Michael Glenn wrote in a message to All:
MG> Ok, this is what I'm trying to do. I want to send mail
MG> packets to another Sysop. (lives in Texas.) (Not FidoNet.)
MG> And well I don't want to go back to the old UUCP type. So
MG> what would I need to make this work. I run Fd, Gecho. (Can
MG> uncompress if needed.) And RG. I have right now GIGO. What
MG> other stuff do I need.
I've been impressed with Pete Rocca's "transx" product. It can
work via uucp, via a pop account, or via smtp (with a bit of manipulation for
your brand of smtp - GIGO's is a peice of cake, assuming that os/2 is installed
of course ;-).
Registration on this is great - two links for free (email for key).
More than that, and you need to drop sixty bucks in the mail to Pete
(presumably, have the person who's saving long distance charges
pay for it!).
Here's info on it..
http://www.multiboard.com
ftp://niesc.k12.in.us/pub/multibrd/transx11.zip
ftp://207.134.102.2/multiboard/transx11.zip
fido: 1:2401/305 (TRANSX11.ZIP)
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What is it?
* An inexpensive solution to the high cost of running long-distance
fidonet comaptible connections.
* Transx is, in essence, a fidonet mail tosser that uses internet
email as a transfer medium rather than requiring you to call the
remote system directly to transfer mail.
Is it secure?
* It has integrated error checking, and loss prevention methods,
as well as security features to ensure the safe unaltered delivery
of your mail.
How does it work?
* What it does is scan through your netmail directory, looking for
mail destined to sites you have setup in your connections list.
Upon finding any, it will encode the mail and any attached files
and send them to the remote site via email. The remote site would
then use Transx to decode these messages back into their original
state, just as if you had called directly and dropped them off.
How much work is it to run and maintain?
* Once setup, this send and receive transfer process is fully
automated and runs much like your echomail processor does.
- Area: Discussion of Usenet-FidoNet Gating Methods --------------------------
Msg#: 3 Date: 05 Aug 96 10:06:06
From: Pete Rocca Read: Yes Replied: No
To: Jason Fesler Mark:
Subj: Internet gateways...
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JF> You might want to look at the docs for it. I believe it requires
JF> a working UUCP or SMTP setup - ie, it's meant for a person who's
JF> running a gateway, to aid in tunneling fidonet mail between
JF> themselves and another gateway.
JF> Requesting that someone provide you wiht gateway service,
JF> and then requiring transx on top of it, seems entirely
JF> self defeating to me ;-).
TransX by itself, yes most definately - however a (free) released side
package called TxMAILER uses a built-in SMTP/POP3 engine to deliver and
receive packets directly from a private mailbox, so in theory one could
have all their Fidonet style packaged email converted and delivered to
their regular email box eliminating the need for a local UUCP/gateway in
order to be able to offer email for their users.
JF> In any case, this is what Pete Rocca sent me for when people
JF> ask me how to tunnel mail from one gate to another. Perhaps
Guess I should have sent this too, sorry Jason. :)
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What is it?
* TxMAILER is a package that will use SMTP and POP3 to send and
retrieve TransX mail bundles from your standard email account.
* TxMAILER is only designed to be used with TransX v1.1 or higher
and does not function as a stand-alone package.
How does it work?
* What it does is dial your internet provider over a SLIP/PPP link
and once connected sends your outbound TransX bundles with SMTP
then scans your POP3 mailbox for any TransX mail. If it finds
any, it will save them to disk for TransX to process and remove
them from your mailbox.
* If you normally use this same mailbox for your personal mail and
download it with something like Eudora(r), Microsoft Exchange(r)
or Microsoft Mail/News(r) you will need to take precaution to make
sure that mail for TransX is not deleted from your mailbox when you
transfer mail from your host to your machine. Some of the readers
mentioned above will allow you to specify whether mail should
automatically be deleted from your mailbox. If not you must always
run TxMAILER before downloading your mail otherwise your regular
mail client will download all the mail and delete it from the
mailbox, including the TransX mail rendering TxMAILER useless.
* An optimal solution would be to ask your internet provider if you
can have a secondary mailbox. Most providers will do this for
free or for a very nominal charge. Get your second mailbox named
something like "userid-tx", in my case "rocca-tx" this would
become your robot name in TransX, as well as your mailbox name.
Then all of the TransX mail could be sent and received from
"userid-tx@yourisp.com" leaving your personal mailbox untouched
by TransX or TxMAILER.
How much work is it to run and maintain?
* Once setup, this send and receive transfer process is fully
automated and runs from a batch file which is automatically
created each time you run TXBUILD.EXE
Pete Rocca
Multiboard Communications Centre
support@multiboard.com
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