Subj : Re: FastEcho Netmail
To   : Phoobar
From : Warpslide
Date : Mon Jun 08 2020 10:29:24

On 07 Jun 2020, Phoobar said the following...
 
 Ph> Still having trouble getting SGMail to connect...much less BinkD. Still
 Ph> giving me errors when attempting to connect with the hubs. Along with
 Ph> that...still having problems with TG/2 taking the strings to connect from
 Ph> SGMail.

I've never really used OS/2 or SGMail so I don't have much to offer in the
way of advice.  I'm using netfossil & Net2BBS in Windows 10 32bit and it
seems to do the job.

Net2BBS is the telnet server and when it receives a connection it just runs
netfossil & passes the connection to Telegard:

c:\tg\nf\nf.bat /n*N /h*H c:\tg\telegard.exe -B115200 -N*N -Q

I have 3 nodes configured in Telegard, each with the modem configs as COM1,
COM2 or COM3 and all of them IRQ0 w/ base I/O address.

About the only thing I had to change was setting the hangup string to ATH0 &
set Hangup w/DTR Toggle to No, otherwise when a user logged off the node
seemed to hang.  With these two settings it disconnected and recycled the
node almost immediately.

 Ph> In terms of netmail...have it set up as a JAM base...but told FE under
 Ph> System/FEUtil Parameters to set "Include USERS.BBS" to "NO".

Yeah, I found those settings early on.  I was posting test echomail messages
and FE seemed to ignore all of them until I switched that to No.

 Ph> For FE...here's what I got for FE:
 Ph> fastecho toss

For me fastecho toss would do all of the echomail and then put netmail into
another message base.  I had to also run:

fastecho pack

To pack the netmail which then tosses it into the C:\tg\echomail\out folder
into a .PKT for binkd to send.

 Ph> feutil import

And yes, feutil import will then take the netmail from that separate message
base and put it back into the JAM base where I would expect them to go.

Going through all of this again REALLY makes me appreciate how easy Mystic
makes all of this.

 Ph> From there...am at a loss on the proper string to pass to TG/2 & make
 Ph> SGMail restart itself after running FE. Just heads back to the folder &
 Ph> a command prompt.

I'm not familiar with OS/2, does it use .BAT files?

I seem to remember using GOTO commands with Frontdoor all those years ago:

e.g:

@ECHO OFF
SET TELEGARD=C:\TG
SET TASK=1

:START

C:
CD \FD
frontdoor.exe /stuff /goes /here

IF ERRORLEVEL 34 GOTO BBS

:BBS
C:
CD \TG
TELEGARD.EXE -B115200 -N1 -Q
GOTO START

Again, I don't know if OS/2 uses batch files, or if SGMail works the same, so
maybe barking up the wrong tree.

Jay

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