched via TG_SUP - TGFIGV40.zip which does a simliar FAQ and step by step setup (also freqable). Revised: 1/02/2001 Scott Adams email:longshot@darktech.org