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Explorer Development Presents
M A I L D A E M O N
====================
Version 1.3
Written by Roelof Jansen
1. Introduction
------------
"Mail Daemon" (MD) is an online mail server aimed for use by your
points and/or nodes.
You can show waiting mail, up and download mail and edit/pause
mail and file areas via netmail messages to XAreaFix.
MD is the successor of "CheckOutboundMail" aka "XOMC" which I
released earlier for Xenolink.
MD is fully written in C and is therefore much faster than its'
predecessor XOMC which was written in ARexx.
MD closely communicates with XAreaFix (© Bart Schraa, XEcho
Development) and makes use of its' configuration files. To use
the AreaFix part in MD, you MUST install and configure XAreaFix
first!
Why this door was written
-------------------------
Many new points at your system have problems using XAreaFix; they
find it difficult to communicate with a utility which doesn't
answer them in their language. They then bother you with
questions you have answered a thousand times ;-).
There's where MD comes in!
It enables your points to easily configure their mail areas and
see the effect of the changes immediately.
So if a new point asks you something about XAreaFix, just redirect
them to MD :).
2. Requirements
------------
MD requires the following:
- Kickstart 2.x or better.
- Xenolink BBS 1.90 and up.
3. Features
--------
- Display waiting mail.
- Upload & download mail.
- Delete unwanted mail packet(s).
- Add, remove, pause or resume mail & file areas for an address.
- Fully GUI & menu driven.
- Surveyor mode for Sysop.
- Utility to convert Points- & Nodes.config from XOMC to MD format.
- Number of points, nodes and tagnames are memory limited only.
- Use of memory pools.
4. Installation
------------
- Install the XAreaFix utility (if you haven't done already).
- Unpack the archive in RAM:
- Copy contents of dir "Configuration" to XCONFIG:
- Edit the file "MailDaemon.config" to fit your system.
- If you have NOT installed XOMC before:
- Edit the file "Points.config" to fit your system.
- Edit the file "Nodes.config" to fit your system.
else
- Convert the points & nodes config files using "ConvertOMC".
- Copy contents of dir "Doors" to DOORS:
- Create a menu entry in one of your menus;
Example:
CMD = "C"
{
XenolinkDoor "^4096^2^DOORS:MailDaemon/MailDaemon"
}
- Compile your menu(s)
That's it!
5. Operation
---------
MD is controlled via a user-friendly GUI. Just play with it for a
while and you will get the hang of it :-).
6. Disclaimer
----------
MD is freely distributable as long as nothing is changed in the
archive.
MD is software "as is" which means that I take no responsibility
for any damage caused to your system, whether it be MD's fault or
not.
There's no warranty on MD. I can stop development of this utility
at any one time.
If you really like MD, please register "OnlineToday" (© 1993-1995,
Explorer Development), the Xenolink Last Caller utility which only
costs you DFL.25,= (or USD 20,=).
See "Product-Info.txt" for more info about OnlineToday and how to
register it.
7. History
-------
v1.1 - First release
--------------------
v1.2 (8.4.95)
-------------
* Fixed problems with dupes in FLO files.
* Fixed problems with VACANT points.
* Fixed missing path when saving Points- & Nodes.config file(s).
* Fixed bug in user menu which occured after '... has no mail waiting'.
v1.3 (16.4.95)
--------------
* Sped up netmail scanning slightly.
* Added check for duplicate areas in XAreaFix.config.
* Changed tagname length to 40 chars. Only 23 chars are displayed
however; same goes for the users.
* Added logfile called "MailDaemon.LOG" which is created in your
LogDir (taken from Dir.config).
NOTE: Only *warnings* are written to the log. *Errors* are
still displayed on-screen! So keep checking this log to
eliminate any further problems.
8. Questions & Bugs
----------------
If you have any questions regarding MD please mail me:
I can of course also be reached in the Xenolink echoes.
Grtz, __
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