I have a question on getting squish to use a few points for my system. First I will tell you what I'm useing and what versions. I'm useing Squish 1.11 (DOS version). I'm also useing Seal 0.50. What I'm trying to do is gate some echos. I'm useing Blackhole as my gateing software. I setup a .1 and a .2 for my points for the echos that I wanted to gate. I'm not useing an areas.bbs file because I put all my echo information in my squish.cfg file. Here is one of the echo lines in my squish.cfg.

EchoArea Z_ADS D:\RENEGADE\ECHOMAIL\Z_ADS -p92:606/0 92:606/0.2
606/0.1 318/0 401/0 405/0

Here is what I put in my route.cfg file for those.

Send Direct NoArc 92:606/0.1
Send Direct NoArc 92:606/0.2

Squish isn't scaning messages out to my points when I recieve messages to that echo. It will scan messages out to my points only if a message is posted on my system in that echo. Anyone have any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, or how to get it to work? Thanks in advance for any help I may get.

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Excuse late answer, please ...

gate some echos. I'm useing Blackhole as my gateing software.

Not that good. You will come in trouble with some large feeds when running this
software. I used it years ago to gate from/to MxBBSNet (zone 256) and some privat nets. AFAIR it doesn't introduce a new msgid for gated messages. As a result those messages will be identified as dupes with almost any tosser except
Squish.

I setup a .1 and a .2 for my points for the echos that I wanted to
gate

EchoArea Z_ADS D:\RENEGADE\ECHOMAIL\Z_ADS -p92:606/0 92:606/0.2
606/0.1 318/0 401/0 405/0

You need to setup two different echoes. See later.

my route.cfg file for those.

Send Direct NoArc 92:606/0.1
Send Direct NoArc 92:606/0.2

hm.

Your route.cfg should not include noarc, direct flavor is recommendable.

Here the way I did it (and still run such a gate but not with blackhole).

I introduced a new archiver for Squish and used movepkt.exe (AFAIR included in blackhole package) to move packets for those "gate points" into specific inbounds.


compress.cfg:
; Gateway FIDO <-> MxBBSNet
Archiver GFM
Ident 0,777777
OS2 Add c:\bbs\bhole\movpkt2 H:\out\fidomx %a %f
end archiver

squish.cfg:
Pack GFM 2:2476/14.989
Pack GFM 256:256/4.989

; example for one echo without further links listed
EchoArea MUFFIN G:\mail\fido\MUFFIN -$m100 -$d200 2:24/903 2:2476.989
EchoArea MUFFIN.256 G:\mail\mxbbs\muffin2 -p256:256/4.0 -$ 256:256/4.989

Ensure to have your nodes included in your forwardfrom / forwardto statements.

For blackhole I used following cfg:

==== Begin import fidomx.cfg ====
Aka_1 2:2476/14.989@fidonet
Origin_1 FidoNet <-> MxBBSNet EchoGate I
;
Aka_2 256:256/4.989@MxBBSNet
Origin_2 MxBBSNet <-> FidoNet EchoGate I
;
; This is the path to your netmail area.
;
NetMail F:\mail\Net
;
; This is the path to you inbound packet(s) area:
;
In_Pkt D:\in
;
; This is the path to your outbound packet(s) area:
;
Out_Pkt H:\Out\fidomx\
;
Areas
MAXIMUS.MEX.GER MAXIMUS.MEX.GER.256
CANTALOUP.GER CANTALOUP.GER.256
FLEETBETA FLEETBETA.256
BTEEBETA BTEEBETA.256
APWORKS APWORKS.256
ARTWARE ARTWARE.256
MAXDEV MAXDEV.256
MECCA MECCA.256
MUFFIN MUFFIN.256
TUB TUB.256
SQED32.GER SQED32.256
;
==== End imported file ====

Hope to not to be too late and that those hints are of help for you. :-)

cu, Dieter

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* Origin: Wndos s god fr cmnicaton (2:2476/14)

Excuse late answer, please ...

gate some echos. I'm useing Blackhole as my gateing software.

Not that good. You will come in trouble with some large feeds when running this
software. I used it years ago to gate from/to MxBBSNet (zone 256) and some privat nets. AFAIR it doesn't introduce a new msgid for gated messages. As a result those messages will be identified as dupes with almost any tosser except
Squish when a system carries both echoes.

I setup a .1 and a .2 for my points for the echos that I wanted to
gate

EchoArea Z_ADS D:\RENEGADE\ECHOMAIL\Z_ADS -p92:606/0 92:606/0.2
606/0.1 318/0 401/0 405/0

You need to setup two different echoes. See later.

my route.cfg file for those.

Send Direct NoArc 92:606/0.1
Send Direct NoArc 92:606/0.2

hm.

Your route.cfg should not include noarc, direct flavor is recommendable.

Here the way I did it (and still run such a gate but not with blackhole).

I introduced a new archiver for Squish and used movepkt.exe (AFAIR included in blackhole package) to move packets for those "gate points" into specific inbounds.


compress.cfg:
; Gateway FIDO <-> MxBBSNet
Archiver GFM
Ident 0,777777
OS2 Add c:\bbs\bhole\movpkt2 H:\out\fidomx %a %f
end archiver

squish.cfg:
Pack GFM 2:2476/14.989
Pack GFM 256:256/4.989

; example for one echo without further links listed
EchoArea MUFFIN G:\mail\fido\MUFFIN -$m100 -$d200 2:24/903 2:2476.989
EchoArea MUFFIN.256 G:\mail\mxbbs\muffin2 -p256:256/4.0 -$ 256:256/4.989

Ensure to have your nodes included in your forwardfrom / forwardto statements.

For blackhole I used following cfg:

==== Begin import fidomx.cfg ====
Aka_1 2:2476/14.989@fidonet
Origin_1 FidoNet <-> MxBBSNet EchoGate I
;
Aka_2 256:256/4.989@MxBBSNet
Origin_2 MxBBSNet <-> FidoNet EchoGate I
;
; This is the path to your netmail area.
;
NetMail F:\mail\Net
;
; This is the path to you inbound packet(s) area:
;
In_Pkt D:\in
;
; This is the path to your outbound packet(s) area:
;
Out_Pkt H:\Out\fidomx\
;
Areas
MAXIMUS.MEX.GER MAXIMUS.MEX.GER.256
CANTALOUP.GER CANTALOUP.GER.256
FLEETBETA FLEETBETA.256
BTEEBETA BTEEBETA.256
APWORKS APWORKS.256
ARTWARE ARTWARE.256
MAXDEV MAXDEV.256
MECCA MECCA.256
MUFFIN MUFFIN.256
TUB TUB.256
SQED32.GER SQED32.256
;
==== End imported file ====

Hope to not to be too late and that those hints are of help for you. :-)

cu, Dieter

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* Origin: Wndos s god fr cmnicaton (2:2476/14)