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Silver Xpress Mail System Addendum File
(c) copyright 1988-1994 by Santronics Software
This document contains last minutes changes and extra information possibly
excluded in the official V5.00 documentation.
Additional Information
A.1 Installing Xpress For WildCat!
A.2 Installing Xpress For PCBOARD
A.3 Alias System For PCBOARD, RBBS and WildCat!
A.4 PCBOARD and WILDCAT Xpress Conference Selection Logic
A.5 Return Receipt User Acknowledgment
A.6 New Command Line Switches for XPADM
Section C: Corrections to Documentation
C.1 Changes to XPAREAS.CTL File (PCBOARD, RBBS, WILDCAT ONLY)
C.2 Additional Install Information for PCBOARD
A.1 Installing Xpress For WildCat!
The install process will do everything it can to set up Silver Xpress
on your system. All that remains is for you to set up the XPRESS.BAT
and the method to call it from within Wildcat!
FidoNet Support
Silver Xpress for WildCat is compatible with Wildnode, the official
WildCat Fido Nodelist System. During installation, if the WildNode
files are detected, Xpress will read in Fido information to properly
set up your primary netmail address. Silver Xpress will use the
WildNode Nodelist to get netmail cost information for netmail tossed
by Silver Xpress. Silver Xpress will also properly set origination
and destination net information. This allows WildCat to properly
display netmail information. All standard CTRL-A lines are supported
such as ^aINTL, ^aMSGID and ^aREPLY lines. The Silver Xpress Reader
is 100% fido compatible and is an ideal system to create netmail
messages.
If you wish to support a PURE *.MSG Fido NetMail directory, use the
XPADM program and INSert an area while the mail conference list is
displayed. Move down to the new mail area and press return to edit
the new area. Please note, the access to this area is based on the
user's WildCat! menu security (the security for his WildCat! Profile).
A.2 Installing Xpress For PCBOARD
At various points in the documentation, we mentioned you should copy
the XPRESS file over to the PCBOARD directory. This is no longer
necessary. The install program will assist in automatically setting
up Silver Xpress by adding the proper commands to the DOORS.LST and
optionally add some new PPE commands for Silver Xpress.
Silver Xpress is 100% PCBOARD 15.x Compliant. This means all PCBOARD
15.x file structures are understood by Xpress, including the new mail
formats. Xpress will also work with the old or new USERS.SYS, however
to implement ALIAS support in Silver Xpress, you must use the new
USERS.SYS in DOORS.LST. PCBOARD's USERS.SYS 15.x format will include
alias information if you enable the ALIAS PSA on your system.
QFRONT SUPPORT
The QFRONT System is a new and exciting front end mailer system
specifically designed for the PCBOARD BBS package. For the first time
ever, PCBOARD systems are joining the FidoNet Computer Network at a
growing rate. Packages such as Qfront and Silver Xpress are assisting
in this movement to FIDO connectivity.
If you are using QFRONT, XPADM will allow you to read QFRONT
information to set up your FIDO information in Silver Xpress during
the installation process.
Because of the way the QFRONT QSCAN.EXE program works, you will need
to call QSCAN with the /FORCE switch. This is required if you want
mail uploaded by Silver Xpress to be properly packed for outbound.
Silver Xpress will add an ORIGIN line to the uploaded mail and QSCAN
will assume mail with ORIGIN lines are imported messages (not created
locally). Offline Mail Programs for FIDO systems traditionally add
ORIGIN lines.
Xpress will support the new QFRONT file semaphore system in V1.06b.
You can set up Silver Xpress to tell QFRONT to do a MAIL RESCAN:
1) Create a batch file "CHKMAIL.BAT":
@echo off
cd \qfront
if exist c:\xpress\$echo.sem echo >rescan.sem
if exist c:\xpress\$echonet.sem echo >rescan.sem
if exist c:\xpress\$net.sem echo >rescan.sem
if exist c:\xpress\$*.sem del c:\xpress\$*.sem
:end
2) Insert the line in the XPRESS batch file after the XPMAIL.EXE call:
CALL CHKMAIL.BAT
3) Go into QFCONFIG and do a FILE SEMAPHORE CHECK. Define the file
RESCAN.NOW. Define an ERRORLEVEL to call the QSCAN /BOTH /FORCE
command.
A.3 Alias System For PCBOARD, RBBS and WildCat!
Xpress will now check to see if aliases are allowed for the system.
It will force aliases or real names depending on the BBS setup. For
PCBOARD, it will also depend on whether the user has the alias status
toggled. For any of this to work, you must make sure the Xpress ALIAS
SYSTEM option is enabled under BBS System Information in XPADM.
NOTE: As of PCBOARD 15.0, we found that the ALIAS logic is not quite
correct or it doesn't behave in a fashion "expected". If a user has an
alias option enabled for a conference which allows it, it is very
possible PCBOARD will not always find "all" the new messages during a
PCBOARD login mail scan, if messages are available to both the real
name and the alias name, or within a carbon copy. Silver Xpress will
properly pick up all the user's mail and show the correct "Direct
Mail" count.
A.4 PCBOARD and WILDCAT Xpress Conference Selection Logic
In prior versions of Xpress, it was possible to have selected areas in
Xpress not recorded in PCBOARD/WILDCAT. This allowed users to have
selected areas for off-line mail that could be different from that of
the BBS selected areas used for its own purposes.
This behavior is now optional. If you want Xpress to match the
selected areas as defined in the BBS, use the /MBC+ switch.
A.5 Return Receipt User Acknowledgment
New switch /ARR "show/tell user receipts were generated". Default On.
Currently, this is only good for PCBOARD Xpress. All receipts created
are private messages and the only time the user will know via Xpress
that a receipt was generated is after the mail bundling process. If
you wish to "hide" this, use /ARR-.
NOTE: PCBOARD will also tell the user a receipt message was created.
So it is not so secret from within PCBOARD. We do not believe this
to be egonomically or functionally correct. An author should be given
the option to hide the receipt of the message.
A.6 New Command Line Switches for XPADM
-R force a reread of areas, files information from BBS
-RC force a reread of areas information only from BBS
-RF force a reread of files information only from BBS
These switches are equivalent to deleting the XPAREAS.* files or the
XPFILES.* files and then doing an XPADM. The switches simply delete
the files for you.
examples:
XPADM -R reread areas and files and begin interactive session
XPADM -R -U reread areas and files and automatically compile
XPADM -RC -U reread areas only and automatically compile
NOTE: This is only for PCBOARD, RBBS and WILDCAT. For all others,
the -U will automatically reread the areas and files. No need for
the -R switches.
Section C: Corrections to Documentation
C.1 Changes to XPAREAS.CTL File (PCBOARD, RBBS, WILDCAT ONLY)
The following changes where made to the XPAREAS.CTL control file.
VOLUMEID removed
DOMAIN removed
MATRIX removed, see address
ADDRESS FidoNet Address, domain can be part of address
NETWORK Network conference belongs too
POSTCCMAIL Security required to post carbon copies
POSTRECREQ Security required to post a return request
LONGTONAME Long names allowed in ToWhom Field
FATPATH Location of File Attach directory
ALLOWALIAS Force Alias if user wants alias for conference
C.2 Additional Install Information for PCBOARD
To update the Xpress forums when you make changes to your BBS mail
area setup, perform an XPADM -U. For PCBOARD, you can manually edit
the XPAREAS.CTL file or delete XPAREAS.CTL and then do an XPADM -U.
When installing Xpress for PCBOARD, the quick setup program will give
the sysop the option to automatically update the PCBOARD Doors.Lst
file.
When installing Xpress for PCBOARD, the quick setup program will give
the sysop the option to automatically add new PCBOARD 15.0 PPE menu
commands, called XPMENU and XPHELP.