FIDOGATE - Introduction to FIDOGATE

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# Introduction to FIDOGATE

FIDOGATE is a Fido-Internet gateway and a Fido tosser. It is placed under the GNU General Public License, see COPYING for details.

The gateway converts between the worlds of Fido NetMail/EchoMail (or FTNs, Fido Technology Networks in general) and the UNIX mail/news system. FIDOGATE will convert Fido mail packets to RFC822/1036-style messages and vice versa.

FIDOGATE also includes a complete FIDO mail processor (NetMail/EchoMail scanner and tosser), an FTN-FTN gateway (NetMail only), a file processor (TIC file areas) and an Areafix/Filefix.

## How to Get FIDOGATE

The latest version of FIDOGATE is available at the locations.

Internet WWW FIDOGATE home page:

    http://www.fido.de/fidogate/

Internet anonymous ftp:

    ftp://ftp.fido.de/pub/fidogate/
    ftp://ftp.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mail+news/fidogate/

BBS and FIDO frequest:

    2:2452/110 111  242:1000/1 2  +49-241-876604  (V.34, ISDN V.110, X.75)
    Magic name FIDOGATE

## Requirements for FIDOGATE:

- Something that gets you FIDONET mail. If you want a UNIX-based FIDO mailer, I recommend using ifcico from Eugene Crosser's ifmail package.
- Installed news system. (CNews, INN)
- A news reader. (nn, tin, Emacs GNUS, netscape, slrn, trn, knews, xrn, ...)
- A mail transport agent. (sendmail, smail)
- A mail user agent. (mail, elm, pine, Emacs VM, netscape, xfmail, ...)
- Perl. (version 4.036 or 5.000+)
- M4 for compiling the sendmail config files.

## FIDOGATE Mailing List

There is a NEW mailing list for FIDOGATE discussions and announcements:

    fidogate@fido.de

To subscribe to this mailing list, send a message to

    majordomo@fido.de

with the command

    subscribe fidogate

in the message body (not subject!). This will not immediately put your email address into the mailing list. A confirmation mail with an authentication code will be send to you, which must be returned to majordomo to finally enable your subscription.

To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the command

    unsubscribe fidogate

## Credits

This stuff is a derived version of a posting called `rfmail` to Usenet's alt.sources some time ago. I rewrote the entire code by now.

The original `rfmail` authors were: Teemu Torma, who wrote the first version, and Heikki Suonsivu, who did some changes and improvements and posted version 0.3.3 to the net.

Also used:

The parsedate.y date/time parser, from INN 1.4:

    Originally written by Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> while
    at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Later tweaked by
    a couple of people on Usenet.  Completely overhauled by Rich $alz
    <rsalz@osf.org> and Jim Berets <jberets@bbn.com> in August, 1990.
    Further revised (removed obsolete constructs and cleaned up timezone
    names) in August, 1991, by Rich.  Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
    helped in September, 1992.

(Changed slightly and adopted for FIDOGATE)

The xstrtok() function:

    16/10/1991      Wolfram Roesler         wr@bara.oche.de

GNU `getopt`.

The wildmat() function from GNU tar, modified and adopted for FIDOGATE.

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