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<BLOCKQUOTE>
<h5>Last update 03-Mar-2002</h5>
<P>&nbsp;<P>
<div align="right"><h5>Last update 08-Nov-2003</h5></div>
<div align="center"><H1>mbcico - The Fidonet mailer.</H1></div>
<H1>mbcico - The Fidonet mailer.</H1>
<P>
This is work in progress....
<P>
@@ -44,23 +43,21 @@ between <strong>ifcico</strong> and <strong>mbcico</strong>. Nowadays it is
quite different then ifcico.
<P>
Currently it supports FTS-0001, YooHoo/2U2 and EMSI handshake protocols,
Xmodem, Telink, Modem7, Hydra, SEAlink with and without overdrive and
crash recovery, Bark file and update requests, WaZoo protocols: DietIFNA,
Xmodem, Telink, Modem7, Hydra with zlib compression extension (FSP-xxxx),
SEAlink with and without overdrive and crash recovery,
Bark file and update requests, WaZoo protocols: DietIFNA,
plain Zmodem (aka ZedZip, EMSI flag "ZMO") and ZedZap, WaZoo file and
update requests (nodelist flag should be XA). WaZoo file and update requests
do also work with FTS-0001 sessions, this is supported by several well known DOS
mailers also.
Password protected requests and update requests are implemented (but not
yet full tested).
Password protected requests and update requests are implemented.
<P>
There is also a special protocol optimized to use over TCP/IP connections,
contributed by Stanislav Voronyi &lt;stas@uanet.kharkov.ua&gt;, it is
identiefied by EMSI proto code TCP (not registered) and nodelist flag IFC.
The default port is 60179. There is a telnet variant on this, the default
port is 23, and nodelist flag is ITN. The telnet variant is written by
T. Tanaka.
identified by EMSI proto code TCP (not registered) and nodelist flag IFC.
The default port is 60179.
<P>
There is also a <strong>Binkp</strong> implementation, this is a
There is also a <strong>Binkp/1.0</strong> implementation, this is a
bi-directional TCP/IP protocol.
This protocol is prefferred over the IFC protocol because it is
more efficient. Nodelist flag is IBN, the default port is 24554, and the
@@ -79,7 +76,48 @@ stored in the "protected" inbound.
directory. If a request is made for a file with matching name, the
executable from the "magic" directory is run, and its stdout output is mailed
to the requestor. Full requestor's address, in the form of "John Smith of
1:234/56/7" is passed to the executable in the command line. Non-executable
1:234/56/7" is passed to the executable in the command line. An example of
such file is on my system, the filename in the magic directory is <b>STATUS</b>.
<pre>
echo " Hello $1 $2,"
echo ""
echo " Status report for MBSE BBS Development"
echo " --------------------------------------"
echo ""
echo "Date : `date`"
echo "System: `uname -mrs`"
echo "Uptime: `uptime`"
echo ""
echo "`df -T`"
echo ""
echo "`free`"
echo ""
echo "Gtx, Michiel Broek"
</pre>
If you file request STATUS from my system you will get something like:
<pre>
Hello John Doe,
Status report for MBSE BBS Development
--------------------------------------
Date : Sat Nov 8 17:29:07 CET 2003
System: Linux 2.4.20 i586
Uptime: 17:29:07 up 88 days, 20:02, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Filesystem Type 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 ext3 5921096 3405184 2210276 61% /
/dev/hdb1 ext3 6198404 5133056 750476 88% /opt
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 94280 91360 2920 0 13152 46276
-/+ buffers/cache: 31932 62348
Swap: 136512 32380 104132
Gtx, Michiel Broek
</pre>
Non-executable
files in the magic directory contain the full names to magic filenames. The
magic NODELIST can thus point to the full path and filename of your latest
nodelist. These magic names are automatic maintained by the <strong>mbfido</strong>
@@ -107,7 +145,6 @@ CR). To make this work <strong>mgetty</strong> must be compiled with the
To answer TCP/IP calls the following lines should be added to /etc/inetd.conf:
<P><PRE>
binkd stream tcp nowait mbse /opt/mbse/bin/mbcico mbcico -t ibn
tfido stream tcp nowait mbse /opt/mbse/bin/mbcico mbcico -t itn
fido stream tcp nowait mbse /opt/mbse/bin/mbcico mbcico -t ifc
</PRE><P>
If your system uses xinetd the file /etc/xinetd.d/mbsebbs could be:
@@ -150,12 +187,9 @@ service fido
In the file /etc/services the following lines must be present:
<P><PRE>
binkd 24554/tcp # mbcico IBN mode
tfido 60177/tcp # mbcico ITN mode
fido 60179/tcp # mbcico IFC mode
mbse 60180/tcp # MBSE BBS deamon
</PRE><P>
In this case I installed the ITN mode at port 60177 instead of 23 like most
sysops do.
</PRE>
<P>&nbsp;<P>
@@ -220,7 +254,7 @@ of ".sts". These are small datafiles containing three decimal numbers.
<h3>Configuration.</H3>
<P>
The behaviour of mbcico can be configured with <strong>mbsetup</strong>,
section 1.17 If something doesn't do what you want, set the debug on for
section 1.14 If something doesn't do what you want, set the debug on for
that problem. This will produce huge logfiles, but also a lot of information.
Important flags are Device IO, EMSI debug, File forward, Locking, Outboundscan
and Session.
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<pre>
Eugene G. Crosser &lt;crosser@average.org&gt; Orginal ifcico.
Stanislav Voronyi &lt;stas@uanet.kharkov.ua&gt; TCP/IP code.
T. Tanaka Telnet mode.
Martin Junius Rewrite of opentcp().
Omen Technology Inc Zmodem protocol.
Arjen G. Lentz, Joaquim H. Homrighausen Hydra transfer protocol.