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    From sysop@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to All on Saturday, June 06, 2015 17:53:00
    hi everyone just a question for fellow sysops out there, for fidonet do you really need any external programs? i checked my docs for synchronet 3.16 and it says sbbsecho program does it all
    i set it up like docs say and tried a cpl times to send a mail to my coordinator so i could get a node number how do i know if its working?
    also if i try to set up any third party tossers they seem to wreck my message base even if i follow complete synchronet step by step procedures for those programs.
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  • From Al@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to sysop on Sunday, June 07, 2015 10:46:00
    On 06/07/15, sysop said the following...

    hi everyone just a question for fellow sysops out there, for fidonet do you really need any external programs? i checked my docs for synchronet 3.16 and it says sbbsecho program does it all

    It does, and I would be very carefull about letting anything else mess with your SMB message bases. I'm not aware of any other apps that support it,
    aside from golded+ for reading/writing messages.

    i set it up like docs say and tried a cpl times to send a mail to my coordinator so i could get a node number how do i know if its working?

    Do you want to netmail your coordinator? Use the email area and send a
    message to someone@1:111/111, use their address of course.

    also if i try to set up any third party tossers they seem to wreck my message base even if i follow complete synchronet step by step
    procedures for those programs.

    I wouldn't do that. Synchronet has it's own (SMB) message base format so I wouldn't use anything but Synchronet tools with it.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Dribble@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to sysop on Sunday, June 07, 2015 14:01:00
    Re: fido
    By: sysop to All on Sat Jun 06 2015 05:53 pm

    hi everyone just a question for fellow sysops out there, for fidonet do you really need any external programs? i checked my docs for synchronet 3.16 and it says sbbsecho program does it all
    i set it up like docs say and tried a cpl times to send a mail to my coordinator so i could get a node number how do i know if its working?

    you need something to receive the packets, personally I use irex 2

    |08% |15Dribble|08 [|15ACiDiC/nRk|08]|07

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  • From sysop@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to Dribble on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 19:45:00
    Re: fido
    By: Dribble to sysop on Sun Jun 07 2015 14:01:05

    Re: fido
    By: sysop to All on Sat Jun 06 2015 05:53 pm

    hi everyone just a question for fellow sysops out there, for fidonet do you really need any external programs? i checked my docs for synchronet 3.16 and it says sbbsecho program does it all
    i set it up like docs say and tried a cpl times to send a mail to my coordinator so i could get a node number how do i know if its working?

    you need something to receive the packets, personally I use irex 2

    |08% |15Dribble|08 [|15ACiDiC/nRk|08]|07

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    yep got that far anyway got bink up and running and now have my node number, i just applied on fidonet for feeds so when my number shows up on friday i should be rockin a fido echo site
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  • From kk4qbn@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to sysop on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 20:36:00
    Re: fido
    By: sysop to All on Sat Jun 06 2015 05:53 pm

    hi everyone just a question for fellow sysops out there, for fidonet do you really need any external programs? i checked my docs for synchronet 3.16
    and it says sbbsecho program does it all
    i set it up like docs say and tried a cpl times to send a mail to my coordinator so i could get a node number how do i know if its working?
    also if i try to set up any third party tossers they seem to wreck my message base even if i follow complete synchronet step by step procedures for those programs.

    You will also need a program like IREX or Argus to send/receive the packets.

    FYI, you might want to change your handle to something other than Sysop.




    Best Regards,

    Tim

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  • From ROBERT WOLFE@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to ROBERT WOLFE on Friday, June 12, 2015 07:04:00
    hi everyone just a question for fellow sysops out there, for fidonet do you really need any external programs? i checked my docs for synchronet 3.16 and
    says sbbsecho program does it all
    i set it up like docs say and tried a cpl times to send a mail to my coordinator so i could get a node number how do i know if its working?
    also if i try to set up any third party tossers they seem to wreck my messag
    base even if i follow complete synchronet step by step procedures for those programs.

    First, you might want to change your user name. Second, SBBSECHO does
    NOT handle the actual transport of the mail packets -- you still need something like Argus or Internet Rex to do that. Also, SBBSECHO does
    NOT handle the processing of TIC files. You will need something like
    Allfix! to do that.

    Who is your NC by the way?

    ... I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
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