Welcome to AutoShare

A freeware Macintosh list server and auto-responder.
An EIMS (AIMS, MailShare) companion application.
Copyright © 1994-1997 Mikael Hansen.

AutoShare is written by Mikael Hansen.

EIMS (AIMS, MailShare) is written by Glenn Anderson, Qualcomm.

SIMS is written by Stalker Software.

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version 2.0 of AutoShare. Go here to quickly read the announcement details for 2.0 further down on this web page and here for an overview of the AutoShare documents.

Addresses and URLs

My personal e-mail address is meh@dnai.com.

The AutoShare home page is at http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/.

The AutoShare ftp site is at ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/.

James Berriman's AutoShare web pages are at http://frutiger.staffs.ac.uk/autoshare/.

Lists

The AutoShare Announcement list offers news on AutoShare and related topics.

To subscribe to the AutoShare announcement list, send mail to autoshare@frutiger.staffs.ac.uk with subscribe autoshare-announce Ðyour nameð in the first line of the body.

The AutoShare announcement list took off on November 15 1996.

The AutoShare Talk list is a forum for discussing AutoShare and related topics.

To subscribe, send mail to autoshare@frutiger.staffs.ac.uk with subscribe autoshare-talk Ðyour nameð in the first line of the body. Be sure to subscribe as I am likely to respond faster to contributions on this list than to personal e-mails about AutoShare. Thank you!

The AutoShare talk list took off on April 23 1996 (my original list started on March 16 1995), and the listmaster is James Berriman, who knows more about EIMS and AutoShare than I do :-)

The AutoShare Tip Of The Day list offers insights on little known AutoShare features. Subscribers receive one mail per day. If you would like to contribute, please post your story to the moderated list.

To subscribe to the AutoShare tip of the day list, send mail to autoshare@frutiger.staffs.ac.uk with subscribe autoshare-tip-of-the-day Ðyour nameð in the first line of the body.

The AutoShare tip of the day list took off on August 6 1997.

The AutoShare Beta list is mostly private. At rare occasions when I feel I have the time, the list is public as it was in part for version 1.0 and 1.4.

Features

AutoShare is robust, speedy and requires little memory. The 68K and PowerPC native server applications, tested with Mac OS 8.0, are fully scriptable and may be configured using the AutoShare Admin, an administration tool with balloon help. Lists in the hundreds and subscribers in the thousands per list are supported, as are subscription, open, moderated, announcement and private list types.

AutoShare comes complete with script samples and documentation covering features such as multi-preferences, fully automated web archives, remote administration by e-mail, subscriber and administrator web forms, advanced mail-back confirmations, automated bounce and unsubscribe module, launching of external applications, keep applications up feature, process extenders, MIME configuration of outgoing mail messages, List- RFC headers, simultaneous text and HTML archives, tip of the day lists, poll feature for voting, subscriber address protection, subject prefixes in list contributions, headers and footers in list contributions and digests, rotating banners and much more.

Releases

Please visit the AutoShare post-release notes from time to time.

AutoShare 2.0 release

The AutoShare 2.0 version, released on December 7 1997 (30 months to the day since the release of version 1.0!), is available from ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/. Version 2.0 introduced a completely revamped AutoShare 2.0 Documentation showing just how easy it is to get going with AutoShare, a major multi-preferences feature coming in handy with mail server multi-domains, a filter process extender, user interface refinements for both the server and the Admin, up-to-date full scriptability plus many minor improvements and bug fixes.

Several related downloads such as an AutoShare Admin version with a built-in FaceSpan extension are available at ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/autoshare-more/.

The AutoShare 2.0 version is also available from your local Info-Mac mirror site in the comm/inet/mail directory. You may furthermore fetch it using e-mail by writing to AutoShare-software@frutiger.staffs.ac.uk.

AutoShare 1.4.2 release

The AutoShare 1.4.2 version (the applications and a few documents only), released on September 30 1997, is available from ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/. Version 1.4.2 introduced several new auto-response tokens and Using AutoShare with SIMS.

AutoShare 1.4.1 release

The AutoShare 1.4.1 version (server applications and a few documents only), released on September 18 1997, is available from ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/. Version 1.4.1 introduced disabling and enabling of processing.

AutoShare 1.4 release

The AutoShare 1.4 version, released on September 9 1997 (with a public beta taking off on July 8 1997), is available from ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/. Version 1.4 introduced substantial speed and memory refinements, launching of external applications, keep applications up, process extenders, tip of the day lists, rotating banners, subscriber address protection and simultaneous text and HTML archives.

AutoShare 1.3 release

The AutoShare 1.3 version, released on May 6 1997, is available from ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/. Version 1.3 introduced subscriber and administrator web forms, Mac-to-HTML and MIME-to-HTML character conversions, choice of RFC From vs envelope sender for subscriber lists, scripted e-mail using the Send Mail AppleScript command, monthly help files on a per-list basis, subscriber aliases, specific key strings for poll accounts and considerably improved speed for large enclosures.

AutoShare 1.2 release

The AutoShare 1.2 version, released on March 14 1997, is available from ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/. Version 1.2 introduced automated web archives, remote administration by e-mail, advanced mail-back confirmations, automated bounce and unsubscribe module, fast searching and sorting of lists, MIME configuration of outgoing mail messages, subject prefixes in list contributions and Admin balloon help.

AutoShare 1.1 release

The AutoShare 1.1 version, released on November 15 1996, is available from ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/. Version 1.1 introduced list-specific features, full scriptability, the AutoShare Admin and the PowerPC native version.

You can also get it at Internet Servers for Mac OS and ftp.freedonia.com/pub/servers/.

AutoShare 1.0.1 release

The AutoShare 1.0.1 version (software and release notes only), released on June 14 1995, includes a few fixes to the 1.0 software. It's available from ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/.

AutoShare 1.0 release

AutoShare 1.0, a freeware EIMS (AIMS, MailShare) companion application including list server and auto-responder services, was released on June 7 1995. This public AutoShare 1.0 final version is available from ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/autoshare/. The 1.0 release includes the AutoShare 1.0 Documentation as well as Jason Snell's AutoShare QuickStart.

FAQ

The AutoShare FAQ serves as a supplement to the AutoShare 2.0 Documentation and the AutoShare Addendum.

You may also want to take a look at An overview of the AutoShare documents.

Be sure to check out James Berriman's Using AutoShare with NewsRunner.

Please note

AutoShare is a personal project of Mikael Hansen in his free time (usually past 10 p.m., so it's late night software) and in no way relates to his work as such or any other formal channels of support (I'm doing it strictly for the fun of it).

Last updated on December 4 1997 by Mikael Hansen