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- How to use the AreaLink of IMAIL
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- To use the AreaLink for connecting and disconnecting echoes on my system,
- send a Netmail addressed to ARELINK, IMAIL, AREAFIX or AREAMGR,
- (Case is not significant) to my system.
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- In the Subject-Field you enter the password I've given you, and in the
- message body you enter the echoes which should be connected, disconnected
- or updated. You may place a '+' in front of the echoes to be connected,
- and a '-' in front of the echoes to be disconnected.
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- An example:
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- From: John Doe
- To: AREALINK
- Subject: my_password
- +I.MISC.JUNK <= connect the echo
- +I.MISC.JUNK,R-O <= connect the echo with the status read-only
- +I.MISC.JUNK,W-O <= connect the echo with the status write-only
- -I.MISC.SCIENCE <= disconnect the echo
- =I.MISC.JUNK <= update the echo
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- Additionally to the use of echotags you may use the following wildcards:
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- * means one or more of all valid characters
- ? means exactly one of all valid characters
- [a-d] means any character between a and d
- [!a-d] means any character not between a and d
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- There are several Meta-commands, which may be used in the message body.
- For them the case isn't significant, too:
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- %LIST List of all echoes which are available for you
- %QUERY List of all connected echoes
- %UNLINKED List of all available, but not already linked echoes
- %PAUSE Pause all echoes
- %RESUME Resume all echoes after a %PAUSE command
- %COMPRESS <method> Change you packmethod for the ARCmails
- (list all available packers with '?')
- %PWD <new_pwd> Change your AreaLink password into <new_pwd>
- %RESCAN Executes a rescan on the new connected and updated
- echoes. You can force a rescan of every single echo,
- if you append an 'R' after a new connected or updated
- echo as shown below
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- +I.MISC.JUNK,R
- =I.MISC.TEST,R
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- You can specify the number of messages to rescan
- as the following example shows (,R=nnn):
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- +I.MISC.JUNK,R=100
- =I.MISC.TEST,R=50
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- %RECEIPT <addr> Send Arealink receipt to <addr>.
- %HELP Send this Helptext
- %INFO General Information (used packer, etc.)
- %RULES <ON|OFF> Switch on|off the sending of rules
- +* All echoes will be connected
- -* All echoes will be disconnected
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- If you want to add a message to the request, you have to begin it after
- the tearline (---) or after the %NOTE Meta-Command, which may only be
- placed after your requests respectively after the remaining Meta-Commands.
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