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4.4.2 How to configure MsgEd TE to use an Internet Gateway

In order to do the gateway addressing stuff for you, MsgEd TE needs to know which gateway you wish to use for sending e-mail. MsgEd TE will recognise gated e-mail no matter which gate it comes from, but it must be told which gateway can be used to send replies and new e-mail, because most gateways require that you pay some sort of registration fee before you can use them for sending mail.

The UUCP keyword is used to tell MsgEd TE the node number of your internet gateway (see The UUCP Keyword). It simply takes this node numer as argument. Example:

UUCP 242:4900/99.0

The UucpName keyword is used to tell MsgEd TE the name that must be in the receiver’s name field in a netmail sent to the gateway. For older gateways, you should use

UucpName UUCP

If your gateway is running Fidogate or another more advanced gateway program, you should use

UucpName *

This enables real name mode, i.E., mail addressed to the gateway will have the real name of the receiver in the receiver’s name field instead of the pseudo name ‘UUCP’. The advantage of this is that your message templates will generate strings like ‘Hello Joe!’ instead of ‘Hello UUCP!’ …

If you want to insert Reply-To lines into outgoing mail, and if your gateway supports them, of course, you might also wish to use the ‘UucpReplyTo’ keyword. Reply-To lines are used to tell the receiver’s software that replys should be directed to an alternative e-mail account instead of the one you are mailing from. See The UucpReplyTo Keyword, for more information.

There is yet another task to be done before you can use the gateway addressing features of MsgEd TE. For historical reasons, the gateway addressing features are disabled by default, and you have to enable them on a per-area basis.

Unless you have special needs, it is best to enable the gateway addressing features for all areas, because a lot of fidonet areas are gated to internet somewhere. You do this by adding the ‘u’ flag to every area that you have manually defined in the MsgEd TE configuration file, and by specifying AreaFileFlags u at the beginning of the configuration file in order to set the ‘u’ flag for all area definitions that are imported from your tosser configuration file. See Defining Message Areas, for more information on message area flags.


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