This is intended to solve the problem of people with mailers for which there is no MFD. It requires more technical ability and the facilities are a little less smooth. Nevertheless, it should provide access to a wide variety of users.
1. The General Purpose MFD as supplied is configured to treat Windows 95 Notepad as a mailer. You can configure it to support something else but first, let's look at how it's used.
2. Install as for any other MFD
3. To send a message, compose in the normally way but put the "To" and "CC" fields in the body of the message like this:
To: user@site
Cc: fred@site
This is the first line of the message
4. Click Run in the normal way. When Mollusc has finished cut and paste the To and CC addresses into the real To and CC fields of the mailer
5. Inward mail is similarly handled by pressing Run. Mollusc detects the difference between inward and outward mail by looking for PGP headers.
6. How to configure for other mailers
In this example, we'll assume the other mailer is called Wonder Mail. Before starting, verify that Wonder Mail responds in the following way:
- Type a few words in an outgoing mail form. Then use Alt-E A and Ctrl-C to get the text into the Clipboard. If that doesn't work, you can't use _GENERAL
- Check that you can paste multiple copies of the Clipboard into the form with Cntrl-V
- Check that you can get the text of an incoming message into the Clipboard with Alt-E A Ctrl-C
6.1 Copy all the _GENERAL.* files in your MFD directory to _WONDERM.*
6.2 Edit _WONDERM.CTL. On the first line, put a short description of Wonder Mail. A suitable example would be
Wonder Mail V1.00
6.3 Run Wonder Mail and open an outgoing mail window. Note the exact text of the title bar (often coloured blue with white text and at the top of the screen) Here's an example:
Wonder Mail - [New Message]
6.4 Do the same for an inward message. You might get:
Wonder Mail - [user@site 7/8/96 Re: no subject]
6.5 Determine the longest common "substring". That is, something that is common to both inward and outward titles. In our example, this is
