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<META name="author" lang="en" content="Michiel Broek">
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2011-05-22 19:21:15 +00:00
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<!-- MBSEADVERT -->
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2009-05-15 20:01:56 +00:00
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<div align='right'><h5>Last update 10-May-2002</h5></div>
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<div align='center'><H1>MBSE BBS - Internet Gateway.</H1></div>
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<H3>Introduction.</H3>
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<P>
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Since version 0.33.14 the email gateway is build into MBSE BBS and since
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version 0.33.15 the newsgateway is build into MBSE BBS. Since version 0.33.16 the
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newsgateway to UUCP nodes is added. To route
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email trafic to and from the internet you need a internet MTA. I stopped using
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<strong>sendmail</strong> for this because it gave too much trouble setting it
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up together with MBSE BBS.
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Today I use <A HREF="http://www.postfix.org">Postfix</A>,
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a well documented, secure and easy to setup MTA. For the actual gate from
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Postfix to the BBS you I use <b>mbmail</b> which you need to add to the
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Postfix configuration.<P>
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There may be two reasons to create a gateway, one is to gate internet news and
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email to the Fidonet bbs users, another reason may be that you want to make
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echomail as news available on your system so that users can connect to your
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bbs with their favourite browser an get the mail and news using pop3 and
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nntp protocols. The setup is the same for both reasons so I will make one
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description for the whole setup.
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<P> <P>
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<H3>Setup a newsgate node with inn.</H3>
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If you only want to gate internet news to your bbs users and not want to
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make echomail available as news, and you have a permament internet connection
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then you don't need your own news server. This will also work on dialup links,
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once the internet connection is up, make sure that <b>mbfido news -quiet</b> is
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started as user mbse.
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To do this configure MBSE BBS to use the newsserver of your ISP in screen 1.15
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with mbsetup.
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If you don't want to use the newsserver of your ISP or want to make echomail
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available as news for your local users you must install your own newsserver.
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You could use <A HREF="http://www.isc.org">inn news</A> for a newsserver.
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To connect a small feed with your ISP you could use <strong>suck</strong>.
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In each echomail area you want to gate you need to fill in the newsgroup
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name of that area and echomail received in that area will automatic be
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posted to that newsgroup. The command <b>mbfido news</b> will check all
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configured newsgroups for new newsarticles. If you set it up for the first
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time you need to run <strong>mbfido news -learn</strong> to fill the dupes
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database for news with all the already existing news articles. If you skip
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that, you may get a lot of old articles that will be gated. Just run that
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command once after you have set this up. Later when you receive fresh articles
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the command <strong>mbfido news</strong> will only gate new arrived articles.
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In each mail area you can set the number of articles to get in one run. If you
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set this too high, mbfido will scan all headers on the newsserver for new
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articles. This can cost a lot of time. The best thing to do is to set this value
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about four times higher then the average number of messages per day in that
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group. If you set it too low, warning messages will appear in the logfile.
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<P> <P>
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<H3>Setup a newsgate with rnews.</H3>
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This is the setup if you don't want an NNTP newsserver like inn, but a simple
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cnews setup for UUCP links only. In <strong>mbsetup</strong> menu 1.15 you need
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to set this up. You need to fill in the path to the rnews program so that
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<strong>mbfido</strong> can post articles to cnews. MORE INFO NEEDED.
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In each echomail area you want to gate you need to fill in the newsgroup
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name of that area and echomail received in that area will automatic be
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posted to that newsgroup.
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<P> <P>
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<H3>Setup a newsgate via UUCP.</H3>
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With this setup you don't run a local newsserver, only your bbs users and
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Fidonet links can then use news. You need to install <strong>uucp</strong>
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on your system. With <strong>mbsetup</strong> menu 1.15 you need to set this
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up. Suppose your ISP's nodename is xs4all the you probably need to set the
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UUCP path to <code>/var/spool/uucp/xs4all</code> and the UUCP node to
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<code>xs4all</code>. Your own nodename will be your system's hostname without
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the domain part.
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In each echomail area you want to gate you need to fill in the newsgroup
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name of that area and echomail received in that area will automatic be
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posted to that newsgroup.
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<P> <P>
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<H3>Setup a email gate.</H3>
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See <A HREF="postfix.html">Postfix (email) configuration</A>
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