So I did follow Avon's guide to getting the FTN setup, but actually his dummy files weren't available and I was able to read an .INI and get it ironed...
if I had to label myself, I'd say I was intermediate....

That being said, I have everything on the messaging side pretty much ironed out... even maintenance. But its filearea time... I did a search here, didn't see any wiki or solid howto's, but did find some messages about the topic. Nothing that encompasses the whole process by any means - is there any info online that you can point me to?

I'm going to kick it off using the Mystic Wiki, fsxNet messages and general FidoNet/FTN info on the web... I'm sure I can muscle through but... if theres any resources I'd love a link or a pointer.

Also, I followed a guide on QWK messaging but my QWK (Dove-Net) message
basese seem to be tossing to the wrong areas/bases... maybe I just put the wrong #codes to the Dove-Net bases; any hints there at all? I know I'm vague, and will follow up with the author (Black Panther) of the post I used. Again, just looking for pointers before I dive in myself, alone... I did search. :P

Thanks.

pAULIE42o

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On 11 Jul 2020, paulie420 said the following...

So I did follow Avon's guide to getting the FTN setup, but actually his dummy files weren't available and I was able to read an .INI and get it ironed...

Check out the mutil.ini file in the Mystic directory. The files that Paul points to on his site are just excerpts on that file. e.g. I have the ImportEchoMail and FileToss stanzas in my mailin.ini and the ExportEchoMail stanza in my mailout.ini.

Also, I followed a guide on QWK messaging but my QWK (Dove-Net) message basese seem to be tossing to the wrong areas/bases... maybe I just put
the wrong #codes to the Dove-Net bases; any hints there at all?

Check out: http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dove-net

This has the Conference #'s for each message base. (e.g 2001 for General,
2002 for Advertisements & so on) just make sure you match those numbers to
the QWK Base ID in your message base.


Jay

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On 12 Jul 2020, Warpslide said the following...

Check out the mutil.ini file in the Mystic directory. The files that
Paul points to on his site are just excerpts on that file. e.g. I have the ImportEchoMail and FileToss stanzas in my mailin.ini and the ExportEchoMail stanza in my mailout.ini.

Yep, thanks - I was able to decipher the .INI - at least like... enough to
get the messages going. I'll tackle files soon - they did give me some troubles, but it was just attempt #1. I'll get there. :P

Check out: http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dove-net
This has the Conference #'s for each message base. (e.g 2001 for
General, 2002 for Advertisements & so on) just make sure you match those numbers to the QWK Base ID in your message base.

Perfect - THIS is what I was looking for... Dove tossed messages into the
wrong directories, but it might have something to do with reusing my
synchronet username. Derp...

Thanks, this will get my Dove setup perfect too.

Appreciate the tips, only issue will be fsxNet file bases.... but I'll get there.

pAULIE42o

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On 11 Jul 2020, paulie420 said the following...

Also, I followed a guide on QWK messaging but my QWK (Dove-Net) message basese seem to be tossing to the wrong areas/bases... maybe I just put
the wrong #codes to the Dove-Net bases; any hints there at all? I know
I'm vague, and will follow up with the author (Black Panther) of the
post I used. Again, just looking for pointers before I dive in myself, alone... I did search. :P

From what I've seen, the biggest thing is making sure the QWK Base ID is correct for each base. I've done that one myself...

Also, from what I've heard, the newest pre-release of Mystic will now allow someone to gate between FTN and QWK using Mystic. I haven't tried it myself, but I hope to take a look at it soon.


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On 12 Jul 2020, Black Panther said the following...

On 11 Jul 2020, paulie420 said the following...

Also, I followed a guide on QWK messaging but my QWK (Dove-Net) messa basese seem to be tossing to the wrong areas/bases... maybe I just pu the wrong #codes to the Dove-Net bases; any hints there at all? I kno I'm vague, and will follow up with the author (Black Panther) of the post I used. Again, just looking for pointers before I dive in myself alone... I did search. :P

From what I've seen, the biggest thing is making sure the QWK Base ID is correct for each base. I've done that one myself...

Also, from what I've heard, the newest pre-release of Mystic will now allow someone to gate between FTN and QWK using Mystic. I haven't tried
it myself, but I hope to take a look at it soon.

Theres the man! Hey BP, I appreciate your text on QWK... it was spot-on. I would suggest a link to the synchronet wiki page that lists the QWK base ID #:

http://wiki.synchro.net/network:dove-net

and maybe even a list in text... thats where I got messed up, the first 6 or
so were consecutive so I just typed them all in order. Well, they are jumbled up a bit after the middle; as are my local message bases, because the
original sysOp must have moved bases around... like I did. :P On their end,
it would probably be smart to make them all consecutive but... I figured it out. Heres a list, in case you do want to edit your howto:

General 2001
Advertisements 2002
Entertainment 2003
Debate 2004
Hardware/Software Help 2005
Programming 2006
Unix Discussion 2009
HAM Radio Operators 2015
Internet Discussion 2016
Pro-Audio Discussion 2017
Firearms Discussion 2018
Sports Discussion 2019
Religious Discussion/Debate/Evangelism 2020
Hobby Corner (RC/modeling/etc) 2021
Synchronet Announcements 2030
Synchronet Discussion 2007
Synchronet Sysops Only 2008
Synchronet Programming (Baja) 2011
Synchronet Programming (JavaScript) 2012
Synchronet Programming (C/C++ and CVS) 2014
Synchronet Data 2013
DOVE-Net Sysops Only 2010


Again, BP, thanks for your write-up- regardless of whether I could have got thru myself or not it certainly made it nice to have all the data I needed sitting right there. Appreciated.

pAULIE42o
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On 13 Jul 2020, paulie420 said the following...

Theres the man! Hey BP, I appreciate your text on QWK... it was spot-on.
I would suggest a link to the synchronet wiki page that lists the QWK
base ID #:

http://wiki.synchro.net/network:dove-net

I think the entire how-to needs a rewrite, in my opinion. :) It was quickly thrown together to help out a fellow sysop, and I decided to have it hatched out to help anyone else out.

and maybe even a list in text... thats where I got messed up, the first
6 or so were consecutive so I just typed them all in order. Well, they
are jumbled up a bit after the middle; as are my local message bases, because the original sysOp must have moved bases around... like I did.
:P On their end, it would probably be smart to make them all consecutive but... I figured it out. Heres a list, in case you do want to edit your howto:

I think the order probably started out alphabetically, but then other areas were added, and some probably removed... On my system, I keep them in alphabetical order, and the numbering is messed up as well...

Again, BP, thanks for your write-up- regardless of whether I could have got thru myself or not it certainly made it nice to have all the data I needed sitting right there. Appreciated.

You are very welcome. I'm glad it helped. I will re-write it so it's a little more up-to-date, and a bit more organized. It's on my to-do list! ;)


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