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- ( BETA RELEASE )
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- (c) 1994-95 Rafreider Andrea
- All rights reserved
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- General overview
- ================
-
- Suppose you have AmiTCP,InetUtils1.3 & MultiUser on your amiga.
- As you know, incoming mail from SMTPd (the mail daemon) will be put in
- UUMAIL:username, so everybody can read or delete your private mail.
- In UNIX systems incoming mail is usually stored in your $HOME/MAIL/mailbox
- and is readable only by you.
- That's why MailDeliver comes !
-
- With MailDeliver incoming mail to 'user'@your.amiga.internet.address will be
- appended in $HOME/MAIL/'user', where $HOME is the home of 'user' specified
- in the multiuser passwd file.
-
- If MailDeliver finds a file named ".forward" in your $HOME , incoming
- mail will be delivered to the new address specified in the first line
- of this file by calling MySMTPPost.
-
- If 'user' doesn't exist on your amiga-system, MailDeliver will send the message
- back to the sender complaining that 'user' is unknown.
-
- The file $HOME/MAIL/'user' will have 'user' as owner and will be have the
- following protection bits ----rwed group ---- other ---- so that nobody except
- 'user' will be able to read it.
-
- Nice isn't it ?
-
- MailDeliver also adds a line like "From Maildeliver on date xxx hour xxx"
- at the beginning of each mail file; this is done for compatiblity with
- AmigaElm.
-
-
- Usage
- =====
-
- MailDeliver 'user'@your.amiga.internet.address <MAILFILE
-
- or
-
- MailDeliver 'user'@ <MAILFILE
-
- Example:
-
- You may want to send a local message to user "pippo", to do this you
- can type the command:
-
- MailDeliver pippo@ <MAILFILE
- or
- MailDeliver pippo@your.amiga.internet.address <MAILFILE
- where MAILFILE is the file containing the message.
-
- With such command the contents of MAILFILE will be appended to
- HOME/MAIL/pippo , where HOME is the home of user "pippo".
- If the directory MAIL doesn't exist, maildeliver will create it!
-
- How To Install for use with InetUtils
- =====================================
-
- To install you simply have to copy MailDeliver and MySMTPPost in AmiTCP:bin/
- (inet:bin) and add the following line to the file S:StartSMTPd (read the
- InetUtils documentation too !)
-
- SetEnv SMTPRMAIL MailDeliver
-
- Then do the following:
-
- setowner AmiTCP:bin/MailDeliver root
- mprotect AmiTCP:bin/MailDeliver urwed GROUP re OTHER re
-
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- The following environment variables must be set up for the programs to work
- correctly: NODENAME,DOMAINNAME,HOSTNAME (if you have AmiTCP and InetUtils
- already installed you should have defined them).
-
- Is MailDeliver package FREEWARE ?
- =================================
-
- Yes it is, but if you are using it on your system i'd like to receive an
- e-mail from you , just to know how many amigas are connected to internet
- (in this sense you could say that this package is E-MAILWARE)
-
- Release version
- ===============
-
- This is a BETA release !! (And will probably stay BETA forever since
- I don't have time to work on it)
-
- Author
- ======
-
- Andrea Rafreider
- e-mail: andsk@amiga.dei.unipd.it
-
- Bugs
- ====
-
- No known bugs ! It has never crashed my machine yet :-)
- Anyway, if you find bugs you can e-mail me ! I will try to fix them
- when I'll have some time free.
-
- Warnings
- ========
-
- Use at your own risk !
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