Welcome to the official Internet Rex homepage!
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.
Click here to download the shareware version of Internet
Rex now.