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  • Hello, and sorry.

    From joseph larsen@1:340/800 to All on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 20:28:04
    I'm sure you've all witnessed my troubles with duping messages that were inteded to go to AgoraNet, but went to FidoNet instead. I'm sorry.

    The problem is, i'm testing out the "Squish" mail tosser for DOS ("Squish" is the name of it), and i'm not too familiar with it. I'm more familiar with HPT or some other tossers. Does anyone use Squish? If so, would you mind looking
    at a few configuration files? I'd be most thankful. I think i've made
    progress with getting IMP-MAIL working. What I did, was create two BOARDS.DAT files. One lowercase and one uppercase. So, the board itself sees the
    lowercase file, while the tosser sees the uppercase one. And it appears to be working. No more corrupted BOARD.DAT file. :) Btw, this is all part of my effort in porting Impulse BBS to Linux. This step (getting FTN working) would eventually happen regardless. Anyway, yeah, that's my situation. Thanks for your time.

    |09ignatius |07[|15cia|07]

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A4 (Linux)
    * Origin: catch22bbs.com >>> >> > (1:340/800)
  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to joseph larsen on Thursday, February 25, 2016 09:10:34
    On 02/24/16, joseph larsen said the following...

    The problem is, i'm testing out the "Squish" mail tosser for DOS
    ("Squish" is the name of it), and i'm not too familiar with it. I'm more familiar with HPT or some other tossers. Does anyone use Squish? If so, would you mind looking at a few configuration files? I'd be most
    thankful.

    I haven't used squish in many years but I'm sure I could still navigate a squish.cfg.

    If you have questions you can feel free to post them or netmail them to me along with your squish.cfg is you'd like me to have a look.

    There is also the TUB echo. It's not that busy these days but there may still be some squish users in there.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A5 (Linux)
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)
  • From joseph larsen@1:340/800 to Alan Ianson on Thursday, February 25, 2016 15:05:56
    |01 ▄▄█▓▀▀▌▀▀▀ ░▀ ░|CR▓▀ quoting |09Alan Ianson |01on |0902/25/16 |07

    If you have questions you can feel free to post them or netmail them to
    me along with your squish.cfg is you'd like me to have a look.

    Awesome. What's your e-mail address?

    Thanks,

    |09ignatius |07[|15cia|07]

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A5 (Linux)
    * Origin: catch22bbs.com >>> >> > (1:340/800)
  • From joseph larsen@1:340/800 to Alan Ianson on Friday, February 26, 2016 00:50:35
    |01 ▄▄█▓▀▀▌▀▀▀ ░▀ ░|CR▓▀ quoting |09Alan Ianson |01on |0902/25/16 |07

    If you have questions you can feel free to post them or netmail them to
    me along with your squish.cfg is you'd like me to have a look.


    I sent you a netmail. Did you get it?

    Thanks,

    |09ignatius |07[|15cia|07]

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A5 (Linux)
    * Origin: catch22bbs.com >>> >> > (1:340/800)
  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to joseph larsen on Friday, February 26, 2016 07:24:27
    Re: Re: Hello, and sorry.
    By: joseph larsen to Alan Ianson on Fri Feb 26 2016 12:50 am

    If you have questions you can feel free to post them or netmail them to me along with your squish.cfg is you'd like me to have a look.


    I sent you a netmail. Did you get it?

    Yes, I did. What kind of problems are you having? You can netmail your questions if you prefer.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al
    --- SBBSecho 2.33-Linux
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada - trmb.ca (1:153/757)
  • From joseph larsen@1:340/800 to Alan Ianson on Friday, February 26, 2016 18:37:42
    |01 ▄▄█▓▀▀▌▀▀▀ ░▀ ░|CR▓▀ quoting |09Alan Ianson |01on |0902/26/16 |07

    Yes, I did. What kind of problems are you having? You can netmail your questions if you prefer.


    Messages that I send to AgoraNet get duped to FidoNet. :/

    Thanks,

    |09ignatius |07[|15cia|07]

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A5 (Linux)
    * Origin: catch22bbs.com >>> >> > (1:340/800)
  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to joseph larsen on Saturday, February 27, 2016 20:39:43
    Re: Re: Hello, and sorry.
    By: joseph larsen to Alan Ianson on Fri Feb 26 2016 06:37 pm

    Yes, I did. What kind of problems are you having? You can netmail
    your questions if you prefer.

    Messages that I send to AgoraNet get duped to FidoNet. :/

    I've been looking at your config and I see that the fido and agoranet areas are in different directories so I think that is good

    I think you need to add "-p46:1/124" to your agoranet areas since they use a different address than the default, I don't think you need that for the fido areas but you do for your othernets.

    Your AGN_GEN area would look like this..

    EchoArea AGN_GEN c:\home\imp\imp\msgs\agora\agn_gen\ -f -p46:1/124 46:1/100

    Try that and see if it makes a difference, and let me know if that is successfull or if we need more work.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

    ... Love is grand. Divorce is fifty grand.
    --- SBBSecho 2.33-Linux
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada - trmb.ca (1:153/757)
  • From joseph larsen@1:340/800 to Alan Ianson on Saturday, February 27, 2016 21:31:58
    |01 ▄▄█▓▀▀▌▀▀▀ ░▀ ░|CR▓▀ quoting |09Alan Ianson |01on |0902/27/16 |07

    I think you need to add "-p46:1/124" to your agoranet areas since they
    use a different address than the default, I don't think you need that
    for the fido areas but you do for your othernets.

    Awesome. Thank you. I will try this out ASAP.

    Thanks,

    |09ignatius |07[|15cia|07]

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A5 (Linux)
    * Origin: catch22bbs.com >>> >> > (1:340/800)
  • From joseph larsen@1:340/800 to joseph larsen on Monday, February 29, 2016 03:30:06
    |01 ▄▄█▓▀▀▌▀▀▀ ░▀ ░|CR▓▀ quoting |09joseph larsen |01on |0902/27/16 |07

    Awesome. Thank you. I will try this out ASAP.


    Ok. It works fine. But, I discovered something. IMP-MAIL doesn't care which tosser you use. Squish is just the default, that's set in the IMP-MAIL.CFG file. See, IMP-MAIL simply converts the MSG-styled packets into a propietary format (*.BRD and *.MIX files) and writes them to disk. I am able to successfully use another tosser, HPT in this case, and it works fine. The
    only problem I am having, is garbled message headers. I suspect the code is at fault. I recently discovered that Impulse borrowed A LOT of code from Telegard. I guess, as a lot of BBS softwares have. Impulse doesn't seem able to put the Subject, To and From in the right places. And in some cases, not even the message base that's being posted to. Since it (at default) uses Squish, I
    tried using the "Squish" format, to see if that would solve this problem, but no luck. I have to use the MSG format. :(

    Anyway, just a head's up.

    Thanks,

    |09ignatius |07[|15cia|07]

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