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NEWMAIL: The RBBS-PC Sysop Utility to control outgoing Echomail
Version 1.13
Copyright 1990, 1991 by Michael Walsh
All rights reserved
This program is released into the Public Domain for use by RBBS-PC BBS
Sysops in controlling outgoing messages from their systems.
V1.13 is a maintenance release that optimizes the code for speed.
WHAT IT DOES:
NEWMAIL simply scans through your AREAS.BBS file and reads off the names
of echomail conference areas and their associated message bases. After
doing so, it scans through each message base and looks for messages that
have not been echoed to your hub yet, and that are not killed. It will
display each message that qualifies and ask you if you want to kill it.
This allows the Sysop to purge out any messages that are offensive or
troublesome without letting the sender know that the message has been
deleted. These messages will never be echoed to the net, and therefore
the problem is headed off at the pass, so to speak.
The program works by using the same trick that RBBSMAIL and MSGTOSS use
to determine if a message has been echoed; the TIME SENT field of the
message header is changed so that the second colon (:) in that field is
changed to a period (.) if the message has been echoed. It looks for
messages that still have the colon in that location, and if the message
is active (i.e., not killed) it displays it and asks if it should be
killed.
Also available is a batch mode, in which no sysop intervention is
required. Use the /B option after the areas pathname on the command
line.
SYNTAX:
NEWMAIL <areas.bbs> [/B]
WHERE:
<areas.bbs> is the full pathname to your AREAS.BBS file
/B is the optional BATCH run parameter
NEWMAIL looks for a file called NM-TWIT.LST in the default directory.
This file should contain a list of the names of users who are not allowed
write access to the echos. Any messages entered by these users will be
killed before they are echoed. NEWMAIL should be run just before you
run your mail scanning utility (i.e. RBBSMAIL/MSGTOSS.) Names are case-
insensitive, and should be entered one per line.
I hope that you find this utility useful, and any suggestions or changes
that you'd like to see are welcome. Send your suggestions to Michael
Walsh at 1:273/917@fidonet, or 8:952/14@rbbsnet.
---Michael S. Walsh
Walsh MicroSystems RBBS
(215) 725-9134 HST/V.42