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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 mes-
       sages 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.

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