Arno Verhoeven wrote:
> Bob Meyer wrote:
> >
> > Mail2BBS is a package that enables sendmail to write an import file.
> > It's easy to configure and has install and uninstall utilities.
> >
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Thanks for making this available. I will have a look at it over the
> week-end.
> I just finished configuring mailgw a couple of weeks ago.
> Does Mail2BBS have any advantages over mailgw?
>
Yes and no. It only sends mail to the bbs system. It doesn't work the
other way. That would be bbs2mail and I don't have that ready yet. The
advantage I see is that it does both bulletins and personals. That and
it configures your sendmail.cf and relay_domains files. (But you've
already done that.) All you have to do is put the bulletin addresses in
the cf.conf file. You can put the callsigns of local bbses without the
Haddress in there too. You can make these changes to the sendmail.cf
file and use mailgw but I believe all your messages will be sent as 'SP'.
Another point is that I was never sure which one of mailgw's rewrite
files rewrote what.... The .translate.from file goes in your home
directory and changes your username to your callsign. It will also add
an R-line with the home bbs you choose. It's just 'me mycall mybbs' or
just 'me mycall'. This work for everyone that will let mail read the
.translate.from file in their home directory. Everyone else that doesn't
use callsign@host on their From line has to be changed in the
ax25/translate.from file.
You should be able to use both. You would need to save the copy of
sendmail.cf that you modified for mailgw and replace it with the
original.... that I'm sure you saved. ;-) Not that any of that
matters. The only thing that would be different in the sendmail.cf file
is the definition that links the pbbs mailer to the mail2bbs external
program. You can can put both in there and just comment out one
definition and use the other.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm tired of having to become an
expert on every little thing just so I can play with some software. If
you logon as root do a 'tar zxvf mail2bbs-0.03.tar.gz' 'cd
mail2bbs-0.03' Edit the translate.from file by adding a line 'root
<your_call>' Then type './install.sh' then 'mail ko6ri@ko6ri' adding
what ever you want to the test message you will get an import file called
/var/spool/mail/.bbsmail file. Type ./linkimports and you will get a
/usr/local/fbb/sendmail.out import file. Type uninstall.sh and it will
all be gone... Except for the import file. If you liked it, you can add
stuff to the cf.conf file that is suitable for your area. You'll know
what to add when you see it. You will probably want to change the
mail2bbs.conf file so the output file is /usr/local/fbb/mail.in. Just
run install.sh again add a line like this to root's crontab and it's
done.
0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/linkimports
Bob
