Hi Michael.

MG>  MG>> An IP mailer helps, but is not absolutely necessary. You can
MG>  MG>> manually attach and download the mail packets via e-mail. With
MG>  MG>> programs like Irex though, IP transfers are pretty easy to
MG>  MG>> accomplish.

MG>  DP> Allrighty then!  

MG>  DP> Um, as I come from a PCBoard and Wildcat! world, all the terminology
MG>  DP> above is still all Greek to me.  Is there documentation somewhere that
MG>  DP> I can read to set this up?

MG> Well, a good place to start is http://archives.thebbs.org. You'll find a large
MG> depository of Fidonet software under the "file archives" link.

MG> Look under "Front Ends and Mailers"; you'll find Argus and
Radius there. They
MG> are 32-bit windows mailers that can do telnet, BinkP and dial-up mail
MG> transfers. (Radius is a clone of Argus, based on it's open source code)

MG> Under "InterNet BBS Utilities", you will find Irex (also
available at
MG> http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex). That one does BinkP as well, and also FTP
MG> and e-mail attachment based transfers.

MG> Under "Message Base Utilities, you will find a wide variety of
mail tossers and
MG> message base maintenance utilities. I highly recommend either Squish or HPT.
MG> You can also find FTN editors in that area. Amongst the more popular ones are
MG> GoldEd (there's several different versions, also due to an open source), MsgEd
MG> and FTNed.

MG> You can also find most of these programs plus a few others on my own BBS files
MG> site. The URL is http://madhsefile.ods.org.

MG> There are also a few packages specifically tailored to point setups. Some of
MG> these include Sempoint (available on my site), FrontDoor APX (at
www.defsol.de)
MG> and Terminate (www.terminate.com).

MG> Play around with some of those programs a bit, and if you find a combination
MG> that you like and want some more in-depth help in setting it all up, feel free
MG> to e-mail me at magrant{at}madmail.ods.org, or mike.grant{at}softhome.net. I mmay
MG> also have an archive of a GoldEd/Squish/Sqafix/Irex combination
package kicking
MG> around somewhere on my hard disks.

Thanks very much Michael.  This is a great jumping off point.

shades{at}shadesworld.net
http://shadesworld.net

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