* 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: 1/02/01  Scott Adams email:longshot{at}darktech.org
        faq{at}telegard.net

--- Fringe BBS