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Read-Me for RXPOP 1.23
======================
Contents:
- Overview
- Usage
- Tips
- History
- Requirements
- License
- Author
- Credits
- Getting new Versions and further information
Overview:
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RXPOP means REXX-Utils for POP-Mailing and enables to check a POP
account and automatically download messages.
Usage:
------
* ChkPOP.cmd <POP-Server> <User-ID> <Passwort>
ChkPOP means "Check POP" and checks if there are messages in your POP
mailbox. If there are some ones, the size of each message is told to
you.
* GetPOP.cmd <POP-Server> <User-ID> <Passwort> <File-Mask>
GetPOP means "Get POP mail" and downloads your mails and deletes them
on the POP-Server.
If File-Mask is a real mask (should contain up to 4 '?' so that
SysTempFileName can calculate enough filenames), each message is stored
in a single file that meets the given filemask.
If File-Mask names a certain file (existing or not), the mails are
appended to this file.
* PollPOP.cmd
PollPOP means "Poll the POP-server" and is just an example how to force
your system to download POP-mails automatically. It basically calls
GetPOP.cmd in certain intervals. But:
!!! This file has to be maintained by each user to work for him/she !!!
This can easily be done with any text editor. You just put your data in
the line where GetPOP.cmd is called.
Tips:
-----
Sending emails from command line is possible directly with the sendmail
command. Type "tcphelp sendmail" on an OS/2 command line to get more
information.
History:
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Ver. Short Description
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1.0 First Release
1.1 Better error handling in case of wrong username or password
1.2 Fixes for real RFC compatibility
Appends to one file if a filename is given instead of a filemask
1.21 Update and new name for this Readme-File
Start of mailing-list rxpop-info
1.22 Fixed a problem with answers to LIST command for empty POP boxes
certain POP servers prints +ERR instead of +OK and an empty list
1.23 Fixed the same error in CHKPOP (not only in GETPP ;-))
Requirements:
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Of course, REXX and TCP/IP has to be installed. Also, a connection to your
POP server must be possible.
Further, the RXSock-Package is needed that is EWS-Ware (Employee Written
Software, IBM) done by Patrick Mueller. I think it is part of the Warp IAK
and of Warp Connect's TCP/IP 3.0.
License:
--------
From my point of view, this package is absolut Freeware.
If you like it, feel free to mail me or to send money :-))
Freeware means that you may do anything you want, but:
You must NOT sell RXPOP as a commercial product.
Of course you are invited to publish the RXPOP on CD-ROMs, FTP-Servers,
BBSes and so and, as far as you do not make changes to the package or
remove this ReadMe- and License-file from it.
Further, my scripts are based on one from Patrick Mueller, so his copyrights
and the usual EWS terms has also to be fulfilled.
About the author:
-----------------
Name: Christoph Lechleitner
EMail: lech@ibcl.at or lech@lech.priv.at
Snail-Mail: Andechsstr. 20, A-6020 Innbruck, Austria, Europe
Phone: +43 (676) 3013818 (Handy) or +43 (512) 391176
WWW: http://www.lech.priv.at/~lech/, http://www.ibcl.at/ibcl
Credits
-------
Thanks to Patrick J. Mueller for some example source code for TCP/IP
with REXX
Thanks to Fantin Massimo <armobil@struinfo.it> for detecting a little
error and help to fix it.
Getting new Versions and further information
--------------------------------------------
There are several sources for new versions and further information:
The RXPOP Homepage can be found at http://www.ibcl.at/software/rxpop/
The binaries and ReadMe's can also be accessed via FTP at
ftp://ftp.ibcl.at/Software/rxpop.
I will also upload new versions at least to the LEO OS/2 archive that
can be found at http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/ and has some mirrors.
Further, there is a mailing-list rxpop-info@listserv.ibcl.at. Just mail to
this address and put "subscribe" or "subscribe <yourMailAddress>" in the
subject or in the first line of the body. I promise you will not get any
foreign advertisement from me.
Last but not least, you might find new versions on OS/2-related CD-ROMs.