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IMPORTANT NOTES:
Thanks to a review in the Feb 25, 1992 issue of PC Magazine, it has
come to our attention that there is a commercial program already out
there going by the name of MAILMAN. While we were unaware of this
package when we first issued MAIL MANAGER, and we certainly were not
attempting to usurp their program name and goodwill, we have seen
other authors hauled into court over such things. To avoid any
potential conflicts with the commercial package, we have eliminated
any reference to the name MAILMAN as applied to this program, except
where needed for clarity in understanding how to update from earlier
releases. Keep reading to see how this change affects installation.
This version of Mail Manager is free, but an enhanced version, with
a $25.00 registration fee, is in the works. See ENHANCED.DOC for
details.
MAIL MANAGER v1.34:
If you are installing Mail Manager for the first time, read the
section in MAILMGR.DOC entitled "Installing Mail Manager from
scratch".
If you are upgrading from either v1.30 or v1.33, you should do the
following:
[ ] Replace your existing MAILMGR.EXE and MAILCFG.EXE programs
with the ones included in this package.
[ ] (Optional) - Run MAILCFG.EXE once against your existing
MAILMGR.CFG file, and save your setup (without making any
changes). All this does is update the version number in
your configuration file.
That's all that's needed.
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If you are upgrading from v1.20 through 1.24, you should do the following
IN THIS ORDER:
[ ] Copy the supplied UPDATE.EXE to your Mail Manager directory,
and run it once from DOS. This updates your existing
MAILMAN.CFG file to the new format. After doing this, you
can discard UPDATE.EXE.
[ ] Make sure you're in your Mail Manager directory, and rename
MAILMAN*.* to MAILMGR*.*. You can do this easily by typing
the following from the DOS command line:
REN MAILMAN*.* MAILMGR*.*
[ ] Replace files with the ones included in the imbedded MAILMGR.ZIP
as needed:
- MAILMGR.EXE (must)
- MAILCFG.EXE (must)
- *.HLP (optional - wording changes)
- *.MNU (optional - wording changes)
[ ] If you'd like to include ANSI color welcome and exit screens
for your users who are configured as such in RBBS-PC, create
a PRELOGC.RBS and/or EPILOGC.RBS, and place them in Mail
Manager's directory.
[ ] Run MAILCFG.EXE, and set these additional options:
- Whether or not to modify the date/time stamp on uploaded
replies.
- Location (City, State) of your BBS.
- Phone number of your BBS.
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If you are upgrading from a version older than v1.20, you should do the
following IN THIS ORDER:
[ ] Back up your entire Mail Manager subdirectory, in case you
need anything additional from it later.
[ ] Delete everything from it, EXCEPT the following files:
MAILMAN.USR (Mail Manager's internal user file)
MAILMAN.CFG (Mail Manager's binary configuration file)
MAILMAN.BUL (or whatever you named it, if it exists)
*.RBS (the prelog and epilog screens)
*.MNU (the main menu)
*.PRE (Mail Manager's prelog screen)
Almost everything else about Mail Manager has changed from
previous versions of the program.
[ ] Copy UPDATE.EXE to your Mail Manager subdirectory, and run it
once from DOS to update the format of your configuration file.
When finished, you can discard UPDATE.EXE.
[ ] Make sure you're in your Mail Manager directory, and rename
MAILMAN*.* to MAILMGR*.*. You can do this easily by typing
the following from the DOS command line:
REN MAILMAN*.* MAILMGR*.*
[ ] De-compress the embedded MAILMGR.ZIP to your Mail Manager
subdirectory.
[ ] Read the section in MAILMGR.DOC entitled "SYSOP-CONFIGURABLE
TEXT FILES", and update your files as needed. Most notably:
MAILMGR.ARL
MAILMGR.PRO
MAILMGR.BUL
[ ] Run MAILCFG.EXE, and insure that everything is set properly.
MOST NOTABLY the additional options for:
- type of network to use in local mode,
- type of flow control (handshaking),
- path/filename of the list of new bulletins,
- path/filename of your FMS directory (if you were using NEWFILES),
- path/filename of PROTO.DEF,
- path/filename of the list of archivers,
- environment variable to use (DSZLOG or equivalent), and
- whether or not to modify date/time stamp on uploaded replies.
- Location (City, State) of your BBS.
- Phone number of your BBS.
This should be sufficient to get you up and running with this release
of Mail Manager, but if you run into trouble, you'll want to carefully
study the section entitled "Installing Mail Manager from scratch" in
MAILMGR.DOC.
Chip Morrow & Doug Wilson