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<h5>Last update 28-Jun-2002</h5>
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<H1>MBSE BBS Setup - Fidonet nodes.</H1>
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<h3>Introduction</H3>
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Unlike many other bbs packages, for each node you need only one record. If you
have a relation with a node for one network with costsharing, and other
networks without costsharing you need two records for that node. For each node
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you can setup the aka's, mail, files and session handshake. There are eight
screens for each node.
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<H3>Edit general setup</H3>
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This screen has the general information for the node. The contact info fields are
just for private use, these fields are only used in this screen. The Outbox dir is for
files to sent to the node, all file you put in there will be sent to the remote if
user mbse has read/write access to the file. Only real files are allowed, not symlinks etc.
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<strong>Sysop name </strong>The name of the system operator.
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<strong>Outbox dir </strong>Private extra outbound directory for this node.
<strong>Pvt. phone </strong>Contact info, node private phone.
<strong>Pvt. fax </strong>Contact info, node private fax.
<strong>Pvt. cellphone </strong>Contact info, node cellphone (GSM).
<strong>Pvt. e-mail </strong>Contact info, node e-mail address.
<strong>Pvt. remark </strong>Contact info, node remark.
<strong>Route via </strong>A route via Fido address. All mail for this
node will be send via this Aka, even mail
and files for other networks. This can be
usefull if this node has internet access
so you can send everything to this node
over the internet.
<strong>Netmail direct </strong>Set "direct" flag in netmail to this node.
<strong>Netmail crash </strong>Send netmail always "crash" to this node.
<strong>Netmail hold </strong>Put mail on "hold" for this node.
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<strong>Pack netmail </strong>Should netmail be packed in arcmail archives.
<strong>Send notify </strong>Send automatic generated notify messages.
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<strong>Language </strong>The language to use for areamgr msgs.
<strong>Deleted </strong>If this node must be deleted.
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<H3>Edit nodes aka's</H3>
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In this screen you can setup 20 aka's for the node.
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<H3>Edit node session</H3>
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In this screen you can setup the session defaults. Items 5/8 will be added later.
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<strong>Session passwd </strong>This is the mailer session password.
<strong>Dial command </strong>You can put an override here for the normal
dial command. If you leave this empty the
command from the modem setup is used.
<strong>Phone number 1 </strong>An alternative phone number/ip address to dial.
<strong>Phone number 2 </strong>An alternative phone number/ip address to dial.
Use these above commands if the node has
another phone number as mentioned in the
nodelist. If you call this node via TCP/IP
and the IP address can't be resolved by
the nodelist, you may enter an IP address
or hostname here.
<strong>No EMSI </strong>Disable EMSI handshake.
<strong>No YooHoo/2U2 </strong>Disable FTSC-0006 handshake.
<strong>No Filerequest </strong>Disable filerquest from this node.
<strong>Don't call </strong>Do not call this node.
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<strong>8.3 names </strong>Set this if the node only accepts 8.3 filenames.
<strong>No Zmodem </strong>Disable Zmodem protocol.
<strong>No Zedzap </strong>Disable Zedzap protocol.
<strong>No Hydra </strong>Disable Hydra protocol.
<strong>No TCP/IP IBN </strong>Disbale TCP/IP IBN (binkp) protocol.
<strong>No TCP/IP IFC </strong>Disable TCP/IP IFC (ifcico) protocol.
<strong>No TCP/IP ITN </strong>Disable TCP/IP ITN (telnet) protocol.
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<H3>Edit node - mail processing</H3>
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<strong>PKT password </strong>The password to insert in .pkt files.
<strong>Check PKT pwd </strong>Check password in received .pkt files. If not,
errors or missing passwords are only logged.
If set, errors or missing password are refused
and the .pkt files are renamed to .bad
<strong>UplMgr program </strong>The name of the Areamgr program of this node.
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This could be AreaFix, AreaMgr etc.
<strong>UplMgr passwd </strong>The password for the Areamgr of this node.
<strong>Mail forward </strong>Not in use yet.
<strong>ARCmail comp. </strong>Use ARCmail 0.60 file naming convention for out of zone mail.
<strong>ARCmail a..z </strong>Allow a..z last character for ARCmail filenames.
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<H3>Edit mail groups</H3>
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Here you can tag which mail groups are available for this node. Note that all
groups are visible here, even for networks this node has no aka's in. Be
carefull not to allow a node to connect areas from networks he has no aka in.
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<H3>File setup</H3>
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<strong>Files password </strong>The password for .tic files.
<strong>Mgr password </strong>The password for the Areamgr and Filemgr.
<strong>UplMgr program </strong>The name of the Filemgr progrom of this node.
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This could be FileMgr, Allfix, Raid etc.
<strong>UplMgr passwd </strong>The password of the Filemgr if this node.
<strong>UplMgr Add + </strong>Add a "+" in the command to connect areas.
<strong>Incl. message </strong>Send a netmail message for each file to send.
<strong>Send TIC file </strong>Send .tic file to this node.
<strong>Advanced TIC </strong>Send advanced or standard .tic files.
<strong>File forward </strong>Forward TIC files for this node (not yet).
<strong>Billing </strong>Is Costsharing active for this node.
<strong>Bill direct </strong>Send the bill direct or on command.
<strong>Credit </strong>The credit this node has in units.
<strong>Debet </strong>The debet we have with this node (informational).
<strong>Add </strong>Add (or substract) factor to the bill.
<strong>Warn level </strong>The debet level when to write a warning mesage.
<strong>Stop level </strong>The debet level when to stop sending files.
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<H3>File groups</H3>
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The same story as for mail groups is true for the file groups.
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<H3>Statistics</H3>
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In this statistics screen you can see the mail and files flow with this
node. Values are stored for the current week, the previous week, the
current month and previous month and the overall total since you defined
this node. There are actual 12 months of statistics stored in the nodes
record, only 2 are visible.
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