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- Subject: Re: NOS+SM0RGV mbox comments/questions
- From: klemets
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 90 01:34:34 +0100
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- > (3) I'm confused about the way mbox handles incoming mail. Where are the
- > AREAS kept on the disk? Is there some way they are supposed to point to
- > the normal \spool\mail\***.txt files used by BM?
-
- The AREAS are ordinary mail files that can be read by BM.
- Normally, you can only switch to those areas that are listed by the Area
- command. However, a user that has "sysop" privileges, i.e. one that can
- use the @-command, can also change area to somebody elses private mail
- file.
-
- The Areas file should reside in the \spool directory of your drive.
- The file should have the name of the area as the first word on a line.
- A line that looks something like this:
-
- packet Blah blah blah
-
- will cause the file \spool\mail\packet.txt to be used.
-
- One minor detail about the areas: If somebody who does not have the Sysop
- privilege bit set reads messages from a public message area, the messages
- will be marked as read only for the duration of the session. The BBS
- does not keep track of which messages a user have read, not yet anyway.
-
- However, if a user with Sysop privileges reads a public message area,
- or somebody elses mail, the messages will be marked as read. This is
- supposed to be a feature, not a bug. I assume that the principal user of
- the BBS will be the local Sysop, i.e. the owner of the machine. He may
- want to get his mailing lists sent to different mail areas (= usernames)
- and move his normal mail into different folders (= usernames).
- This is why messages are marked as read when the Sysop reads them in any
- area. There is no way, at least yet, for the BBS to determine if a username
- belongs to a real user or if it is a mail folder used by the Sysop.
-
- Anders
-