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7.1 The Event Manager
The event manager has two modes. The first is the view mode,
which is self explanatory. The second mode is the edit/create
mode. It will now be described.
Tag (T) The event "ID". A letter from A-Z or @. The @
event has special meaning and is described later.
X is used for eXternal events, all other letters
are used for mail events. Which letter you use is
not important. They could correspond with the
time of day, N for Night, E for Evening, D for
Day, etc. The event tag is used to associate an
event with a schedule block in the route file
(see "Mail routing").
Days The days you want the event to be active on. The
@ event is active on all days.
Modifier (M) You can define a start time for the @ event. It
is not used to control the start of the @ event.
It can be added, subtracted, or ignored, when
calculating the actual start time of other
events.
If the modifier for an event is +, the start time
of the @ event is added to the start time of the
event.
If the modifier for an event is -, the start time
of the @ event is subtracted from the start time
of the event.
If the modifier for an event is *, the start time
of the @ event is ignored and not used to
calculate the actual start time of the event.
This is very useful when it is time to switch
between winter and summer time. Instead of having
to manually go into each event and define a new
start time, you could change the start time of
the @ event and the start time of all other
events will be changed.
Let us assume that you have an event (tag=E) that
starts at 08:00 in the morning with a modifier of
+. Your @ event has a start time of 01:00. Since
the modifier was + (add), the start time of @
(01:00) will be added to the start time of the E
event and the result will be that event E starts
at 09:00. If you change the modifier to -
(subtract), the start time of event E will be
07:00 (08:00 minus 01:00). If you set the
modifier to * (ignore), the start time of E is
not affected.
Start time Defines the start time of an event. See Modifier
(above) for an explanation on how this can be
affected.
Length Defines the length of the event. External events
(X) always have a length of 00:01 (one minute).
Errorlevel
For external (X) events, this defines the
errorlevel that the Mailer (FD) will terminate
with.
For mail events, this defines the errorlevel to
exit with if mail is received (and the Mailer is
triggered to exit). If the errorlevel field is
set to zero, the default MAIL RECEIVED errorlevel
will be used.
You may use any value in the range 31-255.
Min.cost Defines the minimum cost of messages that should
be qualified (see "Mail routing").
Max.cost Defines the maximum cost of messages that should
be qualified (see Mail Routing). A value of -1
forces FD to ignore the cost of messages.
Behavior Defines the behavior of the event. Mail events
and external (X) events have different behavior
options, this is described later.
Retry delay
Defines the delay (in seconds) the Mailer should
wait between placing outgoing calls. A value of
zero means that you want the Mailer to use the
default delay (described earlier).
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