Introduction
WaterGate is a message processing system. It can handle netmail and
echomail in FidoNet Technology (FTN) format and Internet e-mail and
Usenet news in several formats. It can distribute the messages in any
of the supported formats and gate the messages between the different
formats.
Message "processing" means WaterGate does not do transfers, but
processes files instead. Speaking in FidoNet terminology, it is a
tosser that can handle Internet and Usenet as well.
As far as Internet and Usenet are concerned, WaterGate can process
files (jobs) in UUCP, SMTP and BAG format. UUCP is the core protocol
that WaterGate is based on and is used to transfer e-mail and news.
The terms FidoNet and UUCP will be used to differentiate between the
two systems. FidoNet refers to both netmail and echomail, where UUCP
refers to both Internet e-mail and Usenet news.
Features
- FidoNet message processing: netmail and echomail
- Internet/Usenet message processing: e-mail and news
- Gateway between FidoNet and Internet
- Supports 65,000+ areas and nodes
- Support for *.MSG, Squish, and JAM message bases
- Built-in Remote Area Manager for FidoNet and Usenet(!)
- Utility program to perform system and message base maintenance
- Built-in Mailing List Server
- Built-in File Robot
-
MailTunnel to transport FidoNet via e-mail
- Configuration program with friendly user interface
- Context sensitive online help "everywhere"
- The fastest, most complete and most user friendly around!
Compatible with
- FrontDoor/InterMail
- BinkleyTerm/TIMS
- d'Bridge
- Waffle's UUCICO/FX-UUCICO
- WinDis, KA9Q, Slurp, Changi
Requirements
- An IBM Compatible computer (AT/386/486/Pentium)
- MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows '95, Windows NT or compatible Operating System
- About 475Kb of available "low" memory (360Kb for the overlaid version)
- Optionally some XMS/EMS memory
- Enough hard disk space depending on your configuration
To operate effectively, you probably need a FidoNet compatible mailer such
as FrontDoor or BinkleyTerm. Also, if you want to exchange mail with the
UUCP mechanism, a program such as UUCICO or the faster FX-UUCICO is needed.
These programs should be available on any large BBS or FTP site.
We would like to thank the following users for testing the beta
versions of WaterGate, finding bugs, sending problem reports and test
files, and making suggestions for improvements:
Miguel Lupi Alves, Mitchell Baker, Anthony Barlow, Gerrit Brinkman,
Christian von Busse, Glen Chambers, Thomas Charron, Troy Engel,
Richard Fairhead, Sue Fairhead, Frans van Geene, Guus Goos,
Christopher Henderson, John Halbig, Erik Kolodziej, Phill McKenna,
Jim Meijer, Steve Milstead, John Mudge, Pete Rocca, Bob Ross, Jan Ruys,
Robert Stark, Peter van der Steen, Joop Stokvis, Pat Trainor, Michel Voorn,
Rene Vreeman, Remco Vrolijk, Rob Waite, Jurgen van der Wilk.
and anybody else who we forgot to mention!
Special thanks to Rob Szarka of
Brazerko Communications in the USA.
Explicit NO thanks to Jon Greaves and Colin Taylor for disappearing as
credit card sites, without telling us.
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Last updated 13 October 1996