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 sendmail/rnews.

       Ifmail and iftoss programs try to preserve as much information as possible  in  "X-FTN-..."  headers  and
       "^ARFC-..."  kludges,  and  restore  messages more or less accurately to their original form when double-
       gatewaying.

       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 fidonet message, messageid of the form  <creation-
       time>@<from-address> is generated, so that when a single message is gatewayed in several distinct 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 messageid
       "<local>@<domain>" is converted to "^AMSGID <domain> crc32(<local>)".  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 sendmail/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.