> I'm looking for a program that will all me to use 1 message
 > area in OPUS to let users send E-Mail on the Internet.
 >
 > I'd like it to allow them to enter the receiving address,
 
You need to find a local fido node that gates to the internet. They can then 
handle your email as regular fido messages and either convert them on your 
BBS or their BBS. They can usually get you the newsgroups as well. The 
messages have to be stripped of the fido header stuff and there has to be a 
gate that knows email coming out of your system is an acceptable address for 
email coming into to the gate BBS. They have a file here called IGEP that is 
supposed to work for my system but never did, and I have to manually edit the 
messages going out to strip out the areaname. Email coming in is no problem 
since Opus can put them in any directory you wish as long as it's the matrix 
message area. If the IGEP file ever worked it would have put in a areaname 
into the message so it could be sent to a desired message area.
Ask around about internet connections with nodes in your net that are already 
hooked up and they'll send you to the cheapest and most helpful gates.
 
Oh, Opus has internet capabilities, but you'll still need your connection to 
the net so you'll have to do what they suggest (read dictate), and since Opus 
is now such a minority, you'll wind up doing what they say because they'll 
have no idea what you have. Read your manual on the usenet and internet stuff 
then call a gate. 
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