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INDEX ENTRY FOR THE RUST MAIL SYSTEM
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Name: The RUST Mail System - Yet another email-based request tracker
Version: 1.0b6pl2
Author(s): Craig Ruefenacht <ruefenac@cs.utah.edu>
University of Utah, Department of Computer Science
Shawn T. Amundson <amundson@cs.umn.edu>
Current maintainers <rust-develop@cs.utah.edu>
On the CD-ROM in: mail/rust.tar
Ftp source: ftp.cs.utah.edu:/pub/rust/
Web page: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~ruefenac/rust/
Size on the CD: 1.4 MB (uncompressed)
Description:
The RUST Mail System, which stands for the "Request, Users, and
the Sys-admin To-do" Mail System, is a ticket system designed to
handle the job of keeping track of electronic mail that is sent
to mailing lists. The system includes the capability to manage
multiple mailing lists, and the ability to serve information to
users upon request.
The RUST Mail System was written from scratch, but does
incorporate some features from other problem report ticket
systems which are available on the Internet.
The RUST Mail System is designed to act as the agent that
controls and keeps track of all mail going between users and
administrators. The RUST Mail System keeps track of all the
details of mail that is sent from users to a mailing list,
including any further mail regarding the original mail sent.
The core of the RUST Mail System is a mail piping program, which
takes electronic mail messages in as standard input, parses the
message according to RFC822 standards, either assigns the message
a unique "ticket" number for tracking purposes or adds the
message to an already existing "ticket", writes the message to a
logfile someplace, and then notifies the people on the mailing
list that new mail has arrived.
The mail piping program works both ways, parsing mail from both
the user and the administrator. For instance, if user John Doe
sent an electronic mail message to "help@foo.bar.com", which is
under RUST control, the message would be piped through the RUST
mail piping program and be processed. When the administrator
sends out a reply to John Doe's electronic mail, they send the
reply to "help@foo.bar.com". The RUST System would take the
reply, parse it, and figure out where the reply needs to be sent to.
-- Adapted from the 1.0b6pl2 docs/RELEASE.NOTES file
Advertised architectures:
Not specifically enumerated, but at least the following:
SunOS 4.1.x,
Solaris 2.x
HP-UX 9.x, 10.x
HP700 machines running BSD
IRIX 5.x, 6.x
Prerequisites:
C Compiler
You also need an up-to-date Perl and some Perl modules.
Perl -> version 5.002 or higher
MailTools -> version 1.09
libnet -> version 1.0502
IO -> version 1.15
Tk (perl) -> version 400.200
They are available at CPAN Perl archive sites, and at
ftp.cs.utah.edu:/pub/rust/perl-lib. They may also require support
from other perl modules. The above modules are then ones I use
directly.