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MailBurst 2.1 Addendum (SIMS)
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This is the addendum for MailBurst 2.1.
One thing to watch for is to make sure that MailBurst 2.1 auto-detects
the proper server. If you have an OLD EIMS 1.x Mail Folder in your
system folder, MailBurst may find that and assume you're using EIMS 1.x.
If this happens you'll want to move the files in the "System Folder:Mail
folder:incoming mail:" folder to the "Mail Folder:incoming mail" folder
in your EIMS 2.x folder (or your Submitted folder if you're now using
SIMS). Just check the Mail Server menu, under Edit to make sure you have
the right server.
Install MailBurst 2.1 so the application is in the same folder as your
EIMS or SIMS application, just makes life easier... for SIMS it really
doesn't matter, as MailBurst's mail folder is aliased to the unknown@f
folder in the SIMS accounts folder.
New features:
* Support for SIMS
For SIMS to send mail to MailBurst you have to create an alias
the MailBurst:Mail folder, rename the alias to "unknown@f" and
and place the folder alias in the SIMS folder:accounts folder
(which is in the System Folder). This will instruct SIMS to
save any messages that do not match the routing table or
accounts list into the MailBurst:mail folder for MailBurst to
process. Then be sure to set the Unknown account to "Store in
Folder Only" in the accounts details screen. See the SIMS docs
or the SIMS mailing list for more assistance. (It really does
work pretty simply :-)
In general, contrasting with EIMS, which lets you set the folder
that an account saves mail to, SIMS requires you to name a
folder or an alias "account-name@f" and place it in the accounts
folder.
This (like setting the Save to folder setting in EIMS to
":MailBurst:mail") is the KEY ingredient to getting SIMS to
pass messages to MailBurst for processing.
Note: for SIMS to handle mail to unknown accounts in this
manner you must ALSO create an account with a user name of
UNKNOWN.
* On the fly switching between EIMS 1.x, 2.x, and SIMS
* Support for footers on an address by address basis:
Select a folder for each user. Place footer files in the
folder and they are selected at random.
* Support for plain and html parts in footer files:
Use the tag <MailBurst:plain> to start the plain footer
and use <MailBurst:html> to start the html footer.
If no tag is present, the same footer is used for both
parts. If one tag is present and the other is not only
the part WITH the tag will get a footer.
* Support for a user to turn on and off their auto reply by
sending a subject of "Change AutoReply On <pass phrase>"
or "Change AutoReply Off <pass phrase>"
* The first line of a file in the drop folder (for file
names that do not start with "+" or "-" is the FROM
address. This is a CHANGE from previous versions of
MailBurst.
Thus, if sending to three people, the first line
will be the FROM address, followed by three more
addresses, a blank line, the message headers, a
blank line, and the message body.
* Finally, when a message is processed by MailBurst, it
will get two additional headers, indicating the actual
SMTP TO address from the message's envelop. This permits
you to support wide domain accounts, where messages come
in for a whole domain and get routed to a single POP
account. Filtering on the X-actual-to header tells you
who the message was originally intended for.
Note: This feature means that a message processed through
multiple MailBurst accounts will have multiple
X-actual-to headers. We may leave this as is, as the
first one is the original routing, or we may change
things and place information in an X-MailBurst or
add Received headers each time MailBurst processes a
message.
Note that this feature can be selectively enabled on an
account-by-account basis.