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- FMail 0.90/gamma
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- The Fast Echomail Processor
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- Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 by Folkert J. Wijnstra
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- All rights reserved
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 1.1 License and disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 1.2 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- 1.3 Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- 1.4 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- 1.5 Various notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- 2 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- 2.1 Converting config files of other echomail processor . 8
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- 3 FSetup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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- 3.1 Main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- 3.2 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- 3.2.1 General options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- 3.2.2 Message base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- 3.2.3 Mail options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- 3.2.4 Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- 3.2.5 Netmail boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
- 3.2.6 AreaMgr Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
- 3.3 System info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- 3.3.1 Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- 3.3.2 Swapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- 3.3.3 Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- 3.3.4 Decompression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- 3.3.5 Monochrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- 3.3.6 Extra handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- 3.4 Import/export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- 3.5 Pack manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- 3.6 Node manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
- 3.7 Area manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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- 4 FMail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
- 4.1 Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
- 4.2 Toss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
- 4.3 Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
- 4.4 Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- 4.4.1 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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- 6.1 Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
- 6.2 Maint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
- 6.3 Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
- 6.4 Stat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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- APPENDIX B - Technical notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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- 1 Introduction
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- FMail is an echomail and netmail processor for the Hudson message
- base. FMail has a built-in AreaFix-like function, called AreaMgr.
- Forwarding of AreaMgr requests is not available in the current
- version but will be in a future release. Six different types of
- archives are supported, one of which is ARJ. FMail has its own
- netmail routing function, called the Pack Manager. With FMail it
- is possible to make a copy of all personal mail in a special
- directory. Other features of FMail include:
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- - Capable of handling 4D addresses.
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- - If needed FMail automatically remaps fakenet addresses to 4D
- addresses and vice versa.
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- - Swaps to disk, EMS or XMS before running an archiving
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- - Supports the message base sharing specifications also used by
- RemoteAccess and FrontDoor.
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- - Multiple netmail boards in the message base.
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- - Optionally sorts and links messages in the message base after
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- 1.1 License and disclaimer
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- "FMail" refers to the executables and documentation in the
- original distribution archive. FMail is copyrighted material by
- Folkert J. Wijnstra. It may only be used in agreement with the
- conditions set out in this license agreement.
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- Although care has been taken to write and test a program that
- does what this document states, the program is provided as is,
- without warranty or guarantee of any kind, either expressed or
- implied, as to the quality or performance of this program, except
- that it will occupy disk space.
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- The author, Folkert J. Wijnstra, will not be held liable to you
- or anyone for (but not limited to) any direct, indirect,
- incidental or consequential damages, including any lost profits,
- lost savings which may result from the use or inability to use
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- Folkert J. Wijnstra is in no way obligated to provide future
- versions of, or support for this software.
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- Your use of the program constitutes your agreement to this
- license and disclaimer and your release of the author from any
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- 1.2 Registration
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- This public gamma release (unlike future releases) may be used
- free of charge for individual hobby use. It is not allowed to use
- this version of FMail within a commercial environment (i.e.
- business, governmental organization, school, foundation, or any
- other form of juridical person).
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- If you like this program, sending me a netmail message would be
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- Please don't use crash mail, but use normal netmail routing or
- send your netmail message via node 2:282/1 (+31-5910-34029). You
- can do this by the following FMail command: FMail Pack 2:282/310
- via 2:282/1. On-line times for my node number 2:282/310 will be
- published in the FMAIL_HELP conference. More information about
- the availability of this echomail conference can be obtained from
- Rick Kelly (2:282/1) or me.
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- Folkert J. Wijnstra
- Ede, The Netherlands
- FidoNet 2:282/310 aka 2:283/203.17
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- 1.3 Files
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- The FMail echomail utility package consists of the following
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- FMAIL.EXE The main program. It is used for importing and
- exporting messages, packing of netmail messages
- and the AreaMgr function.
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- FSETUP.EXE Used to create and update the system data files
- and to export them to text files and
- configuration files used by other programs.
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- FTOOLS.EXE Message base maintenance utility.
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- FMAIL.DOC This documentation file.
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- AREAMGR.HLP An example help file that can be sent
- automatically to downlinks by FMail upon their
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- READ.ME Additional information about FMail.
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- The programs FMail.EXE and FSetup.EXE also create and use a
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- FMAIL.CFG General configuration file.
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- FMAIL.AR Contains the area configuration used by FMail.
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- FMAIL.NOD Contains the node configuration used by FMail.
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- FMAIL.PCK Contains the netmail routing information used by
- FMail's PACK function.
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- FMAIL.DUP Contains the database with signatures of messages
- used by FMail to detect messages that have been
- sent to your system before (duplicates). FMail
- keeps track of the last 16384 messages.
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- FMail will look for these files in the directory were FMail is
- located, even if the current directory is another one.
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- 1.4 System requirements
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- To use FMail you need an IBM PC, AT or 386 or fully compatible
- computer with a mono or color card and a harddisk. Also you need
- MS-DOS or PC DOS 3.3 or later. You should have at least FILES=20
- in your CONFIG.SYS. Use a higher value (e.g. FILES=40) if you are
- using the 'Extra handles' option.
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- In order to be able to send and receive mail, you need a mailer
- that is compatible with FTSC-0001. For reading and writing mail
- you need a message editor or a BBS program that uses the QuickBBS
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- ARC System Enhancement Associates
- ARJ Robert K Jung
- LHA Haruyasu Yoshizaki
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- PKZIP PKWARE Inc.
- ZOO Rahul Dhesi
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- * Internally FMail always uses 4 dimensional addresses. If
- FMail is handling mail from or to a fakenet address, the
- address will be internally converted into the corresponding
- 4-d address. If necessary, the 4-d address will be converted
- back into the fakenet address if that is required by the
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- As a consequence, all node numbers entered in the node
- manager or the area manager should be 4-d addresses !!!
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- * Enter your AKAs in FSetup in the same order as in FrontDoor's
- FDSetup, i.e. if you have AKA 3 in FrontDoor defined as
- 2:282/310, you should also define AKA 3 in FSetup as
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- * Fmail doesn't recognize file attach messages created by other
- echomail processors. As a consequence in the beginning it is
- possible that a second mail bundle is created for a
- particular node if there is already a mail bundle that was
- created by another echomail processor.
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- * When entering node numbers in FSetup or on the FMail command
- line, always use the 4 dimensional address for points, not
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- * Node numbers may be entered in an abbreviated way. FMail or
- FSetup will use the main node number to complete the node
- number. E.g. if you enter ".1" and the main node number is
- defined as 2:282/310, FMail will use 2:282/310.1. Likewise
- "1" will be changed into 2:282/1.
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- * FMail looks for the de-/compression utilities in the
- directories that are included in the DOS PATH statement.
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- * If one or more de-/compression utilities are not available on
- your system, you should remove them from FSetup. That way,
- they will not be mentioned in the AreaMgr confirmation report
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- * Packets created by FMail are not recognized by TosScan as
- being 4D. This may cause problems if FMail is used on a point
- system when the boss uses TosScan. There are several ways to
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- - Use a utility that changes the product code of a PKT
- files created by FMail to a code of a program that is
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- Use the DOS command CD to go to the FrontDoor system directory.
- After you type FSETUP and press the ENTER key, a menu pops up. If
- you use a monochrome monitor in combination with a video adapter
- with colour capabilities, you might want to force FSetup to not
- use any colours. You can do this by appending /M after the FSetup
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- FSetup has the capability to import the configuration files of a
- number of other echomail processors: IMAIL, TosScan and all
- programs using an AREAS.BBS file. Before using this capability
- however, you first should enter all node numbers you will be
- using and include the fake net numbers you are using any. This
- way, FMail will automatically convert all fake net addresses in
- the configuration files into 4 dimensional addresses that are be
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- FSetup is the full screen setup utility for FMail. FSetup is a
- menu oriented setup program. The following keys can be used:
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- - Move bar to the previous menu entry Up arrow
- - Move bar to the next menu entry Down arrow
- - Select option at the position of the bar Enter
- - Return to the previous menu
- (or exit if the current menu is the Main menu) ESC
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- When editing a data field in FSetup, the following options are
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- - Move one position to the left Left arrow
- - Move one position to the right Right arrow
- - Move to the first position
- of the previous word Ctrl-Left arrow
- - Move to the first position
- of the next word Ctrl-Right arrow
- - Move to the first position of the field Home
- - Move to the last position of the field End
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- current position of the cursor Delete
- - Delete the character left of the cursor Backspace
- - Delete rest of the field Ctrl-End
- - Clear the entire field Ctrl-Y
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- - Restore original contents of data field ESC
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- The main menu of FSetup contains six options:
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- Miscellaneous Allows you to enter general information about the
- message base and how messages should be handled.
- You also can specify the compression and
- decompression programs the should be used for
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- System info Information about directories, swapping,
- compression programs etc. can be entered via the
- System info sub menu.
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- Import/Export With the Import/Export option of FSetup you can
- export selected parts of the configuration to a
- text file or a printer. Also it is possible to
- import area and node configurations of IMAIL and
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- Pack Manager The pack manager is used to enter netmail routing
- information. This information is used by FMail's
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- Node Manager The node manager is used to review and update
- information about other nodes, like the password
- for AreaMgr and the node's capability.
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- The "Miscellaneous" menu contains six options, which will be
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- 3.2.1 General options
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- This options shows a menu that lets you enter general
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- Sysop Name
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- Your name. It is used for determining whether or not netmail
- should be imported into the message base netmail board and if
- a copy of an echomail message should be placed in the
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- Log file name (optional)
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- If you want a log file to be created, you should enter the
- desired path and filename here.
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- AreaMgr log
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- If you want a separate log file containing information about
- AreaMgr requests to be created, you should enter path and
- filename here. If left blank, information about AreaMgr
- requests will be inserted in the normal log file.
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- Currently FMail supports three log levels:
- 0 : Nothing will be written to the log file.
- 1 : All information except the message 'Tossing .....PKT
- from node ....' will be logged.
- 2 : All information will be logged.
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- Pers. mail path
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- If you enter a directory name here, a copy of each echomail
- message that is directed to you (even if it is in a pass-
- through area) will be placed in *.MSG format in this
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- Topic 2
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- it is tossing for up to two keywords. If messages are found
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- Include netmail
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- Indicates whether or not personal netmail should also be
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- This option shows a menu that lets you control the way the
- message base will be handled.
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- Bad message board
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- Message base board number of the board in which bad messages
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- Duplicate message board
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- Message base board number of the board in which duplicate
- messages will be stored.
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- Recovery board
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- Message base board number of the board to which FTools Maint
- /c will move messages in boards that are not defined in
- FSetup.
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- Import netmail to sysop
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- If set to "No", messages addressed to your name or to "Sysop"
- won't be imported into the message base. Has no effect if no
- netmail board number has been entered.
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- Remove 'Re:'
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- Some message editors put "Re:" before the actual subject when
- replying to a message. FMail is capable to remove "Re:" from
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- Remove lf/soft cr
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- Linefeeds and soft carriage returns are unnecessary in
- echomail messages. In order to save some diskspace, you may
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- Write the text of the message as it will be sent to other
- systems back to the message base. This means that the message
- in the message base will contain PATH and SEEN-BY
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- Sort new messages
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- If set to "Yes", new messages in the message base will be
- sorted according to subject and date.
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- Use subject
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- Apart from date/time also use the subject to sort messages.
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- Update reply chains
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- If set to "Yes", all message reply chains will be updated
- after messages have been tossed into the message base.
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- Multi-line mode
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- Allows concurrent access of FMail and the BBS software to the
- message base. DOS's SHARE should be installed.
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- Scan always
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- If set to "Yes", the messages base will always be completely
- scanned for outgoing messages. If set to "No" FMail relies on
- the files ECHOMAIL.BBS and NETMAIL.BBS to indicate new
- messages. If these files are found to be pointing to a
- message that doesn't qualify for export, a complete scan of
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- If enabled, this option slightly shortens the time needed by
- FMail after a packet has been tossed. Normally the message
- base files are closed and reopened between packets, but this
- options causes the files not to be closed. Using this option
- might under extreme conditions slightly increase the risk of
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- This option shows you a menu that lets you control certain
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- Dupe detection
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- Try to detect duplicate messages. If found, they will be
- placed in the duplicate messages directory (if defined).
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- Use EMS
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- Try to use EMS memory to store the signatures of messages in.
- This saves about 64 kb of conventional memory.
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- Check PKT destination
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- If this options is enabled, only packets that are addressed
- to one of your AKAs (or to one of your points if you are not
- a point yourself) will be tossed. Packets addressed to other
- nodes will be renamed to files with the file name extension
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- Max PKT size (kb)
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- The maximum size of an outgoing PKT file in kilobytes.
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- Keep receipts
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- Don't set the KILL attribute on receipts created by AreaMgr.
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- Remove netmail kludges
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- Some echomail processors cannot handle echomail messages
- containing netmail kludges (INTL, FMPT, TOPT). If some of
- your downlinks use such an echomail processor, you may want
- to enable the 'Remove netmail kludges' toggle. PLEASE CHECK
- THE ECHOMAIL POLICY OF YOUR NET BEFORE USING THIS OPTION.
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- Your main address and up to ten other addresses that you may use,
- can be entered in this window. If some of your points don't have
- 4-d capabilities, they will have to receive their mail using the
- fake net method. For each of the eleven addresses you may enter a
- fake net number. You can do this by appending it to your normal
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- FMail allows you to use different netmail boards for each of your
- AKA's. Information about these netmail areas can be entered in a
- sub menu. The information includes:
- - Message base board number. It is possible to use a board
- number for more than one AKA. If you do this, only the
- information of the first netmail area that uses a particular
- message base board will be used, e.g. by AutoExport to create
- the FrontDoor and GoldEd areas files and by FTools for
- determining which messages should be deleted.
- - A comment that will be used in the areas files that can be
- created by FSetup AutoExport feature.
- - Information that can be used by FTools for message base
- maintenance purposes.
- - Security information to be used in MESSAGES.RA. For more
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- you are referred to the RemoteAccess documentation.
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- To save some time when installing new areas in the Area Manager,
- you may enter a number of default settings that will be used for
- new areas. Of course, these values may be changed in the Area
- Manager, should it be necessary. For more information about the
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- The system info menu is used for various types of information
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- 3.3.1 Directories
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- In the 'Directories' window you can enter eight paths to
- directories that will be used for specific files. Unless stated
- otherwise, no directory should be used for more than one purpose!
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- Message base
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- The message base path points to the directory where the
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- Netmail
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- The netmail directory contains netmail messages in *.MSG
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- The incoming mail directory is the directory where your
- mailer stores its received files. Incoming mail bundles will
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- Sometimes for some reason packets are not tossed by FMail. If
- this is the case, the PKT files will be renamed. The file
- name extensions of these remaining files indicate the nature
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- PKT If there is not enough free disk space on your harddisk
- when a incoming PKT file is being tossed, FMail aborts
- and the PKT file remains in the 'Incoming mail'
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- QQQ If FMail for some reason can't compress an outgoing
- mailbundle, the file name extension will be changed
- from PKT into QQQ. If FMail is run again, it will first
- try to compress any packets with the QQQ extension if
- found.
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- SEC The password in this packet did not correspond with the
- password for the source node in the node manager.
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- DST The mail packet is not directed to your main node
- number or one of your AKAs.
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- ERR For some reason, the PKT header could not be read.
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- Outgoing mail
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- In the outgoing mail directory FMail will store the mail
- bundles it creates for other nodes.
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- Secure (optional)
-
- If you are using some program that creates PKT files that you
- would like to have tossed by FMail, there may be a problem if
- you have security enabled in the Area Manager. Placing those
- packets in the Secure directory will cause FMail to toss
- them, even if security is enabled for that particular
- echomail conference.
- CAUTION: Be very careful with what PKT files you place in the
- Secure directory. It is very easy to create dupes this way!
-
- Semaphore (optional)
-
- Indicates whether or not FMail should create FDRESCAN.NOW and
- FMRESCAN.NOW after netmail has been tossed. If the FD
- environment variable has been set, these files will be
- created in the directory indicated by this variable.
- Otherwise, they will be created in the directory in which
- FMail is located.
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- Sent mail (optional)
- Received mail (optional)
-
- If the 'Sent mail' and/or 'Received mail' directories are
- defined, FMail will move sent and/or received netmail from
- the netmail directory to the appropriate directory: mail that
- has been sent, will be moved to the 'Sent mail' directory if
- defined. Message that have been received by the addressee
- will be moved to the 'Received mail' directory. Messages with
- special attributes (file attach, in-transit) will never be
- moved to either one of these directories. Sent mail and
- Received mail may point to the same directory.
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- 3.3.2 Swapping
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- Under some circumstances, there may not be enough memory left to
- execute a (de)compression utility. To make sure that there is
- enough memory available, you may want to enable swapping. This
- means that FMail will temporarily remove itself from memory in
- order to make room for the (de)compression utility.
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- There are three types of swapping available. The slowest type is
- swapping to disk. FMail will try to swap itself to disk if the
- other two methods are not available. These other two methods are
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- swapping to EMS and swapping to XMS. If both swapping to EMS and
- swapping to XMS are enabled, FMail will first try XMS and if that
- doesn't work EMS. If you are running FMail under DESQview or a
- similar program, make sure that there is enough EMS or XMS
- available to FMail. Under DESQview the amount of EMS/XMS that is
- available in a window can be changed via 'Change a Program'->
- 'Maximum Expanded Memory Size'. It should be left blank or be set
- to at least 700 kb.
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- You may set the directory in which the swap file will be located
- by entering the path to the desired directory. If left blank, the
- swap file will be placed in the directory where FMail is located.
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- 3.3.3 Compression
-
- The programs that are used to compress your outgoing mail bundles
- are listed here. FMail can handle six different types of
- archivers: ARC, ZIP, LZH, PAK, ZOO and ARJ. First the name of the
- program should be listed, followed by optional arguments. Default
- settings for each of these programs are automatically created by
- FSetup when it is run for the first time.
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- It is important to add the proper command line switches for the
- compression utilities. You must make sure that the programs are
- not waiting for additional input such as a response to a Yes/No
- prompt.
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- The archiving utility listed behind "Default" is used for nodes
- not listed in the Node Manager.
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- 3.3.4 Decompression
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- The programs that are used to decompress your incoming mail
- bundles are listed here. For more information see section 3.3.3
- (Compression).
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- 3.3.5 Monochrome
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- If enabled, FSetup will not use color, even if a color card is
- detected. This may be useful on systems using a monochrome
- monitor in combination with a color card.
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- 3.3.6 Extra handles
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- If you have more than about 10 downlinks and you want FMail to
- run faster, you should enable the 'Extra handles' toggle. This
- causes FMail to use up to 40 handles for files instead of 20.
- ATTENTION: if you are running more than one program at the same
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- other programs when FMail is using up to 40 handles.
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- 3.4 Import/export
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- All menu options starting with "List" allow you to send
- information about parts of your FMail setup to a text file or to
- the printer. If you want to send it to the printer, just enter
- PRN as the file name.
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- 3.4.1 Import Config
-
- The option "Import config" allows you to import AREAS.BBS,
- FOLDER.FD and area and node configuration files of two other
- popular echomail processors: IMAIL (version 1.20 and up) and
- TosScan. In some cases you have the choice whether to use the
- area tag or to use the comment to identify an area in the config
- file that is created by FSetup.
-
- A special option is Import RA info. It imports RA security
- information into an EXISTING FMail areas file. If you don't
- already have an FMail areas file, enter the information manually
- in the Area Manager or use one of the other import functions
- first. When you start the Import RA info option, the program will
- try to find security information in MESSAGES.RA for each area
- that is defined in FMail.Ar and insert it in that file.
-
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- 3.4.2 AutoExport
-
- Normally when a new area is installed, this had to be done in a
- number of programs. With FSetup's AutoExport feature this is no
- longer necessary. Each update in the Area Manager will
- automatically result in an update of AREAS.BBS, FOLDER.FD,
- MESSAGES.RA and a file in a format that can be used by GoldEd.
-
- All you have to do is to enter the path to the directory in which
- the desired file should appear (the actual filename should not be
- added; FSetup will append a standard name to the path).
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- With FOLDER.FD and MESSAGES.RA you may choose which item should
- be used: the area tag or the comment field.
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- Entries in the Pack Manager should use the same format as the
- command line when using the Pack command. For more information
- about this format see section 4.4.
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- Entries in the Pack Manager are used from top to bottom: the
- first entry that applies to a particular message will be used for
- that message. An example:
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- 2:282/357 2:282/309 via 2:282/301
- 2:283/216 via 2:283/203
- 1:* 2:* 3:* 4:* 5:* 6:* via 2:282/1
- 2:282/* /C
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- This example packs all messages for nodes 2:282/357, 2:282/309
- and 2:282/301 that do not have the crash, hold or orphan status
- and sends them to node 2:282/301. Messages for 2:283/216 and
- 2:283/203 are packed and sent to node 2:283/203. All remaining
- messages for zones 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 will be sent to 2:282/1.
- Crash messages for nodes in net 282 will be packed and sent to
- those nodes directly.
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- The node manager is used to store information about the nodes you
- exchange mail with.
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- Node
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- The node number of a node. IMPORTANT: This node number should
- always be the normal node number i.e. you should NEVER enter
- a node number containing a fake net. If it is necessary for
- some of your points that you send them their mail using a
- fake net, you should set their capability to "Stone Age" (see
- below) and define a fake net in the Addresses window.
-
- Sysop Name
-
- Here you may enter the name of the sysop of the remote node.
- A this moment, the name of the sysop will only be used in
- AreaMgr replies.
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- Capability
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- You can tell FMail whether or not the software of the other
- node recognizes 4-d addresses (FSC-0039) or only 2-d
- addresses by setting the capability switch to "Type 2+" for
- 4-d or "Stone Age" for 2-d. If you want to send mail to one
- of your "Stone Age" points, FMail will automatically try to
- use the fake net method. In most cases setting the capability
- of a node to Type 2+ will be fine.
-
- Archiving utility
-
- The "Archiving utility" toggle can be used to set the type of
- archiving program that will be used to compress mail for this
- node. A node is able to change this setting using an AreaMgr
- request message.
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- Status
-
- You may set the status of the file attach messages for a node
- to "None", "Hold", "Crash", "Hold/Direct" and "Crash/Direct".
-
- Groups
-
- The area manager lets you assign a group letter to each echo
- area. In the node manager you can enter the letters of the
- groups that are available to a particular node. Enter an
- asterisk if all areas should be available to a particular
- node.
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- Tiny SEEN-BYs
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- If you set the "Tiny SEEN-BYs" switch to "Yes", this node
- will receive echo mail messages in which only you and your
- downlinks will be listed in the SEEN-BY lines. In normal
- situations this switch should be set to "No".
-
- Reformat date
-
- Some echomail utilities create date strings which are not in
- accordance with the specifications. Some other echomail
- utilities have problems recognizing those date strings. FMail
- will send a corrected date string to a node if "Reformat
- date" is set to yes.
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- AreaMgr password
-
- The AreaMgr password is used by a remote node to connect or
- disconnect echomail areas. To do this, the remote node has to
- send a message to "AreaMgr", "AreaFix" or "FMail" at your
- node number. The password should be on the subject line.
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- Packet password
-
- If you enter an Packet password, FMail will only toss packets
- from this node if the listed password is present in the
- header of the received packet. The password also will be
- placed in the header of each packet created for this node.
- The combination of packet password and the Security option in
- the Area Manager should make it a bit more difficult to
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- The area manager is used to tell FMail which echomail conferences
- (areas) you are carrying. Each of the fields will now be
- explained in detail.
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- Area name
-
- This is the name of the conference. It can be up to 24
- characters long. This name is often referred to as the area
- tag. It is inserted into every message that your system
- exports for an area so that other system's echomail
- processors can put the message into the correct area when it
- arrives.
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- Comment
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- This field is used to give some info about an echomail area
- in messages that are returned by AreaMgr. It also appears in
- the output of some of the list functions in the Import/export
- menu.
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- Active
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- If the 'Active' switch is off, the area will no longer be
- recognized by FMail as a valid echomail area. This switch can
- be used to temporarily disable a particular area.
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- Local
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- If you have local message areas in your message base, you
- should enter those areas in FSetup with Local set to Yes.
- That way, you can enter message base maintenance information
- for that area and make sure, that the boardnumber cannot be
- accidentally assigned to another area. Also those areas will
- be marked as Local in AutoExported files.
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- Board
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- The "Board" field is used to select the message base board
- number in which the messages in this area should be imported.
- If you select this option, a window pops up containing all
- possible board numbers and the word "None". The board numbers
- that are displayed in a dark colour are already used by
- another area. If you select the word "None", the messages
- won't be imported into the message base, but only forwarded
- to your downlinks (a so called "Pass-through area"). Use the
- cursor keys to go to the desired board number and press ENTER
- to select.
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- The "Group" field defines which group a conference belongs
- to. The valid range for this field is A through Z. It's used
- to regulate the availability of conferences to other nodes.
- You should divide your conferences into a number of
- categories. For example, all conferences that only a few
- people should be able to access could be put into group S for
- Secure while all other conferences are put into G for
- General.
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- RA info
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- Here you may enter the security level and flags and other
- information that will be used in RA's MESSAGES.RA.
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- Security
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- Only messages from nodes that are connected to a particular
- conference are accepted by FMail.
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- Private
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- If the "Private" field is set to "Yes", private message are
- allowed in this conference. Otherwise, the private bit will
- be removed from all messages in this conference.
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- Tiny SeenBy
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- If set to "Yes", all of your downlinks that are connected to
- this area will receive messages in which the SEEN-BY lines
- will only contain your downlinks.
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- Imp. SeenBy
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- If set to "Yes", SEEN-BY information of messages in this
- conference will be imported into the message base.
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- # Messages
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- Maximum number of messages in an area. If there are more
- messages in an area, they will be deleted as soon as FTools
- Maint /d is used.
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- # Days
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- If there are messages in an area that are older than the
- number of days that is entered here, they will be deleted as
- soon as FTools Maint /d is used.
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- Use the date that a message arrived on your system instead of
- the date that a message was written when deleting messages
- using the # Days criterium. This option does not work with
- messages with an extremely long subject line. For these
- messages the date that the message was written will be used.
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- Sysop
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- Do not remove any message that has not been read by the Sysop
- (the user with the first entry in Users.BBS). If this switch
- is set to Yes, no message that has not been read by the SysOp
- will be deleted, if it should be deleted according to one or
- more of the other criteria.
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- Origin
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- The origin is the address that will be added to the PATH and
- SEEN-BY lines. It will also used in the origin line that will
- be appended by FMail if the message that is exported from the
- message base doesn't contain an origin line (NOTE: FMail will
- NEVER add tear and/or origin lines to messages that are
- received from other systems in case they are missing).
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- Other AKAs
-
- If you want to add more than one of your AKAs to the SEEN-BY
- lines of a message, you should use the "Other AKAs" options
- to indicate which AKAs should be added also.
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- Origin line
-
- If a message that is exported out of the message base does
- not contain a origin line, FMail will add one. This added
- origin will contain a text string that may be entered here.
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- Export
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- The systems connected to the conference are listed in a
- window which pops up when you select the option "Connected
- systems". IMPORTANT: The node number should always be the
- normal node number i.e. you should NEVER enter a node number
- containing a fake net. FMail automatically uses the fake net
- if necessary.
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- The actual FMail program has four main commands. They are "Scan",
- "Toss", "Import" and "Pack" and will be discussed in detail
- below.
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- Scan the message base for outgoing echomail and netmail messages.
- Echomail messages will be packet to be sent to other nodes.
- Netmail messages will be moved to the netmail directory. They may
- be packed later by the FMail Pack command discussed below.
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- The Scan option can be used in combination with three switches:
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- /E Scan for echomail messages only
- /N Scan for netmail messages only
- /S Scan the entire message base (ignore ECHOMAIL.BBS and
- NETMAIL.BBS)
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- ATTENTION: FMail's SCAN function does not yet support netmail
- credits.
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- Tosses received mail bundles into the message base and forwards
- echomail messages to your downlinks.
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- The /B switch may be added to let FMail check all messages in the
- bad messages directory to see whether they are valid echomail
- messages or not. This may necessary if you are receiving a new
- conference from your uplink but forgot to enter it in the area
- manager. Messages that are moved to the message base using the /B
- switch will not be sent to your downlinks as this may cause
- duplicate messages to be sent into the net.
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- Imports netmail messages destined for your node into the message
- base. A netmail board should be defined in FSetup. Whether or not
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- Packs and compresses netmail messages. These messages may be
- routed through a specified node or may be sent directly.
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- The syntax of FMail Pack:
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- FMail Pack [<node> ... [VIA <node>]
- [/C] [/H] [/I] [/L] [/O] ]
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- The one or more <node> entries before the optional VIA specify
- the nodes for which messages should be packed. The * macro may be
- used here. E.g. 2:282/* specifies all nodes in net 282 in zone 2.
- If a VIA node is added, all messages will be routed though this
- node. Otherwise all messages will be packed and sent to their
- original destination.
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- The Pack command may be used in combination with five switches:
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- /C Include messages with Crash status. Normally these messages
- will not be packed.
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- /H Include messages with Hold status. Normally these messages
- will not be packed.
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- /O Include orphaned messages. Normally these messages will not
- be packed.
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- /I Only pack messages that are in transit. Normally all
- netmail messages destined for other nodes will be packed.
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- /L Only pack messages that originated on your system. Normally
- all netmail messages destined for other nodes will be
- packed.
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- If the command line does not contain any node numbers and VIA
- information, the information stored in FSetup's Pack Manager will
- be used. The format of entries in the Pack Manager is the same as
- described above.
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- In the examples below, it is assumed that 2:282/310 is one of
- your AKAs.
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- FMail Pack 2:282/1
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- Packs netmail for 2:282/1 and points of that node and sends
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- Packs mail for points of 2:282/310 and sends it to those
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- Packs mail for nodes 2:282/301, 2:282/500 and 2:282/1 and
- points of those nodes and sends it to 2:282/1
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- Packs mail for nodes 2:282/301 and 2:282/500 and points of
- these nodes and sends it to these nodes (mail for points will
- be sent to their boss)
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- Packs mail for point 2:282/1.1 and sends it directly to that
- point since the point number is listed explicitly. If you
- want to route it to the boss of that point, you will have add
- 'via 2:282/1'. Messages with the Crash status will also be
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- AreaMgr is a built-in function of FMail that allows other systems
- to connect or disconnect echomail areas by simply sending a
- netmail message.
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- This netmail message should be addressed to one of your AKAs and
- directed to 'AreaMgr' or 'FMail'. For compatibility reasons the
- message may also be directed to 'AreaFix', 'AreaLink' or
- 'EchoMgr'. Instead of the normal subject, a password should be
- entered. For each system that will be allowed to send AreaMgr
- messages to your, you should create an entry in the node manager
- containing a password.
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- The message body of an AreaMgr request contains the requested
- mutations in connected echomail areas. To connect to area
- TEST_AREA you just enter that name followed by the ENTER key. To
- disconnect from an area, just put a minus '-' before the area
- tag.
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- The format of an AreaLink request:
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- By: <your name>
- To: AreaMgr (<node number of dest node>)
- Re: <AreaMgr password>
- St: Pvt
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- [+]<areaname> To connect to an area
- -<areaname> To disconnect from an area
- %ARCHIVER=xxx To change the archiving program used for your
- mail
- %HELP To request this message
- %LIST To request a list of areas available to you
- %QUERY To request a list of areas for which you are
- active
- %UNLINKED To request a list of areas to which you are not
- connected
- %-ALL To disconnect from all areas
- %+ALL To connect to all available areas
- [---] Everything below the tear line is ignored
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- a reply, containing the result of the request. This reply will
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- By: FMail
- To: Folkert Wijnstra, FMail Development (2:282/310.1)
- Re: FMail AreaMgr confirmation report
- St: Pvt Hold Local
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- Confirmation report of connected areas for 2:282/310.1 on
- 2:282/310
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- * C_ECHO
- ENET.SOFT
- * ENET.SYSOP
- INTERUSER
- * NET_DEV
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- You are connected to 3 of 5 available areas.
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- Your mail is being compressed using the ARJ method.
- Available compression methods are: ARC ZIP LZH PAK ZOO ARJ
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- FTools is the message base maintenance program that comes with
- FMail. It is e.g. used to remove old messages from the message
- base and the display information about the message base. FTools
- can be divided into four parts, which will be discussed below.
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- To delete all messages in a particular board in the message base,
- enter
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- FTools Delete <board number>
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- The most important function of FTools is message base
- maintenance. If started without any switches, FTools Maint only
- updates the reply chains and recreates the index files.
- Additional features are available by using command line switches:
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- /C Recover messages in undefined boards. This means that
- messages in message base boards that are not defined in the
- Area Manager will be moved to the recovery board, if that
- board was defined in FSetup. IMPORTANT: If no recovery board
- number was defined, those messages will be deleted! So please
- make sure, that your non-echomail boards are also defined in
- the Area Manager, with the Active switch set to No.
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- /D Delete messages using the information in the Area Manager.
- See section 3.7 for more information about the criteria that
- may be used to delete messages.
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- /N Renumber the message base. All messages in the message base
- will be renumbered. First message will become message #1 etc.
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- /P Pack (remove deleted messages). When a message in the message
- base is deleted, the actual message is still present in the
- message base. It will only be marked as being deleted. In
- order to keep the message base size within reasonable limits,
- the message base has to be packet regularly, i.e. deleted
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- /R Remove "Re:" from subject lines. Some editors put "Re:" in
- front of the actual subject line, when a reply is written.
- This switch allows you to remove it.
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- /U Undelete deleted messages. Deleted messages cannot be
- undeleted after the message base has been packed.
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- To move messages from one board to another board in the message
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- FMail uses the SPAWNO 3.0 routines by Ralf Brown to minimize
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- The following copyrighted programs are mentioned in this manual
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- ARC Systems Enhancements Associates
- ARJ Robert K. Jung
- Turbo C Borland International, Inc.
- FrontDoor,
- TosScan Joaquim Homrighausen
- GEcho Gerard van der Land
- IBM,
- PC DOS International Business Machines Corp.
- IMAIL Fabiano Fabris
- LHA Haruyasu Yoshizaki
- MicroSoft,
- MS-DOS MicroSoft Corporation
- PAK NoGate Consulting
- PKZIP PKWARE, Inc.
- QEMM,
- DESQview Quarterdeck Office Systems, Inc.
- QuickBBS Richard Creighton & Steve Gabrilowitz
- RemoteAccess,
- RA,
- RAMSG Andrew Milner
- XRS Mike Ratledge
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- I would like to thank all of my beta testers for the time they
- invested in testing a program that was completely unknown to them
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- Jos Bergman, Sandra Nooren, Peter Sykora, Roelf Renkema, Alex
- Brandsma, Jan Berends, Hans Luiks, Herman Kuipers, Hylko
- Stockmann, Willem de Langen, Peter Kauffman, Kris Lebacq, Theo
- Runia, Aldert van der Laan, Sico Bruins, Ari Sadarjoen, Henk
- Noppe, Peter van der Steen, Reijer Grisnigt, Gerrit Oberink, Henk
- Catsburg, Hans de Vor, Jack Raats, Klaas Haan, Piet Kampen, Wil
- de Groot, Jean Cremers, Gerben Cadee, Peter Kelders, Pierre van
- Geyt, Tom Jansma, Rene van der Bron, Jan Marten Eric Elzinga,
- Severinus Planting, Albert Siersema, Ronald Faber, Ad Wisse, Cor
- Doornbos, Tanja Gommers, Ben van Looy, Feico de Boer, Rick Kelly,
- Henk van de Weerdt, Jan Hoolwerf, Peter Lindeman, Jan Winters,
- Ivan Ferrol, Stefan Franck, Urbaan Schoonderwoerd, Marcel
- Bolhuis, Harry van Tilburg, Peter van Dolderen, Ron Baltzer,
- Harold Schuring, Art Laarman, Raf van Hoof and (last but not
- least) Gerard van der Land.
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- APPENDIX A - Error messages
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- Below some of FMail's error messages are listed with a brief
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- Bad node in pack list
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- There was a syntax error in the list of nodes that should be
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- Bad VIA node
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- There was a syntax error in the node number after the
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- Can't lock the message base for update
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- FMail couldn't lock the message base for update in a
- multiline environment. If after several retries this message
- doesn't go away, reboot your computer, because some program
- may have locked the message base without unlocking it when it
- was finished.
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- Can't read FMAIL.CFG
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- FMail couldn't find FMAIL.CFG in the directory where the
- currently running executable in located.
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- Disk-related error
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- FMail has a problem reading or writing some file. This might
- be caused by a full disk.
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- FMail requires at least DOS 3.3
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- Some functions of FMail require the presence of DOS 3.3 or
- higher. DR DOS should also work.
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- Main nodenumber not defined in FSetup
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- FMail won't work without one!
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- configured in the Node Manager as being a "Stone Age" system,
- and thus requiring a fake net number which was not defined.
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- Warning: Node xxx is not defined in the Node Manager
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- You are trying to send mail to a node which is not listed in
- the Node Manager. As a consequence, FMail does not know what
- the capability of the remote system is, which compression
- program should be used and status the resulting file attach
- message should have. If this is the case, FMail will use
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- * The FTSC assigned product code for FMail is 0x81 (= 129
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- * FMail can handle upto 500 echomail conferences of which upto
- 200 may be imported into the message base.
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- * FMail is fully zone and point aware.
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- * The mail packets created by FMail are FTS-0001, FTS-0004 and
- FSC-0039 compatible, using the Type 2+ packet header and the
- Capability Word. FMail also recognizes Type 2.2 (FSC-0045)
- packet headers.
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- * If an AREA: tag is preceded by a ^A, it is still recognized
- by FMail. Also tags in lower case are recognized.
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- * SEEN-BY and PATH lines are created and updated, but they are
- not used by FMail for duplicate detection purposes.
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- * FMail can parse both Fido/Opus and SEAdog style date fields.
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- * FMail supports the RemoteAccess/FrontDoor Hudson Message Base
- sharing specifications.
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- * FMail was written in C and compiled using Borland's Turbo C
- Version 2.0.
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- * File input/output is performed using standard DOS file handle
- calls.
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- * The programs automatically detect the video environment and
- write directly to the screen or DESQview screen buffer.
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- 3 Control-break pressed
- 2 Insufficient memory available
- 1 Insufficient disk space available or disk error
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