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The Shelter Family is a set of powerful and easily configurable
WPL-based Mailers. Each has a subset of the features of the powerful
Roof Mailer, which has served as the development testbed for all wpl
mailers. The Roof Mailer itself is not distributed separately as it
is an intregal part of the HUGE Roof System and requires the ROOFLOG
and FLOWMGR function hosts for proper operation.
Three independant mailers are available in the Shelter Family of
Mailers: Umbrella, Gazebo and Porticus. Each can be configured and
compiled with the included GenMailer program.
The Uncommon Features of Shelter Mailers
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All Shelter Mailers feature a Mailer Status Display, scrolling log
and progress windows as well as an XPR progress window. In addition,
individual windows can display the progress of each poll. All these
windows, except for the Display, may enabled or disabled during mailer
generation.
All Shelter Mailers feature SeaLink (inbound), DietIFNA, ZedZap,
ZedZip and DirectZap protocols with crash-resistant RESUME and support
for both 2d and 4d outgoing file requests. XPR protocols are used
thoughout.
Shelter mailers provide a high level of security, both when dealing
with other mailers and with human callers. Unlike other mailers, when
a Shelter Mailer is properly configured, if is very unlikely that
files can be stolen, or your HD formatted.
Multiple AFTERSESSION and WHENRECD commands allow automatic req,
mail and tic processing. Unlike any other mailer, Shelter Mailers
provide separate commands per file type to be executed either when a
file of a certain type is received/sent or after the session or BOTH.
The Cache also allows Site-specific AFTERSESSION commands to override
the GLOBAL ones. Example aftersession command scripts include
utilties to set the filenote of a received file from the description
comment in the sent REQ file, or from the short description in an
AmiNet .README file.
All Shelter Mailers are multi-FTN and feature both EMSI and AUTOAKA
WAZOO. AutoAKA causes the mailer's primary address to be set
depending upon the address of the site being called or who is calling.
The domain is automatically set if the remote site does not provide
it. When USEAKAS is set for FTN site, all files for all AKAs
configured for the site will be sent in the same session both under
WAZOO and EMSI.
All Shelter Mailers feature a Site Cache, which allows setting a
remote site's session password, sitename, sysopname, phone number,
alternate phone number. The remote site may be an FTN node, a UUCP
site, an Atomic Clock site or a BBS, FTP or Online Service ( in which
case the configured term program will be spawned upon connect). Other
parameters specific to the type of site may also be set. If your
tosser is not domain-aware and the site sends archives containing
bundles for multiple FTNs, the site may be configured so that these
bundles will be sorted by domain for tossing. One may also configure
a particular site so that all mail is sent to configured AKAs of a
site either on inbound, outbound or both. On can also set handshake
(FTS1,WAZOO,EMSI) to use when calling and what addresses to present
under EMSI when dialing a site. The Cache allows Site-specific
AFTERSESSION commands to override the GLOBAL ones.
In addition to the Site Cache, the Gazebo and Porticus Mailers also
support either nodelist.library or traplist.library for FTN sessions
and Passwd and L.sys for uucp sessions.
The Shelter Mailer Manager program allows Cache and Manual dialing
as well as an AUTO feature which allows auto-startup and poll of one's
BOSS or echo hub. With Manual dialing, one just specifies site and
phone number and/or line to use. Also included is a POLL feature
which will asyncronously poll all sites with pending mail. POLLs will
continue until a connection is made, with the number of seconds
between dial attempts and the duration of a poll window both being
configurable.
Remote addresses can be simply specified, with address expansion
being done based upon your AKA in the domain being called. For
example, if one wanted to call fidonet#1:167/104.0, and one's own
address is fidonet#1:167/151.0, one would simply do:
Shelter CALL 104
Individual windows for each poll in progress keeps one abreast of
the current status. A poll can be aborted via a Shelter command, or a
Ctl-C in the poll's window. Parameters such as duration of poll
attempt, redial and busy delays are settable on the fly.
Shelter mailers do not use the obsolete and non-secure FLO file
format, but rather the very secure Xferq.library outbound management.
However, all Shelter Mailers do provide functions to convert 4D .FLO
files to 5D XferQ queues and to add any type of file to a site queue.
In addition, a comprehensive set of Queue management tools are
available as XPack.LHA.
Shelter Mailers also provide for multiple inbound directories for
Tossers which are not domain aware, as well as a NONSECURE inbound for
sites not in Site Cache or nodelist. A separate inbound is provided
for HUMAN callers with Porticus.
Umbrella Point Mailer (MAGIC NAME: UMBRELLA)
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The Umbrella Point Mailer is a single line, multi-FTN mailer.
It can be setup to answer the phone, BBS spawning is not supported
however. If set to noanswer, the answer code is not generated. This
mailer does not require a nodelist, as it features both the Site Cache
and manual dialing. It does not support UUCP, CLOCK, FAX or BBS
dialing, nor spawning of file request handlers or BBSs. It can be set
to no do flo convert but to queue flo files only when connected,
thereby reducing memory usgae.
Gazebo - The Standard Node Mailer (MAGIC NAME: GAZEBO)
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In addition to the standard Shelter FTN features, Gazebo allows
single BBS spawning, UUCP inbound and outbound calls and setting the
system clock via calls to any Atomic Clock Site with XPRclock.library.
It also features XfreqSH, which allows the use of ANY File Request
Handler.
Porticus - Full Service Node (MAGIC NAME: PORTICUS)
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Porticus has all the features of the Umbrella and Gazebo Mailers,
as well as all the non-ROOF System dependant features of the ROOF
Mailer. Porticus uses the RFS File Request Handler (included) which
provides file requests, both standard and HRF format update requests,
response handling and accounts for both mailers and human callers.
In addition to the extensive mailer capabilities described above,
Porticus has a full-featured remote user interface for Human callers.
This interface provides:
System Bulletins
Multiple level Menus
Multiple BBS selections
Remote on-line help
Text Information displays
Doors
Auto-Download of Magic Names
Auto-Uploads with file description prompt
Chat with sysop
Messages to/from sysop
File Requests with CallBack Verification (with reward)
Forwarded file requests (to/from OTHER systems)
Remote CLI
Amiga Empire Game support
User Accounts
Boot a human caller
All these utilities are included in the PORTICUS distribution.
XPACK Outbound Management (MAGIC NAME: XPACK)
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A collection of useful tools for XfreQ management by Robert
Williamson.
Xpack - 5D echomail archiver/router/queuer/scheduler
XList - lists queue for a site or all sites
Xrmv - remove a file from a site queue
Addwork - add a file to a site queue, aware of filetypes
Xq - FLO convert, scan outs, Xpack front-end
Xflo - trandparent ?lo/?ut file handler
Any of the above can be FREQed using the Magic names from:
14400bps:
fidonet#1:167/104.0
amiganet#40:600/104.0
mtlnet#17:514/300.0
Zyxel:
fidonet#1:167/151.0
amiganet#40:600/151.0