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- Installation instructions for GopherMail
-
- 1. Create a user with the ID "gopher" on your system. Here's what
- mine looks like:
-
- gopher:*:100:100:GopherMail Server:/home/gopher:/usr/calvin/bin/tcsh
-
- 2. Create a couple of aliases in /etc/aliases to make things easier:
-
- gophermail-admin:fredb (change this, of course)
- gophermail:gopher (this just lets people use either address)
-
- Don't forget to run "newaliases".
-
- 3. Make the home directory (in my case /home/gopher) and make sure it
- contains the following three files:
-
- -rw------- 1 gopher 27 Oct 13 01:31 .forward
- -rwxrwx--- 1 gopher 15519 Oct 25 15:21 gophermail*
- -rwx------ 1 gopher 346 Oct 25 15:28 gophermail.maint*
-
- 4. The .forward file should consist of the following line:
-
- "|/home/gopher/gophermail"
-
- 5. Create a crontab file for the new gopher account by executing the
- command "crontab -e gopher" (as root). The crontab file should
- contain the following line:
-
- 15 3 * * * /home/gopher/gophermail.maint > /dev/null
-
- This will execute the gophermail.maint program every day at 3:15am.
-
- 6. Customize the variables at the top of the gophermail program.
-
- 7. Set up the gophermail helpfile as a text file with a title such as
- "About GopherMail" on your gopher server. Replace "calvin.edu"
- with your address in the following lines of that file:
-
- You can get started by sending mail to gopher@calvin.edu with any or no
- Host=gopher.calvin.edu <- Required. This MUST be the last line of the link.
- 0About GopherMail#0/gophermail#gopher.calvin.edu#70
- gophermail-admin@calvin.edu
-