Subj : Fast Echo and two BBSs
To : Bill Gordon
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Feb 16 2012 12:13 pm
BG> I'm using a BBS software that has it's own built in mail/tosser,
BG> and I'd like to use another BBS software as a point. How do I set
BG> up FastEcho to work with the existing BBS software?
hunh?
i /think/ you are saying that you have one bbs with an internal tosser and you
are wanting to set up another bbs as a point and use FE on this point system...
is this correct?
if so, there is nothing to do in FE concerning the existing bbs with builtin
tosser... FE doesn't care about it at all... think straight down the line and
you'll see why... FE only cares about its inbound, outbound directories and
where to toss/scan the mail to/from...
hint: you're existing system would create mail bundles and pkts for the new
point then your processing .bat file (or whatever) would move only the stuff
for the point to the point's inbound directory... at some point in time, the
point's stuff would then process its inbound mail...
you'd have the same thing for outbound from the point... it would generate the
outbound mail bundles and pkts which would then need to be moved to your
existing system's inbound for processing...
the above is assuming you are going to be doing this all on one physical
machine and don't want to have to use a mailer to talk to the other system but
that can also be done under the right circumstances instead of the physical
moving of the files... of course, if you are going to do this on two machines,
then a mailer is the better way unless you have drives mapped across the
network but that can get sticky at times...
