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Check and adapt your batches! 5) During the betatest, we sometimes experienced problems with the spawning functions. This happened especially if Single Bundle extract and/or Compress after each PKT are used. If you have problems (eg. IMAIL is unable to execute a decompressor) try it again with these options disabled. NEW FEATURES since Version 1.40G3 ----------------------------------- *** GENERAL + IMAIL now logs on the screen and in the logfile whenever wrong commandline switches are found. *** IMAIL + Added an additional functionality to the dupe functions. Whenever the IMAIL.DPI (dupe database index) is missing or has a wrong size, the maitenance function is called and the index is recreated from the information in IMAIL.DP. + Extended the number of entries in the Foward Link Manager to 15. + Added support for the ECHOMAIL.JAM which is expected under this name in the IMAIL home directory (where the IMAIL environment variable points to). IMAIL can still use the ECHOTOSS.LOG for this purpose and this remains the faster way. + Added support for the RA 1.10 Hudson base locking sheme (MBUNLOCK.NOW). If IMAIL finds this file before locking the Hudson base, it waits 90 time slices and gives control back (so in a multitasking environment another program gets enough time to run). Also the MBUNLOCK.NOW is created when an attempt to lock the Hudson base fails. + Added a directory item where the path to the dupe data base can be defined. This allows to put the dupe base also on the local hardrive in a network environment. + Reworked the disk space checks. IMAIL now allows to configure three values: Disk Space before unpack (on the Temp. PKT Inbound) Disk Space before tossing(on the Temp. PKT Outbound) Disk Space before compressing (on the Outbound) The required values are counted in MB (MegaBytes) and can be found under Special Parameters. + IMAIL now writes a further semaphore when new areas have been created while tossing mail: IMAIL.NAR + Added Node statistics, IMAIL now logs the number and the amount of mail exported/imported for a node (if it is in the Node Manager). + Extended the 'kill dead' function which now allows to 1) disable the kill dead function 2) work only on echos with FwdReq pending or 3) work on all echos. *** IMALNK + The rescan function now also supports Jam. + The areas where the forward request is currently pending are listed seperately after the other areas (when using %LIST, %QUERY or %UNLINKED). + Added a create group to the forward link request manager. If a group is specified there, the created area gets this group, otherwise the group from the node record of the uplink is used. + Added a "No current link" message if an already unlinked area should be again unlinked. + IMALNK now also informs about the attach status when the %INFO request is used. + Added a 'manual only' flag which will disable any access from Arealink to this record. It's yet not functional. + Added a 'FwdReq pending' flag which shows that an area has been forwarded and that no mail has been arrived in that area until now. The status is displayed in the Area Manager as [FwdReq pending]. + Added an access group field to the forward link request manager. If this field contains a valid group-character, the requester needs access to this group to generate forward requests to the defined uplink. If no group is specified, everyone can request echos from the defined uplink. *** IMSETUP + When autocreating areas, you can now select whether IMAIL should use the newer tag-names or crc-names for the Jam, Squish or *.MSG area file name (Special Parameters, Use Crc filenames). + Added a switch to the Node Manager to select whether the PKT password should be checked in PKTs coming from this node. If this switch is set to N, IMAIL still adds the PKT password, but does not check it anymore. + IMAIL now offers to move a message base when the path of an area was changed manually (and the msg base type remained the same). + When deleting a node, the Node Manager now also allows to remove this node from the area database. + When changing an address of a node, the Node Manager, now allows to change the address in the area database, too. + When making a Squish/Jam/Msg area passthrough, IMSETUP now allows to delete the releated base, too. + When switching a Hudson/Passthrough area to Squish/Jam/Msg and if no path is already defined, IMAIL automatically creates a path+basename. IMSETUP loads the group-record using the already defined group and the areatag to generate the path+basename. + Areas with 'FwdReq pending' are now marked with a 'F' in the areas browser. + Added config item for the Create Group in the Forward Link Request Manager. + It is now possible to specify a path for the areas action log. + Added a window for the node statistics, F7 from the normal view, F9 when editing a node record. + Added some new things (FwdReq only, manual only) to the Area Manager and the config item for the kill dead function (General configuration, other parameters). *** IMTHINGS + LINK now can also remove replylinks in Jam-areas. + POST now also uses the max msg size from Imsetup. BUGFIXES since Version 1.40G3 ----------------------------- *** IMAIL - IMAIL counted wrong when scanning netmails from the Hudson base. - Finally fixed the problem where IMAIL added a 0x01 to the pathname when creating a new filename for a Jam/Squish/Msg area. - IMAIL did not strip a the local flag in Jam areas (when importing the message into the Jam base). - IMAIL now longer wraps too long lines in the output window. - SCAN trashed the memory when scanning msgs from Jam areas which were bigger then 4 kB. - Reworked the scanning of Jam areas. It was possible that trash was added after a message. - TOSS could kill areas although the number of days was set to zero. - SCAN used a wrong PKT password in Jam areas. - SCAN used a wrong origin address in Jam and Hudson areas. - The dupechecking could trash memory on MSGIDs longer than 512 bytes in a line (means no \r or \n within 512 chars). - When zone-gating a message into the own zone, TOSS did not strip the SEEN-BYs of the other zone. - TOSS no longer imports "arealink" messages into an echoarea. - IMAIL did only recognize areafix names in caps when checking for areafix messages in the echomail. - The PKT password handling was broken. - IMAIL wrote possibly a too long area description into the area record when creating areas automatically. - Kill Dead Echos used a wrong aka for the unlink requests. - IMAIL reported 'Possible dupe rings' on Import only systems. - IMAIL wrote a wrong destaddress to the screen/log when exporting netmails. - The Unlink-All feature (Unlink on non-passthrough areas) did not work. - IMAIL did not add a space between origin text and network address. - Corrected the 'check for arealink msgs in echomails' in TOSS which did not work sometimes. *** IMALNK - Reworked and fixed the %FROM and the %RECEIPT handling. - The %QUERY report did not mark paused areas. - IMALNK/IMAIL created new Jam areas (according to the Group Manager) as passthrough areas. - IMALNK no longer creates an empty message (if only %LIST, %QUERY, %UNLINKED, %HELP or %INFO was requested). - IMAIL reported a wrong PKT origin address in the %INFO request. - IMALNK did not reset the Unlink flag when relinking an unlinked area. - IMALNK no longer just ignores remote maint requests if the requester is not allowed to use them. Now the requester is informed about this. - IMALNK now also checks whether requester and uplink belong to the same domain if the forward lists are used to prevent eg. a FidoNet node from requesting a ZyXEL-Net echo. *** IMSETUP - ESC did not work when editing the list of linked systems. - When switching 'Import Seen-Bys' off, IMSETUP now also turns off 'Hide Seens'. - The import/export of areas.bbs did not support JAM areas. Jam areas are indicated by a '!' before the path in an areas.bbs file. - IMSETUP no longer accepts paths in the compression or decompression setup. *** IMTHINGS - SORT was not able to handle Hudson bases larger than about 10000 msgs. - The log output while running KILL was wrong. - When packing an empty Jam area, a divide error could occur. - PACK used too small RA 2.00 userbase structres (fixed with IMTHINGS 1.40G3a). CHANGES from Version 1.40G3 --------------------------- *** GENERAL ! Included a new version of the internal spawn function (3.3 instead of 3.0). A problem can occur whenever a critical error or a CTRL-C occurs during the spawn and these interrupts are not handled by own TSRs or by the called program. The handlers of IMAIL are not checked by the spawn function! This is yet not solved. ! Changed the command line parameters and the according help texts: IMAIL SCAN: /Q -> /H /S -> /O IMTHINGS KILL: /Q -> /H /S -> /S, /M and /J IMTHINGS LINK: /Q -> /H /S -> /S, /M and /J IMTHINGS PACK: /Q -> /H /S -> /S, /M and /J ! IMAIL.QBS has been replaced by IMAIL.HUD. *** IMAIL ! IMAIL now shows a message on the screen when a PKT is renamed due to a wrong PKT password. ! IMAIL now converts the MSGID to upper case to improve the detection of gated dupes. ! Zonegating currently works only with one node in another zone, because the SEEN-BYs of outgoing messages will only contain the own and the destination address. ! When using Compress after each PKT, IMCOMP is now only called if *.PKT are waiting in the Temp. PKT Outbound (to reduce overhead). *** IMALNK ! If an extended helpfile is defined but does not exist, IMALNK now tries to send the normal helpfile. ! The compression method was missing in the %INFO report. ! ALNK now also handles a ',' behind the areatag when unlinking an area. *** IMCOMP ! The numbering of the arcmail bundles now starts with '0'. *** IMSETUP ! Imsetup now accepts the sysop name as entered by the sysop. ! Moved the Forward Link Manager to the Main Menu and changed the hot keys. ! Imsetup now uses an 'H' for Hudson areas instead of the 'Q'. ! The Area Manager no longer accepts wildcards in areatags (like '*', '?', '[', ']'). ! Splitted the Arealink options menu and moved the Forward Link Data into an own menu to allow more entries. ! IMSETUP does no longer accept a '@' in a domain name, everything before the '@' and the '@' itself will be stripped. ! IMSETUP now defaults to "Insert Mode on" and the cursor form has switched. A large cursor indicates overwrite mode, a small cursor insert mode. ! The data input fields (except the switches) got a new behaviour. If the first character is a printable character, the field is cleared. ! The kill dead value can now be up to 256 days. ! The number of dupe records can now be up to 999999 but I recommend to use not more than 130000 otherwise TOSS will slow down. ! Splitted the Other Parameters Window into two menus. The first one (Other Parameters) contains items which are required by most users. The second one (Special Parameters) contains items which are for the experienced user. ! The Group Manager has been moved to the Main menu. *** IMTHINGS ! PACK now compares the filesize of the userbase with the record size of the selected userbase type. If the userbase does not contain an integer number of records, PACK does not modify the userbase at all (both for old style as well as for RA 2.00 user bases) and notes this in the logfile. ! Reduced the number of memory alloc/free when packing Squish areas. ! Corrected the log entries for IMPORT.