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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
- From: etmelag@crosby.ericsson.se (Louis Lagendijk)
- Subject: Rfmail released
- Keywords: Rfmail, mail, news
-
- I have released my (working) version of Rfmail 0.5. I have ported it to
- Linux and hacked it quite a bit so it will work with the Binkley port already
- available for Linux.
-
- Rfmail is a fidonet to news/mail converter so it allows you to run your
- fidomail stuff under Linux. Rfmail also includes an own mailer, but I never
- tested it as I need an EMSI capable mailer.
-
- This rfmail version:
- - Runs under Linux
- - creates binkley style flow files
- - can autoamitically pack/unpack mail with ANY packer
- - handles multi-address setups quite nicely
- - creates and receives type 2+ packets.`
-
- I have rfmail uploaded as rfmail.0.5.01a.tar.z to halcyon.com and to tsx-11.
- After uploading I found that the sun happily (without error message) damaged
- the original tar, so gzip could not unpack it. I have it uploaded again with
- the name rfmail.0.5.01a.tar.z.again, but it should be stored under the other
- name. I could not reach sunsite, so I have not stored it there.
-
- Here is a part of the README on the patches I made:
-
- Rfmail 0.5.0.1 adapted for use with the BinkleyTerm mailer
- ===========================================================
-
- This version of Rfmail has been adapted to create Binkley Term
- style mail packets and flowfiles, improved packer hadling 4-d
- support and multi-address support.
- These patches are only tested on my own system (Linux 0.99), and
- even there they have only been briefly tested. So if this causes
- you to loose a lot of mail.
- If you decide to use this version of Rfmail you do that on your
- own risk, so if you loose all your mail, I will not be responsible.
-
- Binkley support
- ---------------
-
- In the configuration header file (conf.h) there is now a
- #define for Binkley. The Configure script knows about this
- define too. Defining BINKLEY will cause Rfmail to create flow
- files and mail files for Binkley, so there is no more need
- for fiddling with batch files.
- Rfmail does not yet know about Binkley style lock files. I am
- not sure what I should implement: Binkley style lock files
- (.BSY) or whether I should change Binkley to use Unix style
- lock files. I will probably use the Unix style.
-
- Packer support
- --------------
-
- I have Rfmail also extended with support for multiple packers,
- so that you can receive and send mail packed with any packer.
- I have this working for ARC and LHarc right now (one of my
- bosses sends me my mail packed with zip, but gets Lharc, the
- other sends mail packed with old Lharc and gets mail packed with
- arc (yes, I know, I should clean this mess up).
- The idea for the packer handling comes from Squish that has a
- separate configuration file for the handling of packing of mail.
- Be sure to add mail to the archive when you call fpack again
- before mail is actually sent.
- See also the packer statement in rfmail.cf as well as the key
- statement.
-
- Multi address support
- ---------------------
-
- Rfmail now allows for using different aliases for sending mail and
- sending of echomail. People having addresses in alternets will like
- this. I also needed this as I am a multipoint: I have two normal
- fidonet point addresses. This option may appear to be a bit tricky:
- for echomail you specify the alias in the newsgroup definition
- (#<address>). The alias used for mail as well as the alias used in the
- packets is specified in the key statement.
- See the key statement in rfmail.cf.
-
-
- 4-d support
- -----------
- Rfmail now can send 4-d packets. FTS-001 packets are still the default,
- but you can specify the packettype for different nodes or even
- networks in (again) the key statement in rfmail.cf.
- Packets according to FSC-0045 can be sent but not yet received, so this
- is kind of a joke. FSC-0045 has not been tested at all yet (Rfmail is
- actually not domain aware anyhow).
-
- Fido-style adresses
- -------------------
- Rfmail has been changed so that adresses in the style:
- foo_bar@1.2.3.4 can be interpreted in the internet way, so the address
- would map to: foo bar at 4:3/2.1 or in the fidonet order, so that the
- address would map to: foo bar at 1:2/3.4.
-
- As said before, the patches are not extensively tested, so please do send
- comments/bug reports etc.
-
- Louis Lagendijk
- louis@nextjk.wlink.nl or
- 2:281/202.5 or
- 2:285/311.58
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