Internet Mail Handling on 1:13/10 ================================= 1:13/10 does NOT interact with its smart-host/server via UUCP, but by MOVING the queued files between the PC and the server using a product from Sun Microsystems known as PC-NFS. Since the PC has an Ethernet card and is located on the same Ethernet as the UNIX server we are able to "mount" directories from the servers as drives on the PC. Because of this feature, we are able to handle the enormous amounts of E-mail which are being handled by this system at speeds clocked at 8-Mb per second. However, we have to operate using very NON-STANDARD methods and have heavily modified our batch files and scripts to accomodate this. OUTGOING Mail (to the Internet): ------------------------------- Messages *must* be addressed to 1:13/10 and either have the UserName "Uucp" in the FidoNet-Header with the Internet destination in a "To: address" line as the very FIRST line of the message; -or- have the Internet destination as the UserName field, complete with the '@' sign. (For more specific details, F'req magic-name UUCPHELP from 1:13/10 Mail is processed using GIGO. The resulting queued files are *moved* to the smart-host/server via PC-NFS where they are fed to the mail handler by a script. INCOMING Mail (from the Internet): --------------------------------- The mail which is queued on the smart-host/server is prepared by a script which renames the files to the MS-DOS filenames as if they were received by Waffle's 'uucico'. It is then *moved* to the PC side of the gateway over a "mounted" link to the server's directories. The mail is then gated by GIGO. Mail coming inbound from the Internet for systems REGISTERED to use the Gateway are put on *HOLD* for pickup. NO MAIL WILL BE ROUTED! Mail TO or FROM *UnListed* Nodes -------------------------------- All Mail either FROM or TO an UnListed FidoNet address is simply *DELETED*. Burt Juda postmaster ############################### eof ##################################