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Skriven 2009-03-13 21:39:36 av August Abolins (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 54059 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: What IS IREX, by the way?
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Alan Zisman -> Dan Ceppa said..

 AZ> (What IS IREX, by the way?)

It's a transport tool for BBS sysops.  I used it to move fidonet files when I
operated my various BBSes.  I still use it to transfer some files for a
Multi-bbs game that I still play every once in a while: WordWarp.

From the official download site:

Internet Rex is a tool for BBS sysops to transfer netmail over the Internet.
Its main goal is to provide an easy to use yet very flexible way to get mail
from one BBS to another using the Internet's services. To this end, Internet
Rex supports:

    * Transfer of mail via email, FTP, BinkP and toss to directory (for use on
FTP servers).
    * For those with a fulltime internet connection, Rex includes BinkP, FTP,
mail (SMTP/POP3/finger) and ident servers.
    * Reading and writing of email through SMTP/POP3 server, UUCP,
Fido/Internet gateway, KA9Q style mail spool, Soup/Yarn mail queue, Eudora,
PMMail, MR/2 Ice, Nettamer, Postroad mailer and standard Unix mailboxes.
    * Support for multiple inbound/outbound email addresses, and multiple
inbound/outbound mail queue types.
    * A full featured BBS/internet email and news gateway.
    * MIME encoding, UUencoding, XXencoding, TransX compatible encoding and
Rex's own special Rex encoding.
    * Reading and writing of messages for Fido2Int, TransX, Allfix 5.0+, GIGO,
Watergate, PXFids and all SEAT compatible mail programs.
    * Transfer of TransX messages.
    * Reading the queues of FrontDoor compatible mailers, Binkley compatible
mailers, D'Bridge, AdeptX, Platinum Xpress, PCBoard 15.22+, ViaMail, QFront and
any mailer capable of sending mail through a *.PKT queue. Additional support is
included for the advanced features of TMail and McMail.
    * Multinode support for Binkley compatible mailers, FrontDoor, MainDoor,
Intermail, TMail, ViaMail, ShotGun and others.
    * Native versions for 32-bit Windows, OS/2, DOS and Linux.

While the main interest is providing the basic features that would be needed
for any system to send mail over the Internet, Rex offers features important to
the discriminating sysop, including:

    * True encryption of files for secure transfers.
    * Reliable transfers, so mail is never lost or damaged.
    * CC email file attaches, so the same file can be sent to many different
people using only one message.
    * Gating of netmail to email.
    * 5D addressing.
    * Automatic packing and unpacking of messages and attached files.
    * File request processing, including FREQ via email.
    * Network support, including drive mapping and firewall aware protocols.




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