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- Description of CrashMail's built-in AreaFix
- ===========================================
-
- What is AreaFix?
- ----------------
- AreaFix is a feature present at most FidoNet nodes, either built-in in
- the tosser or as a stand-alone program. AreaFix allows you to connect
- and disconnect to echomail areas, change your password and change some
- other things in your configuration without asking your feed/boss to do
- it for you.
-
- How do I use AreaFix?
- ---------------------
- You communicate with AreaFix using netmail messages. The message header
- of a message to AreaFix should look like this:
-
- From: Johan Billing
- To: AreaFix
- Subj: <password> [<switches>]
-
- <AreaFix commands>
- ...
- ---
-
- <Password> is your private AreaFix password that you need to make sure
- that nobody else alters your configuration. Your AreaFix password is
- assigned by your boss/feed, so you may have to ask him about a password.
-
- [<switches>] are extra commands that you can send to AreaFix. Currently
- there is only one switch:
-
- -l or -q Send list of all areas
-
- This switch is only here to be compatible with other AreaFix programs.
- It is recommended that you use the %-commands described later instead.
-
- "---" marks the end of an AreaFix message.
-
- NOTE: The name doesn't necessarily has to be AreaFix, your boss may have
- configured CrashMail to use other names instead.
-
- What commands can I put in the text?
- ------------------------------------
-
- Change connected areas:
-
- [+]areaname[,R=<max>] Connect to an area. The '+' is optional. If
- the R option is specified after the area,
- that number of old messages in the area will
- be rescanned and sent to you.
-
- -areaname Disconnect from an area
-
- =areaname[,R=<max>] Update an area. This is useful if you want to
- rescan an area you are already connected to.
-
- Special commands
-
- %HELP Send this text
-
- %LIST Send list of all areas
- %QUERY Send list of all linked areas
- %UNLINKED Send list of all unlinked areas
-
- %PAUSE Do not send any echomail until a %RESUME is sent
- %RESUME Send echomail again. These commands can be very
- handy if you are away for a few weeks and don't
- want to get any echomail.
-
- %PWD <pw> Changes your AreaFix password to the new password
- specified after the command.
-
- %COMPRESS <name> Changes the packer used to compress your mail to
- the packer specified after the command. Send
- "%COMPRESS ?" to get a list of packers.
-
- %RESCAN All areas that are added or updated after this
- line will be rescanned, that is all old messages
- in those areas will be sent to you. This can be
- very dangerous since you don't know how many
- messages you will get, so in most cases, it is
- better to use the R option when adding/updating
- areas instead.
-
- Examples:
- ---------
-
- R20_TRASHCAN Connect to R20_TRASHCAN
-
- %LIST Send list of areas
-
- R20_AMIGA,R=50 Connect to R20_AMIGA and get the last 50 messages
- in the area.
-
- %PWD xyzzy Change your AreaFix password to "xyzzy".
-
- %COMPRESS ZIP Change your compression method to ZIP.
-
- %PAUSE Turn off echomail for a while
-
- %RESUME Turn on echomail again
-
- =R20_AMIGA,R=100 Get the last 100 messages in R20_AMIGA (if you are
- already connected to the area)
-
- A few words on rescan
- ---------------------
- Messages that are rescanned won't look exactly like they originally did
- because of the way they are stored locally. Please think of that when
- reading them.
-
- For example, these things can be changed:
-
- o The character set of the message may be changed. In some cases, the
- original character set can be found in the "^a_CHRS" control line,
- but not always.
-
- o The address in the Origin line may have a "@fidonet" or another
- domain name added.
-
- o A program name may have been added after the tearline ("---").
-
- o All control lines ("kludges") are in the beginning of a message
- regardless of where they originally were. This only happens if
- your uplink uses a UMS messagebase.
-
- You can easily tell if a message has been rescanned, just look for the
- ^aRESCANNED control line.
-