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echo: bbs_carnival
to: August Abolins
from: Philip Lozier
date: 2003-10-18 23:53:04
subject: fmail.pck examples?

AA> Hi All,

 AA> Can anyone show me how to contruct various routing
 AA> senarios in FMAIL's "FMAIL.PCK" file?

 AA> There doesn't seem to be any examples or explanations on
 AA> how to do that in the main document.

What type of scenarios do you need to set up?  I have been using FMail for
years, and could probably help with that...

I feed a couple of nodes, and have a FidoNet and SkyNet feed, and it looks
similar to this in the pack manager...

1:267/47 via 1:267/47 /H
 1:267/102 via 1:267/102 /H
 
 1:* 2:* 3:* 4:* 5:* 6:* via 1:267/200 /H
 13:* 30:* via 30:2000/0 /H

This takes the individual nodes I serve and packs the mail directly for
them, takes any other netmail I may send for zones 1 thru 6 and packs them
for my fidonet uplink, and takes mail for zones 13 and 30 (SkyNet) and
packs that netmail for my SkyNet uplink. The /H puts that mail on hold,
until my timed mail event runs.

If you were feeding an entire net, below the individual nodes, but before
the z:* entries, you could put entries like:

1:123/* via 1:123/1 /H
1:456/* via 1:456/100 /H
etc...

Unless you have a very complicated setup, or are feeding a large number of
nodes and or nets, this should be enough to get you going.

Oh... noting that you mentioned the *.pck file directly, don't manually
edit that file... use the pack manager in FMails setup program.

Hope this helps.

Phil

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* Origin: (1:267/169)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270
@PATH: 267/169 200 106/1 2000 633/267

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