Fido-Point-HOWTO

Roland Rosenfeld, roland@spinnaker.rhein.de, 2:2450/42 translated into the english by Oliver Much, Armageddon@icemans.ndh.com, 2:2453/690.12

1. Where to get the latest version of this HOWTO

2. Programs we'll need

• 2.1 FidoGate
• 2.2 ifcico
• 2.3 News-Transport-Agent (NTA)
• 2.4 Mail-Transport-Agent (MTA)
• 2.5 newspack
• 2.6 Newsreader
• 2.7 Mailreader
• 2.8 Packers
• 2.9 TIC-processor

3. Further documentation

4. My example configuration

5. Permissions

6. Installation of FidoGate

7. The installation of ifcico

8. Nodelist-compiler

9. Poll-script and Unpacking

10. The configuration of smail

11. Configuration of Sendmail V8

12. cnews-configuration

13. INN-configuration

14. News/Echomail reading and writing

15. Mail/Netmail reading and writing

16. Requesting files

17. Troubleshooting

• 17.1 Mail is not processed
• 17.2 News are not processed

18. Credits