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|    FE_HELP    |    The FastEcho Mailprocessor Support Confe    |    381 messages    |
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|    mark lewis to Eric Renfro    |
|    One entry point, multiple destination po    |
|    16 Sep 15 21:04:02    |
      16 Sep 15 10:21, you wrote to All:               ER> Alrighty. It's been ages since I've used FastEcho, and though I'm not        ER> personally using it, instead trying to help someone else whom already        ER> has it use it, whom is not very savvy with it all.              ok...               ER> Here's the situation. One of my downlinks wants to setup their IRex        ER> and FastEcho on thheir system to receive mail, one from me, one from        ER> another link.              should be a pretty standard setup...               ER> They run multiple BBS systems at the same time using some telnet2bbs        ER> link tool of some kind, I'm not entirely sure about that, but their        ER> BBS's support includes JAM message bases so..              ok... hummm... are they sharing the same JAM bases between those BBSes?? do       they all use the same FTN address? if not then they will need a FE setup for       each BBS instance... even if they are all on the same machine... that means       either copying packets destined for the others to their inbounds or using some       mailer to send to them as normal... i have 4 or 5 systems here all using their       own mailers for this but they all also have their own FTN addresses as       required...               ER> Can anyone help me come up with a reasonably logical idea of how to        ER> set up this link to receive mail from me and internally relay it to        ER> several point point nodes for their multiple BBS systems they have        ER> running?              other than the above ""hints"" for multiple BBSes behind one IP, the setup       should be no different than any other distribution hub system... the specific       points being that each system has its own FTN address (full node or points)       and that there is a proper entry in the nodelist pointing to each domain       and/or IP address...              )\/(ark              ... We have no need for ancient ways, our world is doing fine.: Rush       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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