home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
-
- Souper User Manual - version 1.5
-
-
- Souper - transfer mail and news to SOUP
-
- Souper is a program that transfers mail and news from a POP3 mail server
- and NNTP news server respectively to SOUP packets. It can also send
- messages in SOUP reply packets. It runs on OS/2 Warp with the IBM
- Internet Connection for OS/2.
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Copy the souper.exe file to a directory in your PATH.
-
- Edit your \tcpip\etc\services file. Look for a line beginning with the
- word "pop3". If the file does not contain such a line, add the line
-
- pop3 110/tcp
-
- to the file.
-
- Souper is designed to work with the IBM Internet Connection for OS/2. In
- your PPP/SLIP settings notebook, you must fill in the entries for
-
- Your Host Name:
- Your Domain Name:
- News Server:
- Mail Gateway:
- POP Mail Server:
- Reply Domain:
- Reply (Mail) ID:
- POP Login ID:
- POP Password:
-
- Ask your Internet service provider for the correct values for these
- settings.
-
- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
-
- You can set these environment variables to change the default behaviour
- of the program.
-
- HOME Specifies the user's home directory. If not set, this defaults
- to the current directory. The program looks for the newsrc
- file in the home directory.
-
- NNTPSERVER
- Specify the NNTP news server, overriding the news server given
- in the PPP/SLIP settings notebook.
-
- MAILER Specify the command to execute to send mail. If this is not
- set, then Souper sends the mail directly to the mail server
- specified in the PPP/SLIP settings notebook.
-
- POSTER Specify the command to execute to post news. If this is not
- set, then Souper posts the news directly to the news server
- specified in the PPP/SLIP settings notebook.
-
-
-
-
- 1
-
-
-
- Souper User Manual - version 1.5
-
-
- CREATE NEWSRC FILE
-
- Use a text editor to create a file named newsrc in your home directory.
- List the newsgroups you want to transfer, one per line, and end each line
- with a colon. For example:
-
- comp.answers:
- news.answers:
- rec.humor.funny:
-
- The program records the article numbers it has fetched by updating this
- file.
-
- If you use Yarn, be sure to give Souper a separate newsrc file from the
- one used by Yarn. The files must be separate and are used for different
- purposes. The Souper newsrc file records the articles you have
- downloaded from the news server. The Yarn newsrc file records the
- articles you have read with the Yarn news reader.
-
- CREATE KILL FILE
-
- A kill file specifies criteria used to kill news articles, that is,
- exclude them from the SOUP packet. You can kill articles that have a
- specific subject, are from a specific poster, or contain a particular
- string anywhere in the header.
-
- By default, the program looks for a file named kill in your home
- directory. An entry in the kill file has the format:
-
- <newsgroup> {
- <where> <pattern>
- ...
- }
-
- where
-
- <newsgroup>
- is the name of the newsgroup in which the search patterns
- apply. If the name is "all", the search patterns apply in all
- newsgroups.
-
- <where> specifies where to search in the article. "from" searches the
- From line. "subject" searches the Subject line. "header"
- searches all lines in the article header.
-
- <pattern> is the string to search for. All searches are case-
- insensitive.
-
- Here is an example kill file:
-
- all {
- From netkook
- }
- comp.os.os2.advocacy {
- Subject Microsoft
- Subject crash OS/2
-
-
- 2
-
-
-
- Souper User Manual - version 1.5
-
-
- }
-
- In all newsgroups, articles from netkook are killed. Also in the
- comp.os.os2.advocacy newsgroup, articles with a Subject containing the
- string "Microsoft" or "crash OS/2" are killed.
-
- OPERATION
-
- To fetch your mail and news, run the command
-
- souper
-
- You can specify a different POP3 mail server than the one specified in
- the PPP/SLIP settings notebook by instead running the command
-
- souper <mailhost> <userid> <password>
-
- where
-
- <mailhost>
- is the name of the host running the POP3 mail server
-
- <userid> is your POP3 user ID
-
- <password>
- is your POP3 password
-
- If you want to transfer only news, specify the -m option to disable the
- mail transfer.
-
- souper -m
-
- If you want to transfer only mail, specify the -n option to disable the
- news transfer.
-
- souper -n
-
-
- The program creates the AREAS and *.MSG files of the SOUP packet in the
- current directory. Here's a typical batch file designed to import news
- into Yarn:
-
- cd \temp
- souper
- import -u
-
- And to export messages from Yarn:
-
- cd \temp
- unzip -o \home\reply.zip
- del \home\reply.zip
- souper -s
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 3
-
-
-
- Souper User Manual - version 1.5
-
-
- OPTIONS
-
- The program accepts the following command line options.
-
- -a Check for new newsgroups. If any newgroups were created since
- the last time Souper was run, add the new newsgroups to your
- newsrc file.
-
- -c n Catch up news. Mark every article in every newsgroup as read
- except for the last n articles.
-
- -h dir Set home directory. This option overrides any HOME environment
- setting. If the HOME environment variable is not set, the
- default is the current directory.
-
- -i Do not read the configuration from the IBM Internet Connection
- for OS/2 settings notebook. If the use this option, you must
- specify the required mail and news host information through the
- command line and environment variables.
-
- -k n Set maximum news packet size in Kbytes. The default is 2048
- Kbytes. If you set this to 0, the packet size is unlimited.
-
- -K file Specify another kill file. The default is the kill file in the
- home directory.
-
- -l n Kill articles that contain more than n lines in the body.
-
- -m Do not get mail.
-
- -n Do not get news.
-
- -N file Specify another newsrc file. The default is the newsrc file in
- the home directory.
-
- -r Set read only mode. Do not empty your POP3 mailbox or update
- the newsrc file.
-
- -s Send replies. The program expects the SOUP reply files in the
- current directory.
-
- -u When fetching news, create SOUP summaries instead of
- transfering entire articles.
-
- -x Do not process news Xref headers.
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
- This program is derived from popclient by Carl Harris <ceharris@vt.edu>
- and uqwk by Steve Belczyk <seb3@gte.com>.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 4
-
-
-
- Souper User Manual - version 1.5
-
-
- STANDARD DISCLAIMER
-
- The author makes no representations about the accuracy or suitability of
- this material for any purpose. It is provided "as is", without any
- express or implied warranties. The author will assume no liability for
- damages either from the direct use of this product or as a consequence of
- the use of this product.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 5
-
-