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- This is an overview for a sysop to setup a point.
-
- There are too many Mailers, Mail Tossers and echo utilites
- to go into detail. Below is a brief layout of what a sysop
- will do to setup a point.
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- Step 1. Mailer
- Your mailer uses a nodelist to send/receive mail. Refer to
- the mailers documention on adding a private nodelist or
- adding an address to your existing nodelist. You may operate
- using Session Level Passwords, if so you MUST use the same
- password for areafixing (refer to AreaFix below). To decide wether
- you asign the user a point address or a fakenet address refer
- to the Point Address Note below.
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-
- * Point Address Note *
-
- The decision to use a point address (1:106/500.1) or
- a fakenet number (23:100/34, you make up this number)
- is based on if your mailer and/or tosser is point aware.
- This is known as 4D addressing. Most of the mailers and
- tossers today can handle point addressing. Please
- refer to your docs to see if this is the case, so you
- can decide on the address scheme to use. Since
- WIN-MAIL is a crash system (meaning it will call your
- system, you NEVER call the point) you will have to flag
- all mail for your points as HOLD.
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- Step 2. Mail Tosser
- Add the point address to your tossers config. This is necessary
- so that your tosser will know who to prepair mail for.
- To decide whether you assign the user a point address or
- a fakenet address refer to the Point Address Note above.
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- Step 3. Echo List Processor - Utility
- One such util is call AREAFIX. What this utility will do
- for you is automate the process of turning off/on echos
- that the point system will request. Basically the way this utility
- works is by reading a specialy formatted message that the point
- will send. The format is as follow and WIN-MAIL follows the format
- as well however, this process is automated for the point in WIN-MAIL.
- This is not a requirement however, this utility will do all the work
- of turning on/off echos for the point.
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- * AreaFix Message Format *
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- From: User Name
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- To: AREAFIX
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- Subject: The password you assign the user
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- Body of the Message: (Note each echo is on a line by itself)
-
- WINDOWS <---------- Turn on this echo
- MS_WORD <---------- Turn on this echo
- MS_EXCEL <---------- Turn on this echo
- -POLITICS <---------- Turn off this echo
- WHITEHOUSE <---------- Turn on this echo
- -LAN <---------- Turn off this echo
- MISSING_CHILD <---------- Turn on this echo
- --- <---------- Tearline, meaning end of message
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- There are several such utilities so refer to the documentation.
- * This is the format that WIN-MAIL will generate and send *
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- Step 4. Supply the user of WIN-MAIL with a list of echos so they can
- decide what they would like to receive.
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- The above is just an outline of what is needed to set up a point.
- As stated previously, there are too many products that a sysop
- can use to list all configurations for all the different environments
- that a sysop would be running. Please refer to the documention that
- came with the software that you are using.
-
- Trinity SoftWARE Development would like to Thank You for taking
- the time to set a user up so that they will be able to use
- WIN-MAIL with your system.
-