Ok, so you've managed to pull out all of the hairs in your head? Can't get your fidonet mail working with your Adept BBS? Welp, bald as I may be now, I am on the way to recovery as I am now pulling in several hundred messages a day. HOWEVER, I intend to let all brand new sysops in on what I did STEP by STEP. 1) Goto Config->Active Line->Mailer Settings -- Fill in this information Phone # (your phone number) BPS Rate (your max rate your modem handles) Flags (like V32B,V42B) Costs (I put zeros) Errors 200 resyncs and 0 transfer errors Mail Proc CMD cmd.exe /c mail.cmd %s Select Version 7 nodelist 2) Goto Config->Active Line->Addresses -- This information is YOUR address For me: 1:208/613.0@FIDONET Initially your hub may ask you for a fake address to send netmail. In my area, I had to pass a little initiation by successfully sending him a netmail message. Once this was done, I then submitted an application to the regional hub for a node address. This was what I received and put it here. Initially, I used 1:3/4.0@FIDONET between me and my hub as my fake address. Work this one out with your hub first! 3) Goto Config->BBS->General Settings Max Msgs Per Mail Packet: 1500 (your pref) Max. Echo/Netmail Cost: 0 (your pref) System Name: The Alternate Reality SysOp Name: Christopher Johnson Origin Line: The Alternate Reality! * AdeptXBBS * 28.8 * (1:208/613.0) QWK BBS ID: ALTREAL (your pref) 4) Goto Config->BBS->New User Defaults Insure you give credits on the safe side. I put 100 5) Goto Edit->Message Areas Create each Echomail area. Select Force Public, Compression, and Require Real Name Path (for me) D:\ADEPT\MESSAGE_BASES IMPORTANT!!!-> Put YOUR address in ADDR! ADDR:1:xxx/xxx.0@Fidonet If you do not do this, you will be kicked out to your message menu after trying to input a mesage! 6) Next thing you need to do is configure your Gatekpr.ctl. --- Gatekpr.ctl INBOUND D:\ADEPT\MAILER\PASSWORD_Inbound_Mail INBOUND D:\ADEPT\MAILER\PUBLIC_Inbound_Mail INBOUND D:\ADEPT\MAILER\UNLISTED_Inbound_Mail OUTBOUND D:\ADEPT\MAILER\OUTBOUND_MAIL MSGDIR D:\ADEPT\MESSAGE_BASES MAXDUPES 1024 KEEPDUPES ; This is my address here. YOUR address goes here! ADDRESS 1:208/613.0@Fidonet NETAREA 99 LOGFILE GateKpr.Log PACKSIZE 65535 ; My hub use ARC so I went with arc for compatibility! ; Insure your archivers file is setup correctly! UNARCHIVE ARC.EXE ewn ARCHIVE ARC.EXE mwn ;UNARCHIVE UNZIP.EXE -Cjn ;ARCHIVE ZIP.EXE -m -j ;NODUPES AREAFILE Area.Control ROUTE 1.*.*.*.* CRASH 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ARC.EXE mwn ROUTE 2.*.*.*.* CRASH 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ARC.EXE mwn ROUTE 3.*.*.*.* CRASH 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ARC.EXE mwn ROUTE 4.*.*.*.* CRASH 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ARC.EXE mwn ROUTE 5.*.*.*.* CRASH 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ARC.EXE mwn ROUTE 6.*.*.*.* CRASH 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ARC.EXE mwn ^^^^^ This routing sends my CRASH mail straight to my hub. Insure that you have the correct archiver you want! ZIP and UNZIP should work fine for most--my hub is an AMIGA system and he uses ARC so I use it too. (Makes sense right?) 7) Next insure that your area.control file is setup! --- Area.Control ECHO OS2 30 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ECHO OS2BBS 31 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ECHO OS2DOS 32 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ECHO OS2DOSBBS 33 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ECHO OS2HW 34 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ECHO OS2PROG 35 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ECHO OS-DEBATE 36 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ECHO VALLEY4SALE 40 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ECHO FOR-SALE 41 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ECHO NET208 50 1:208/601.0@Fidonet ^^^^^ Insure the echo conference name is exact and matches the message area designated in your edit->Messages setup. Important! If your mail does not toss correctly, it could be because the address in this file does not match the sending address received in your packet! When I received my packet, I quickly copied it to a temp directly for testing purposes in case it tossed wrong. I systematically found out that my hub sends its mail as 1:208/601.0@Fidonet. However, his main address is 600.0. Originally I had the above line as 600.0 and the mail would not toss. Lesson learned! After some retossing, I put 2 and 2 together. 8) Next insure that your archivers file is setup correctly! Here is mine for reference: ;This entry is for ZIP 1.9/UNZIP 5.0 (available in 32-bit versions) ;Move these lines ahead of PK(UN)Zip above to make this the "preferred" ;archiver for Zip archives. ;NOTE: ZIP 1.9 has a bug in ZIP.EXE -j that sometimes flairs up ;with AV's build command (internal logic error). Probably best to ;stick with PKZIP until they get it fixed. ; Zip/UnZip 1.9/5.0 ZIP 0 UNZIP.EXE -lU UNZIP.EXE -ojC UNZIP.EXE -oC UNZIP.EXE -t ZIP.EXE -j ZIP.EXE -mj ZIP.EXE -d PK\x3\x4 ------ ---- ---- ---- ------ ------- 0 -1 1 2 3 Z ;This entry is for Zoo 2.1 ; Zoo 2.1 ZOO 20 ZOO.EXE v ZOO.EXE xO ZOO.EXE xO/ ZOO.EXE -test ZOO.Exe ah: ZOO.EXE ah ZOO.EXE aM:h ZOO.EXE aMh ZOO.EXE -delete \xdc\xa7\xc4\xfd -------- --- -------- --------- -------- -------- --- -------- --------- -------- 0 2 3 3 7 O ; ;This entry is for LH2 2.11 ; LHarc 2.11 LZH 2 LH.EXE /o l LH.EXE /o x LH.EXE /o /s x LH.EXE t LH.EXE /o a LH.EXE /o /s a LH.EXE /o m LH.EXE /o d -lh -------- -------- ----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------------------- 0 -1 1 1 2 L ; ;This entry is for PKZIP 1.01 ; PK(Un)Zip 1.01 ZIP 0 PKZIP.EXE -v PKUNZIP.EXE -o PKUNZIP.EXE -o -d PKUNZIP.EXE -t PKZIP.EXE -a PKZIP.EXE -a -P PKZIP.EXE -a -p -r PKZIP.EXE -m PKZIP.EXE -m -P PKZIP.EXE -d PK\x3\x4 ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ---- ------ ------ --- ------- 0 2 4 2 8 P ; ;This entry is for ARC.EXE ;================= ======== ========= ; ==== ======== ARC ARC 0 ARC.EXE l ARC.EXE e ARC.EXE t ARC.EXE a ARC.EXE m ARC.EXE d \x1a ================= ======== ========= ==== ======== 1 -1 2 3 0 A ; ;always end file with blank line or comment [A lot deleted to reduce message length!] 9) You must also download from your hub the latest nodelist! I use QNODE as my compiler. Edit the QNODE.CFG to your information. Remember that the address is YOURS! 10) The only place that your hub address goes in is the Routing in the Gatekpr.ctl and in the Area.Control echo statements. OK! Now that we have this setup. Troubleshoot Troubleshoot Troubleshoot!!! I hope I have reached a lot of people and that I may have solved some problems. I find Adept a great BBS and my donations are rolling in after only 8 days. Why? The most common comment I get is that it is so fast! (also, my ANSI is simple and professional looking) If you have any questions, netmail Christopher Johnson at 1:208/613.0@Fidonet or put it into the public domain for the benefit of all. Respectfully, Christopher Johnson If I REALLY made your day, Mail .25 cents to Chris Johnson 2240 Cascade Drive Atwater, CA 95301