Subject: Ifmail 1.7 - FidoNet mailer and gateway for U*IX platform
From: [email-masked] (Eugene Crosser)
Date: 20 Dec 1993 01:56:34 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

ifmail17.tar.z (145544 bytes) is available at:
tsx-11.mit.edu:		/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin
sunsite.unc.edu:	/pub/Linux/apps/comm

BETA version of a full-featured FidoNet (tm) compatible mailer for U*IX
platform released. The features are ((+) means already implemented, (-)
- not yet implemented):

- FTS-0001(+), YooHoo/2U2(+), EMSI(+) handshake
- Bark(+) and WaZOO(+) file requests, update(+) requests
- "Magic" file requests - send stdout of a program run in responce to the
  file request(+)
- Accept incoming calls in cooperation with uugetty (needed fixes to Linux 
  getty_ps and Gert Doering's mgetty available) (+)
- Locking of dialout devices against simultaneous use with uucico and
  others(+)
- Flexible configuration with logical expressions based on nodelist flags,
  address of the called system and time of day(+)
- Support for 5d addressing, BinkelyTerm outbound directory structure(+)
- Multiple nodelists(+)
- File transfer protocols: Xmodem(+), Telink/Modem7(+untested), Sealink 
  w/resync(+), Zmodem 1024(+), ZedZap(+), Janus(-), Hydra(-)
- Outgoing file request is not removed if the session is incomplete(+)
- Incomig file requests are not mixed if several simultaneous sessions
  take place (+).
- A special flag file created for a node with which a session started, to
  inform the packer that existing arcmail file attaches should no longer
  be updated (this flag file is checked by "ifmail" gateway)(-)
- Run on various U*IX platforms: Linux(+), 386BSD(+), SCO(+?), SVR4(+?),
  SunOS(+?)
- Have I missed anything?

Together with the mailer program, an updated version of gateway programs
is packed.  The features are:

- Designed to cooperate with typical U*IX MTA's and netnews support 
  packages, can be used for netmail routing (in cooperation with a
  U*IX MTA, such as Smail, Zmailer, sendmail).
- Smart SEEN-BY processing makes possible to use it as an echomail 
  distribution mechanism (in cooperation with c-news or INN)
- Automatic alias database makes "netmail replies" from FidoNet to
  Internet easy and independant from the software used on FidoNet side.
- "Backward aliasing" - if some FidoNet address is in the system-wide
  alias file, netmail from this address going to Internet gets a
  Reply-To: header with that alias @ local host FQDN.
- Much of the header information is preserved and restored in case of
  double gatewaying (helps to fight duplicates, analyze routing problems 
  etc.)
- Attached files are routed with the appropriate fileattach message.
- Support for 5d addressing, BinkelyTerm outbound directory structure(+)
- Run on various U*IX platforms: Linux, 386BSD, SCO(?), SVR4, SunOS

Generally, when the package is fully functional, it should be sufficient
to run a real multiline FidoNet node on a U*IX machine.

--
Eugene Crosser <[email-masked]>; 2:5020/49.14@FidoNet

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