How do I configure Taurus with a Mailer that is NOT BSO?

Configuring Taurus to work with non-Binkley Style Outbound mailers is quite easy.  Although writing docs to help you for each of the mailers available is a nearly impossible task, I'll share with you the concept of the method, and explain how to setup Taurus accordingly.

First order; You will create a directory structure on your hard drive where Taurus will look for outgoing mail for each node assigned. For simplicity purposes, we'll assume you are node 19:3/4 and you want to connect to one of your nodes, 1:226/50.

Create a directory structure like this:  C:\MAIL\NODES\122650

For node number 1:1/3 you would create another like this: C:\MAIL\NODES\113

You can name the directories whatever you wish, but naming them to the node number values simplifies things and makes it easier for you to remember which directory is assigned to which node later on when you need to modify them.

Second order: You will need to configure your BBS software to save all outgoing netmail, files, tics, and packets to these directories.  Some packages offer you the ability to provide the directory name to the node in their configuration, but most others will require you to write a batch file to do it.  All of the BBS software packages I've seen or used will name an outgoing packet a specific name (usually hex related) for an individual node.  You only need to observe some mail operations and note the specific names of those packets and then build a batch that simply states something to the effect of:

IF EXIST C:\BBS\OUTBOUND\54AKDF1D.PKT MOVE C:\BBS\OUTBOUND\54AKDF1D.PKT C:\MAIL\NODES\122650

There are more than a dozen ways to accomplish this, and since you are a sysop, I have to assume you are at least vaguely familiar with your brand of software and are capable of writing a batch file (or application) to accomplish this for you.

Third order: Configure Taurus

This assumes you've already gone through the Taurus menus & documentation and entered your node information, nodelist, and all that other stuff correctly.

NOW all you have to do is click on Config -> File Boxes and edit the table.  The Node column is the node number and the Status is N (not sure, docs in Russian), and the path is the path to that node's mail.

(example)

As you can see by the example above, we created a table which points to each node's outbox directory.  ANYTHING that's placed in that directory will be sent to that node -- ANYTHING.  Taurus will automatically look at the nodelist and determine the best method of connecting to that node and send the contents of that directory.  If you want, provide a password; if the nodelist is incorrect, then simply use the TCP/IP Field and specific the correct domain name or IP address.

That's it :)

Questions?

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