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).
- 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, and
Postroad mailer.
- Support for multiple inbound/outbound email addresses,
and multiple inbound/outbound mail queue types.
- MIME encoding,
UUencoding, XXencoding and TransX compatible 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 and ShotGun.
- Native versions for Win95/WinNT, 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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