ÖÄÄÒÄÄ¿ Ò Â ÒÄÄ¿ ÒÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ÒÄÄ¿ ÒÄÄ¿ Ò Ú Ò Â ÖÄÄ¿ Ò ÒÄÄ¿ º ÇÄÄ´ ÇÄ º ³ ÇÄ ÇÄ ÇÄÁ¿ º ³ º ³ º ÇÄ º Ð Á ÐÄÄÙ ÇÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÐÄÄÙ ÐÄÄÙ Ð Á ÇÄÄÄÄÄ´ ÓÄÄÙ ÐÄÄÙ ÐÄÄÙ º º ÒÄ¿ ÒÄ¿ ÖÄ¿ º ³ Ð Ð ÇÄÁ¿ ÇÄÁ¿ ÓÄ¿ Ð Á ÐÄÄÙ ÐÄÄÙ ÓÄÄÙ Running Proboard v2.01 with 8 CD-Roms, Multi-Lines, all 28800 baud Modems! 3+ Gigs of Hard Drive! Many Door Games! (615)758-4288 Fidonet 1:116/145 Ournet 65:410/8 ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ 23 Hours a Day ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Sample Batch Files for use with Proboard - Intermail - Imail °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° What Do You Need? °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° We will start at the beginning. You will need the Proboard BBS Package set up and running on your system. It is very important that you understand that all of these programs and utilities must be operational before you begin. The batch files ONLY pull the programs together, they do not fix them! You will also need Intermail front end system. You can use a variety of tossers/scanners, but I highly recommend Imail for a variety of reasons discussed later. The rest of the programs are discussed later in more detail as they are not required to run a mailer front end, only nice. We will now look at your system. You must be sure that all of your statements are correct in both your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. I will not go into that, as the DOCS supplied with the programs cover all that info. We will discuss only the Batch files. You should check your CONFIG.SYS to be sure that the number of files, and buffers is set correctly. I use FILES=50 Buffers=40. In your AUTOEXEC.BAT, make sure that Proboard and Intermail are in your path statement, and that you have set there path statements as discussed in each of the programs DOC files. Make sure your tosser is in the path as required. ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± Files in This Archive ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± STARTIM1.BAT -- This is the main batch file that controls your BBS's Node 1. If you run only one node, this is the one you will use. STARTIM2.BAT -- This is the main batch file for Node 2. If you have more than 2 nodes, use this as an example for the other batch files you must make. EXEBBS.BAT -- This is the "pass off" file for your BBS. NU.BAT -- This is the Nodelist Update Batch file. SYSDOC.TXT -- Text format of this DOC. SYSDOC.EXE -- Executable format of this DOC. README.1ST -- Instructions. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² Setting up STARTIM.BAT ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² You should start by editing the supplied STARTIM?.BAT to fit your needs. Change drive letters, directories, etc. ERRORLEVELS: Each errorlevel tells the batch file and the system how to behave. I will cover a few so you will get the idea. The most important errorlevels would be to pass a user to the BBS, Local Log ons, Maintenance, and Tossing mail. We will look at these. ÛÛÛÛÛÛ Errorlevels -Passing a user to the BBS- ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ The first thing you want to do is set up Intermails connect strings and errorlevels. Here is an example of mine. ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Connect strings » º # Connect Message Speed EC BBSexit Terminate º ºÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĺ º 1 CONNECT| 300 N 0 0 º º 2 CONNECT 1200| 1200 N 0 0 º º 3 CONNECT 1200/ 1200 N 0 0 º º 4 CONNECT 1275 1200 N 0 0 º º 5 CONNECT 7512 1200 N 0 0 º º 6 CONNECT 2400| 2400 N 49 0 º º 7 CONNECT 2400/ 2400 N 49 0 º º 8 CONNECT 4800 4800 N 49 0 º º 9 CONNECT 7200 7200 N 49 0 º º 10 CONNECT 9600 9600 N 49 0 º º 11 CONNECT 12000 12000 N 49 0 º º 12 CONNECT 14400 14400 N 49 0 º º 13 CONNECT 19200 19200 N 49 0 º º 14 CONNECT 21600 21600 N 49 0 º º 15 CONNECT 24000 24000 N 49 0 º º 16 CONNECT 26400 26400 N 49 0 º º 17 CONNECT 28800 28800 N 49 0 º º 18 CONNECT 38400 28800 N 49 0 º º 19 CONNECT 57600 28800 N 49 0 º º 20 FAX FAX N 0 255 º º 21 FCON FCON N 0 240 º º º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ I have no settings for callers below 2400, as I don't allow them. All BBS callers, no matter what baud rate drop with errorlevel 49. This will pass them to the BBS with the defaults %1 %2 %3 etc (see Intermail DOC) to the BBS with there current baud rates. MAKE SURE YOUR MODEM HAS THE COMMAND TO CONNECT AT MODEM TO MODEM SPEED! This is usually the ATW2 command. You should set the highest speed to the fastest speed of your modem. If you use BGFAX or a similar program, you will need lines 20 and 21. They can NOT exit with a normal errorlevel, or the mailer will send the "Press escape twice for Proboard" line. Terminate, shoots it straight over to the program. OK, when a human caller calls, it exits with errorlevel 49 and the batch file calls DOBBS.BAT. This is a Batch file that Intermail will create on it's own. DOBBS.BAT then passes the info of to EXEBBS.BAT. We will discuss these files in more detail at a later time. ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Errorlevels - Local- ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Local log-ons made easy! In IMSETUP you can specify system Macro keys. set one to exit with errorlevel 220, and call it Local Log on. The set up is in STARTIM?.BAT, and will scan any new mail you enter also! ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Errorlevels - Maintenance - ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Probably one of the more important things you can set up is the daily /weekly/monthly maintenance. I will not go into great detail about this as your maintenance will vary from mine. I run THDPRO to scan and toss my files that I receive from a couple of people who upload mass amounts of files daily. THDTERM is a separate utility for that function. You probably will not need that function. I HIGHLY recommend the use of AMU! You can run almost all of your maintenance from it (I should get a free reg key for that plug!). You should set up maintenance in IMSETUP under events. I run mine at 03:00 so I won't impede on users time. Events are explained in the IM docs. Here is an example: ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Edit » º Tag X º º Days -------A º º Modifier Ignore eventbase (*) º º Start time 03:05 º º Length 00:01 º º Errorlevel 175 º º Not used º º Behavior º º Use alias 1:116/145 º º Retry delay 0 º º Comment Daily Maint.-Files, Messages, etc. º ºÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĺ º Maximum cost of messages to send during event. -1 Ignores cost º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ -Errorlevels- Mail ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ This is the tricky part. There are so many different scanners/tossers out there, that I could not possibly address each one. I will do a VERY basic overview of what you need. First TOSSERS and SCANNERS are only necessary if you are receiving ECHO mail! In IMSETUP you should set an errorlevel to exit with mail received. This Batch file uses 200. When your HUB sends you your mail, this errorlevel will be invoked. It should be set to activate you tosser. Sending mail. My scanner handles Net mail and Echo mail the same, so I have only one errorlevel for sending mail. Proboard exits with various error- levels to tell your batch file what, if any, kind of mail has been entered. With my setup, If any mail was entered, it will jump to MAILSEND in the batch file. This will scan all mail areas, and pack up any mail to be sent. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² Other ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² I run a variety of other programs. Each is described here. NU - Nodelist Updater. My HUB sends me a Nodelist update every week to add new systems, remove others, etc. This file is a NODEDIF.???. I receive it on Friday, so I have an event set for Saturday to run NU and then recompile the nodelist. ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ EXEBBS.BAT ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ The EXEBBS.BAT should be understood now, it uses only a few commands that have been discussed already. ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Notes ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Proboard is Copyrighted by Philippe Leybaert NU or Nodelist Updater is copyrighted by Roland Van Der Put. Intermail is copyrighted by Intermail Software Inc. BGFAX is copyrighted by B.J. Guillot THDPRO is copyrighted by Painsoft. Imail is copyrighted by Andreas Klien. AMU is copyrighted by David L. Hickey. ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ I hope this file has been of use. If you need further information, you may contact me at: Net mail - Fidonet 1:116/145 BBS - (615)758-4288 or in the Proboard Support Echo. Thank you, Mike Howard Sysop The Peek Hole BBS!