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Date: 05-15-1993
Subject: RA Handle and anonymous mail interpretation by Silver Xpress 4.00
The file SXRAFILE.EXE is a small patch program to fix up a possible
mis-interpretion of RA's HANDLE logic in Silver Xpress.
RA has 3 types of mail areas:
- REAL NAME ONLY
- PICK AN ALIAS (ANONYMOUS MAIL)
- FORCE HANDLE
Silver Xpress will respect the behavior of these RA areas 100%
However, Xpress Mail Door v4.00 was maybe mis-interpreting a RA system
using HANDLES within a ANONYMOUS MAIL.
First, if you have a HANDLE system, you must go into the SETUP, BBS INFO
section in XPADM and set the flag "ALIAS SYSTEM" to TRUE (or YES). The
quick install was not doing this. This will allow your setup of Xpress and
the Silver Xpress mail reader to respect the RA handle system.
Second, as far as I know, RA does not have a mail type where you can have a
FORCE HANDLE by default and then PICK ALIAS together. In other words,
put the user's handle as a default but allow him to change it.
Xpress was interpretation this type of behavior for an RA area that was set
to FORCE HANDLE ONLY. This is because RA is setting BOTH bits of
information in the RA MESSAGES.RA file when you set it has a FORCE HANDLE
area.
When posting mail in RA, RA would force the handle when creating a message
and not allow the user to change it. So RA was ignoring the ANONYMOUS
mail bit it had set in MESSAGES.RA.
But under the Xpress reader, it was allowing the user to change it because
RA was telling Xpress it a ANONYMOUS area as well.
The SXRAFIX program will remove the ANONYMOUS MAIL bit from the Xpress area
system file XPAREAS.DAT so that the Xpress Reader will properly understands
it is a HANDLE ONLY area.
Simply put this program in the Xpress directory and run it everytime you
do a XPADM update (XPADM -U).