1. 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 tosser), an FTN-FTN gateway (NetMail only), a file processor (TIC file areas) and an Areafix/Filefix.

1.1 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/

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

1.2 Requirements for FIDOGATE:

• Something that gets you FIDONET mail. If you want a Unix-based Fido mailer, I recommend using ifcico or BinkD.

• Installed news system (INN prefered)

• Mail transport agent (sendmail prefered)

• Perl (version 5 strictly required)

• M4 for compiling the sendmail config files

1.3 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

1.4 Credits

The ancestor of both FIDOGATE and ifmail was a Usenet posting to alt.sources called rfmail ages ago. None of this original code survived the massive rewrite and new code which makes FIDOGATE.