I don;t use fastecho myself but am inquiring for another person who is looking to set up FidoNet and needs to make use of fileboxes for part of his setup. Exactly where do you set the filebox for an individual node. I use FMail myself, but set up fastecho to see if I could find where this is done for this guy and it seems to escape me.

Any help?

Thanks,

Phil

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Hi! Philip,

In a message to All you wrote:

I don't use fastecho myself but am inquiring for another person who
is looking to set up FidoNet and needs to make use of fileboxes for
part of his setup. Exactly where do you set the filebox for an
individual node. I use FMail myself, but set up fastecho to see if I could find where this is done for this guy and it seems to escape me.

Any help?

I looked at this notion a few years back and couldn't find a way with FastEcho.
The closest method would be to not have FE create file-attach netmails, and use a BATch or similar script to look for and move created ARCmail files for nodes to fileboxes (see paragraph "6.2.4 - FastEcho Toss -F", page 114 in the FE manual).

Frankly, I cannot remember why I would have wanted to do it, as FE's BSO tossing is as good as it gets without the need for filebox-type operation.[shrug] Binkley, binkD, Argus and Radius have worked fine with FE, here.

If anyone asks me about such things as filebox operation I usually recommend they try/use FMail. :)

Cheers,
Paul.

--- Radius 4.010/21.01.2005(Final)
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Frankly, I cannot remember why I would have wanted to do it, as
FE's BSO tossing is as good as it gets without the need for
filebox-type operation.[shrug] Binkley, binkD, Argus and Radius
have worked fine with FE, here.

Alrighty then... the objective is to have this guy be able to set up BinkD... he already uses fastecho for another network that he accesses via FTP, so FE is
going to stay on his system.

The way I run BinkD is with FMail using fileboxes.

What would be the way to set up FE with BinkD???

Hopefully the method will not interfere with anything he already has set up.

If anyone asks me about such things as filebox operation I usually recommend they try/use FMail. :)

A-yah. :)

Phil

--- FMail/Win32 1.60
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I don;t use fastecho myself but am inquiring for another person who is looking to set up FidoNet and needs to make use of fileboxes for part of his setup. Exactly where do you set the filebox for an individual node.
I use FMail myself, but set up fastecho to see if I could find where this is done for this guy and it seems to escape me.

For some time I used BinkD moving files (created by FastEcho) from
FrontDoor queue to directories in a .bat with mail2dir:

M2D110.ZIP 306597 27-Mar-1998

MAIL2DIR 1.10 - Move mail to spool
directory. A program that can move all
mail that is waiting for a specified
system to a spool directory. Useful to
retrieve mail for a point over a
network, to prepare mail for pickup via
FTP, etc. Support for FrontDoor 2.25 and
later, as well as earlier versions.
DOS, OS/2 and Win32 version.

Today I'm using IRex that has better integration with FD and don't
need this trick anymore (they share the same queue).

[]s

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I don;t use fastecho myself but am inquiring for another
person who is looking to set up FidoNet and needs to make use
of fileboxes for part of his setup. Exactly where do you set
the filebox for an individual node. I use FMail myself, but
set up fastecho to see if I could find where this is done for
this guy and it seems to escape me.

FE does BSO stuff without problems... to use fileboxes, which were introduced after the current public release, requires the use of additional software and configuration...

if the system is using FileAttach (like frontdoor) then there are a few programs that can be used to "convert" that to fileboxes for those systems that
need that capability... i use this format here with about 10 or so systems as the method of integrating FD and BINKD together...

if the system uses BSO, then there should not have to be any conversion because
all the new mailers operate in BSO fashion...

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Frankly, I cannot remember why I would have wanted to do it, as
FE's BSO tossing is as good as it gets without the need for
filebox-type operation.[shrug] Binkley, binkD, Argus and Radius
have worked fine with FE, here.

Alrighty then... the objective is to have this guy be able to
set up BinkD... he already uses fastecho for another network
that he accesses via FTP, so FE is going to stay on his
system.

it is an either/or situation between FA and BSO methods... what mailer is being
used besides the desire to use BINKD??

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Hi! Philip,

On Tue, 28 Mar 06, you wrote to me:

Binkley, binkD, Argus and Radius have worked fine with FE, here.

Alrighty then... the objective is to have this guy be able to set up

[ ...trimmed... ]

What would be the way to set up FE with BinkD???

Tell him to run FeSetup.exe and change the settings at:

System-->Miscellaneous-->Mailer, to "Binkley/Xenia" &

System-->Pathnames-->Outbound, to the same binkD outbound for his default zone
(zone 1?), or, the viccie-versa, set BinkD to
the same FE outbound directory path.

From there on "it's a male<-->female thing" (as the chick engineer said in the movie 'Max Q'). FE will create outbound directories for other zones, as required, and binkD will use them and may delete them (other zones only) after mail transfers (I forget? - that's what Radius does anyhow).

Hopefully the method will not interfere with anything he already has
set up.

That's the kicker, hey.

Cheers,
Paul.

--- Radius 4.010/21.01.2005(Final)
* Origin: The ATM just asked if I wanted to go double or nothing! (3:640/384)

Hopefully the method will not interfere with anything he already has
set up.

That's the kicker, hey.

especially if everything else is setup FA (FileAttach) method al la frontdoor...

)\/(ark


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Hi! mark,

On Wed, 29 Mar 06, you wrote to me:

Hopefully the method will not interfere with anything he
already has set up.

That's the kicker, hey.

especially if everything else is setup FA (FileAttach) method al la frontdoor...

Yeah, you're quite correct. But I did figure that if the other feller is looking to switch from FTP over to binkD, then he won't mind going full BSO.

Cheers,
Paul.

--- Radius 4.010/21.01.2005(Final)
* Origin: Brain damage? No thanks, I already have some. (3:640/384)