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IFTOSS(8)		    System Manager's Manual		     IFTOSS(8)

NAME
       iftoss -	Convert	Fidonet	FTN packets to RFC-822 and RFC-1036 mail/news.

Synopsis
       iftoss [-h]  [-N]  [-x verbosity]  [-I file]

Description
       Iftoss  converts	 Fidonet netmail packets into RFC-822 internet mail or
       RFC-1036	Usenet News.  It expects a non-arcmail	packet	on  stdin  and
       passes  converted  mail messages	and/or generated newsbatch to sendmail
       and/or rnews.  If you specify -N, resultant  messages/newsbatches  will
       go  to  the  directory  "/tmp/ifmail"  instead  of  being  fed to send-
       mail/rnews.

       Ifmail and iftoss programs try to preserve as much information as  pos-
       sible  in "X-FTN-..." headers and "^ARFC-..." kludges, and restore mes-
       sages more or less accurately to	their original form when  double-gate-
       waying.

       If  you make a system mail alias	file accessible	to the iftoss program,
       it makes	attempt	to "backward resolve" the "from" addresses,  that  is,
       if  the	originating  address  of the FidoNet message matches the right
       side of some mail  alias,  the  "Reply-To:"  header  of	the  generated
       mail/news message will contain "alias@your.domain.name" address.

       Message	IDs are	converted as follows: "^AMSGID:	<address> <hexnum>" is
       converted to "<decimalnum>@<address>". If there was no MSGID in the fi-
       donet message, messageid	of the form <creation-time>@<from-address>  is
       generated,  so  that when a single message is gatewayed in several dis-
       tinct places, it	will have the same messageid anyway (for some (little)
       risk of having two different messages with the same messageid).	RFC822
       Message-IDs  are	 converted  back  when they can	be, otherwise the mes-
       sageid "<local>@<domain>" is converted to "^AMSGID <domain>  crc32(<lo-
       cal>)".	 When an RFC message is	split, unique MSGIDs are generated for
       all parts after the first one. In any case, the original	 "Message-ID:"
       header  is  preserved in	the "^ARFC-Message-ID:"	kludge and used	if the
       message comes back to usenet on some (other) gateway.

OPTIONS
       -h
       Display a short help message.

       -N
       Put resutant messages/newsbatch to /tmp/ifmail,	do  not	 invoke	 send-
       mail/rnews.

       -x verbosity
       Set the debug verbosity.	 verbosity may be a number from	0 to 32	to set
       'on'  bits  from	1 to number, or	a string of letters where 'a' =	bit 1,
       'b' = bit 2, etc. up to bit 26.

       -I File
       Use the alternate configuration file File.

FILES
       $IFLIBDIR/config	     Runtime configuration file.

SEE ALSO
       ifcico(8), ifpack(8), ifunpack(8), ifmail(8)

Acknowledgements
       Some ideas taken	from Fidogate/RFmail package, written by  Teemu	 Torma
       and  hacked  by	Martin	Junius.	 Some modeules taken from INN package.
       Thanks to Michael Bravo <mbravo@tctube.spb.su> (who was the first)  and
       many others for testing.

       1993, 1994 Eugene Crosser

       This is free software. You can do what you wish with it as long as this
       copyright notice	is preserved.

4th Berkeley Distribution					     IFTOSS(8)

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