Since the process of receiving a message with an application is actually the process of messages sending from the CommuniGate System point of view, we use the term retrieving here.
When the CommuniGate File module is installed, it creates the File InBoxes folder inside the CommuniGate folder on the server computer.
Note: The File InBoxes folder can be replaced with an alias to a folder located on any disk volume.
For each application that needs to retrieve messages from the CommuniGate System, you should create a folder or a text file inside the File InBoxes folder.
When a message is directed to accountname@File, the File module accepts this address and processes the message. The module passes the message to the CommuniGate Server kernel that converts the message into the Internet format. If the folder accountname is found inside the File InBoxes folder, the module stores the resulting text in a text file in that folder. If a text file accountname is found inside the File InBoxes folder, the module appends the resulting text to the end of that text. If neither a folder, not a file exists, an error message is sent back to the sender.
An application should check its folder in the File InBoxes folder: if a text file (a file of the type TEXT) is found there, the application should read and process it, and then it should remove the file from the folder.
Usually, messages are converted into some extended character set (containing characters outside the basic US-ASCII symbol range). The default server settings and Internet Character Set message option specify which character set to use when converting a message into the Internet RFC822 plain text format. If your application prefers to read extended characters in the MacOS character set, select the Store with MacOS character set File Service Settings option.
If the retrieving applications do not support MIME, the Never use MIME encoding option can be selected in the File Service Settings: all messages will be stored in InBoxes without MIME extensions, in this case only the plain message text and attachments (if any) will be stored in the file.
If the retrieving applications do not process attachments, select the Store without Attachments option: all attachments will be ignored when messages are converted into text files.