login: <username>
Are you a listed user of the box (Y/N): Y
password: <password>
Kom can do this automatically for you and thats what Autologin
is for.
The Configuration
There are up to three section in the
configuration that deal with autologin:
The specific way, a BBS sysop wants you to login to her/his box greatly
dependes on her/his personal taste and that of the authors of the BBS
software running on the box. Kom offers the following protocols:
Before looking up the the name in the user table, the BBS software
gives you a chance to identify yourself as a new user. Since you
are allready registered when using autologin with this board, Kom
will answer "Y" to the questing.
Since "Y" may well be a "S" when calling a box in italy, you may
have eventually to customize the affirmation string also.
If none of the above matches your needs, you can try your own
login string.
A typical choice when you first login to a unknown box, or when
everything else fails.
If you have specified Use custom autologin, you specify
a custom login string here.
Beside the first two, all remainding information are only transmitted when
using IEMSI. It's save to leave them open in any case.
Custom login strings
Beside ordinary characters you can use the following special strings:
!E
- send escapes
!N
- send user name
!P
- send password
!W
- wait 1/2 sec.
!I
- never do IEMSI (this is not implemented yet.
IEMSI is started
by an EMSI_IRQ sent by the bbs. Such a bbs will happily accect Kom's
reply. BBSs that don't know nuts about IEMSI most probably won't
sent an EMSI_IRQ. So allowing IEMSI is the right choice in all cases.
!xx
- two hex digits for control codes - not implemented yet.
Name,Password
-protocol for example corresponds to the
string !W!N!W!P
.
IEMSI - Interactive Electronic Mail Standard Identification
Some BBSs offer IEMSI negotion during login. You can notice this ability
by seeing the string "**EMSI_IRQ" immediatly send by the BBS. If you have
not disabled IEMSI, Kom will automatically take over and send your user
name and password together with some informations of it's own abilities
to the BBS. For a second, Kom will popup a small form containing the
information, the BBS send back as reply. You can revoke the form later
by choosing File/Last IEMSI...
from the menu.
References
IEMSI is defined by fsc-0056.001.
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