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M I N I - H O S T
for Microsoft Windows
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Data Management and Mail Processing
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Annotation to the demo-version
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, SuperPhysica Center, St.Petersburg, Russia.
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This document is a brief description of Mini-Host project and its
demonstration version. It is intended to help you in installation
and evaluating the demo version as well as to better imagine the
project's concepts, features and perspectives.
The document is written under a supposition that the reader is
familiar both with basics of Microsoft Windows graphical environment
and basics of electronic mail.
We strongly recommend you to read this document before you start
the installation procedure. It's quite small but all the
significant information is concentrated here.
If you are familiar with the previous demo version of Mini-Host, it
would be interesting for you to look into WHATSNEW.TXT file
containing a description of main differences between two consequent
demo versions.
CONTENTS
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GENERAL
INSTALLATION
Software Requirements
Hardware Requirements
Installation Procedure
DEMO EVALUATION
Populating Database of Accounts
Using WinUUCP as an External Mail Transport Agent
Mail Procesing
CAUTIONS
TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS
CONTACT ADDRESSES
GENERAL
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Mini-Host is an integrated software package for E-mail and
data processing. It works under Microsoft Windows graphical
environment.
Mini-Host package should give you an ability to have a
convenient networking environment under Microsoft Windows.
It should allow you either to organize a quite powerful email
host on your PC, or to get your PC integrated into external
network.
The demo version is of limited part of the entire project.
It includes two main parts of Mini-Host package only: the mail
user agent (MUA) - Data Manager, and the UUCP mail transport
agent (MTA) - WinUUCP.
Demo contains several Windows applications that are not
self-demonstrating ones, so you may finger their "real behavior".
Each part of the demo (MUA and MTA) can be installed separately
(see the INSTALLATION section of this document).
INSTALLATION
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Software Requirements
To run demonstration version of Mini-Host, you should have
Microsoft Windows 3.1 installed on your computer. To get
the best look of some interface elements you should also
have two standard Windows fonts installed - Helv and
Courier (the Arial font might be used well as a usual
substitution for Helv font).
The behavior of demo applications under MS Windows 3.0 may
cause some problems.
Hardware Requirements
You should have at least about 1.8 Mb of free space on your
hard disk to keep demo system files and to create a minimal
databases during evaluation. We recommend to use a PC with
4 Mb of RAM or more, although the applications can run with
less memory. As for video, it would be better to look at the
demo with SVGA (800x600) or higher resolution.
Installation Procedure
If you have got the demo installation files in the archived
form you should unpack the archive either into floppy
diskette or into separate temporary directory on your hard
drive (e.g. C:\TMP). Then you should launch Microsoft Windows
(if you are running MS DOS) and start the INSTALL.EXE
application.
An installation procedure is changed significantly since
previous demo version. Earlier it allowed you just to specify
several directories that should be used by Mini-Host. Now it
allows you also to initialize Mini-Host's databases and
configuration so that you would get a minimal ready-to-run
system immediately after installation is completed.
An installation procedure now has the following three main
steps: registration, files installation, and setup. Below are
a brief guidelines for how to go theough these steps.
Registration.
The first dialog you see is a Registration dialog where you
have to enter your real name and the name of your
organization (company or department). Further these names
will be used as a respective attributes of postmaster.
NOTE: Demo verson does not require for you to specify the
valid serial number of Mini-Host copy.
Files and directories.
After successfull registration, you will be prompted to
specify main installation options:
INSTALL - you may install either entire demo, or one
of two parts (mail user agent or mail
transport agent) of product.
DIRECTORIES
Windows - the MS Windows directory on your machine
(it is determined automatically) where
initialization files are to be placed.
Source - a directory of the source binaries for
installation (it is determined automatically).
Executables - a directory where all the demo executable
files should be placed.
Database - a directory where all the databases should be
created.
Mail - a directory where mail system files (spooler,
routes and aliases tables) should be placed.
OPTIONS
Install BWCC - demo applications use the Borland's Windows
custom control DLL (BWCC.DLL); if you have
this library already installed on your
machine installator will detect it
automatically and suggest you to install the
library supplied to demo only if it's
version is newer than one of your library.
Create Group - if you use the Program Manager as a shell in
your Windows graphical environment, you may
check on this option and the setup program
will create a special application group for
Mini-Host demo applications.
After you've specified all the preferred options, you may
press the OK button and the installator will copy all the
required files into appropriate directories.
Setup (initialization of the database and configuration).
After all the Mini-Host files are installed on your HD, you
will be prompted to perform minimal initialization of the
system:
- to setup your mail host;
- to setup an account fo