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- Short: Amiga Mailing List Server Beta 2
- Author: fosters@dvalley.demon.co.uk (Tom Bampton)
- Uploader: fosters@dvalley.demon.co.uk (Tom Bampton)
- Version: 1.0ß2
- Type: comm/net
- Replaces: ListServBeta.Lha
-
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- IF YOU ARE USING A PREVIOUS VERSION OF LISTSERV, IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
- THAT YOU READ ALL OF THE FILE PREVIOUS_USERS_README_FIRST. IF YOU DONT, I CAN
- GUARANTEE YOU WILL MESS UP YOUR ENTIRE MAILING LIST.
-
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- Many bugs are fixed in this release. Please see
- http://www.dvalley.demon.co.uk/listserv/ for upto date feature lists and
- information.
-
- This is a beta of a new Mailing List server for the Amiga.
- It is possible to run a proper mailing list with this version, and this would
- be the final version (except for a couple of bugs) if i hadn't of thought
- of loads more stuff to add.
-
- Please email all bug reports to fosters@dvalley.demon.co.uk
-
- Requirements
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- You will need an Amiga connected to some kind of network allowing mail such
- as the Internet. Some method of recieving mail is required, obviously, and
- the program used for that MUST be able to make standard RFC822 compliant spool
- files, otherwise you will need a program to convert the networks mail files
- to RFC822 compliant spool files. For the internet, GetMail on aminet will work
- for POP3 recieve, and SMTPd in INetUtils 1.4 (also on aminet) will work for
- incomming SMTP mails (Demon users in the UK will need this to recieve mail
- anyway).
-
- Some kind of post program is required to send mail to the network, this also
- must be RFC822 compliant and be able to handle To, From, Subject fields in
- the temporary mailfile (they all can be specified on the command line also),
- PutMail and SMTPpost (Aminet and INetUtils 1.4) will work fine for this.
-
- A 24 hour connection is _NOT_ required, as long as some method of storing mail
- on your mail server is available, such as a POP3 account or some kind of SMTP
- store program running on the mail host (such as mailstore for Demon users).
- Normally you wont need to worry about this, your mail host will take care of
- that. Please note, web based mail systems that offer free email accounts are
- usually unsuitable, as reading and writing is done on the web, and not via
- a POP3 account, GeoCities is the only exception I can think of right now.
-
- The ability to create email addresses is preferable, altho it is possible to
- run all the mailing lists off one email address, this is both hard to setup and
- annoying for the users.
-
- Tip: If you can't create email addresses on your mail host, and you dont
- already have an account with GeoCities, get an account there (its free) and
- put your list's homepage on there, and use the free email account (POP3) for
- your mailing list. If you already have a GeoCities account, and dont use your
- GeoCities email address as your main one, then think about changing your
- member name to something suitable for your list and run the list off that.
- NOTE: U will probably need a program to strip the crap that GeoCities adds to
- mail.
-
- Demon users will not have a problem with this, as it is very easy to create
- email addresses.
-
- Hardware wise, any Amiga running Workbench 2.04+ should be able to handle
- it. Memory useage depends on the amount of lists you have, the amount of users
- in the current list being processed, and the size of the spool file. The
- program itself hardly takes any memory up at all.
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 1233 592 51.9% 23-Dec-96 00:16:58 ListServ.info
- 34260 17091 50.1% 19-Feb-97 12:55:26 +ListServ
- 1673 637 61.9% 19-Feb-97 12:59:26 +ListServ.config
- 32311 10843 66.4% 19-Feb-97 13:04:14 +ListServ.guide
- 4223 1884 55.3% 19-Feb-97 12:52:18 +PREVIOUS_USERS_README_FIRST
- 1493 666 55.3% 07-Dec-96 17:07:14 +Send
- 501 241 51.8% 07-Dec-96 17:07:14 +Send.info
- 1395 630 54.8% 19-Feb-97 13:01:42 +Help.txt
- 0 0 0.0% 19-Feb-97 13:02:26 +
- 699 375 46.3% 18-Feb-97 08:31:36 +BadSubsc.txt
- 1503 731 51.3% 04-Dec-96 17:42:50 +Confirm.txt
- 369 208 43.6% 18-Feb-97 09:34:38 +NoSubsc.txt
- 209 138 33.9% 04-Dec-96 17:43:58 +Remove.txt
- 5866 2429 58.5% 05-Dec-96 16:27:50 +info
- 1503 731 51.3% 04-Dec-96 17:42:50 +welcome
- 851 430 49.4% 19-Feb-97 12:22:40 +UpdateUserDat
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 88089 37626 57.2% 20-Feb-97 11:20:36 16 files
-