Q: Is there any documentation for ifgate and ifcico?
A: No, sorry.  Only README files and example configuration file.  And
   this FAQ list, of course.

Q: Will ifcico work in multiline environment?
A: Hopefully yes, though the mechanism of skipping locked files is
   not well tested.

Q: How do I create a nodelist?
A: You need not.  Take a fresh nodelist from a nearby FidoNet node.

Q: How do I compile the nodelist?
A: With ifindex program.  You also need to keep the original nodelists.

Q: How do I compile a nodediff?
A: Try nledit from the misc/nledit directory.

Q: The diffs to getty_ps do not fit, and besides that, ifcico cannot
   originate call while uugetty is active on the dialin line.  Any ideas?
A: Take getty_ps version 2.0.7c, versions prior to 2.0.7b are unusable.

Q: When I start ifcico without parameters, it displays banner and does
   noting.  Ctrl-C, Ctrl-\ etc. do not help.  What's on?
A: This is correct behavior in slave mode.  To make outgoing calls, start
   it with "-r1" parameter.  If you unintentionally started it in slave
   mode, just wait several minutes, and it will finish.

Q: Do directories in config file need ending "/" ?
A: No.  But it won't do any harm.

Q: How do I create alias in the database?
A: You need not.  It is created automatically as mail goes from Internet
   to FidoNet.

Q: How do I monitor as the things happen?
A: tail -f /usr/local/lib/fnet/iflog

Q: How do I tell ifcico to poll a node?
A: Either create an empty .flo or start ifcico with the node address in the
   command line.

Q: How do I arrange a coninious poll of a node until a successfull session 
   occurs?
A: #!/bin/sh
   while :
   do
     if /usr/local/lib/fnet/ifcico f123.n456
     then
       exit 0
     fi
     sleep 30
   done

Q: How do I send a message with just this specific AKA in the From:?
A: Either modify your config file to make it primary address, or forge
   customized "From:" header in the RFC-822 message before feeding it
   to MTA (or ifmail).

Q: When I run ifunpack (iftoss) packets disapper but nothing is passed 
   to sendmail/rnews.  What's on?
A: You probably specified non-zero debug level.  Your mail/newsbatches
   are now in /tmp/ifmail directory.

Q: Why doesn't ifmail check whether it can deliver the mail locally?
A: ifmail is not an MTA, it is only a gateway!  Iftoss _has_ to do some
   smart routing work, to be able to use alias database, but generally
   this is your MTA's responcibility to distinguish local addresses.

Q: Why doesn't ifmail accept addresses in fido-format (2:283/315.38) ?
A: Because.

Q: Why do I get a warning about the out-of-date nodelist index so often?
A: Nodelist index should be rebuilt if any of the source nodelists *OR*
   any of the config files is younger than the index.

Q: When ifcico receives a file request, does it perform a subdirectory
   seach?
A: No.  But remember that in UN*X files may have more than one link.

Q: How do I create a file request?
A: Make an FTS-0006 compatible file in the outbound directory with the
   name XXXXYYYY.req, where XXXX is a hexadecimal net number, and YYYY
   is a hexadecimal node number.  In the simplest case, it would contain 
   just file names (one at a line).

Q: How do I specify the "To:" field in the news article to be passed to
   FidoNet?
A: Use "X-Comment-To:" header (or simply "Comment-To:")

Q: How do I get rid of the RFC headers converted to that silly kludges
   in the FidoNet messages?
A: You cannot.  The author insists on *always* keeping the header
   information.  There is a Good Reason to keep them, trust me!

Q: How do I achieve default FidoNet routing - either "direct" or "host",
   "hub", "zonegate" routing?
A: Generally, this is MTA's responcibility.  ifroute program, that can
   be used as a "queryprogram" in Smail, is under development.

Q: When I link ifcico, I get an unresolved reference: yy???.o.  Any hints?
A: Try adding "-ll" (or "-lfl" if you are using flex) to the LIBS in the
   CONFIG file.

Q: All articles I receive from my FidoNet uplink are routed back (as I see
   in the cnews log, and in the cnews "togo" file).  Why?
A: Because in the cnews "sys" you specified the site name in a format
   other than recommended "fNNN.nMMM" (or "pLLL.fNNN.nMMM").

Q: Is it possible to to have FidoNet correspondents look like internettes
   in Internet, i.e. have "From: User.Name@Inter.net.domain" instead of
   "From: User.Name@pNN.fMM.nLL.zX.something.org"?
A: In many cases this can be done with the "domtrans" configuration verb.

Q: After calling a Fido node I find these lines in iflog:
   "tcsetattr(0,TCSADRAIN,clocal) return -1 \n\terrno=5 : I/O error"
   Should I be worried about these errors?
A: No.  On some systems, kernel does not allow any tty I/O after hangup,
   thus preventing ifcico from resetting the modem after call.

Q: On SCO UNIX, ifcico cannot obtain device for dialout.  What's on?
A: Probably this is a permission problem creating a LCK file: either
   make /usr/spool/uucp world-writable or make uucico owned by uucp.

Q: Will ifmail ever run on MS/DOS?
A: No.
