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- MM_Spectre v1.0
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- ©1998 Neil Williams / TKG Software
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- Introduction
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- MM_Spectre is a GhostWriter, that is to say it will reply to messages in
- your absence. This is useful if you're on holiday and don't want to come
- back to several hundred "Why haven't you replied to me?" messages. This is
- fully configurable and supports E-Mail gateways via the REPLYADDR and
- REPLYTO kludges. REPLYTO isn't needed, but will be used if it's found.
-
- This program is shareware - if you like it you should send £5 (Five pounds
- Sterling) to the address below. You *do* *not* *need* to do this, as the
- program is fully usable and you won't get anything in return for your money
- (except maybe a "thank you" netmail). I would however like people who do use
- this program to at *least* send me a netmail or e-mail and tell me, so I can
- see that people are actually using my programs.
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- Legal Stuff
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS-IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
- EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. IN NO EVENT WILL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT,
- INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR DATA LOSS RESULTING FROM
- THE USE OR APPLICATION OF THIS SOFTWARE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE RESULTS
- AND PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS ASSUMED BY THE USER.
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- This program may not be converted for use with any other mail editor/tosser
- without the authors permission.
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- Author
- ~~~~~~
- Neil Williams @ 2:442/107.0
- 39:136/1.0
- y025437neil@yale.ac.uk - can be unreliable
- now2@frost3.demon.co.uk
- neil@bleach.demon.co.uk
-
- BBS: The Killing^Ground, 22:00 until 08:00 on +44 (0)1978 751393
-
- If you wish to send the shareware fee, send cash or a cheque (or something
- that can be withdrawn at a UK bank) for £5 (Five UK pounds) to :
-
- Neil Williams
- (MM Utilities)
- 23 Kent Road
- Lodge
- Wrexham
- LL11 5NW
- Great Britain
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- Make cheques payable to Neil Williams.
-
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- History
- ~~~~~~~
- 1.0 -- 22/6/98 -- First Release
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- Installation
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Depack the archive to "MM:" (i.e. the directory of MM), or you could
- dearchive it to a temporary directory and copy the files across manually..
-
- That's it! It just needs configuring now.
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- Configuration
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This is done by the usual text file in MM:Config, named MM_Spectre.CFG
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- A example configuration file is provided.
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- First you *MUST* set the areas you wish to check to "Two Pass Import" - see
- you MailManager manual for details on how to do this if you are unsure.
-
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- 1 - #AREA <Echo Tag> [<Reply Area>] e.g. #AREA MM_AMY MATRIX_AMIGA
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- An area you wish to check for personal mail. If you provide the Reply
- Area part, MM_Spectre will post the reply in there (I'd expect most
- people would have this set to a NetMail/Matrix area), otherwise the
- message will be posted in the <Echo Tag> area.
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- Multiple #AREA lines are okay.
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- 2 - #NETMAIL
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- If you have a lot of netmail areas, and perhaps are adding/removing
- them often enough to be tired of changing all your NetMail trackers
- etc. configs, then you can set this and MM_Spectre will automatically
- check all netmail/matrix areas for you. If you set this, don't have
- any netmail areas as the <Echo Tag> for the #AREA keyword (obviously
- :).
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- 3 - #NAME e.g #NAME (Neil|Neil Williams|Neil O#? Williams)
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- These are the names to check for. Using wildcards (as in the example)
- provides much faster operation, but you are free to use as many #NAME
- entries as you wish.
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- 4 - #MSG
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- All #MSG lines are used to build up the message which will be sent by
- MM_Spectre. This works a little differently from normal configuration
- options, so see the example configuration to see how this works.
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- You can use several special % codes in the message text:
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- %AREA : Area the message we found was in.
- %FROM : Sender of the message.
- %FROMADDR : Senders address.
- %TO : Who the message was to (use this to find which
- of the #NAMEs it matched)
- %TOADDR : Addressed to.
- %SUBJECT : Subject of message.
- %DATE : Date of message.
- %CURRENTDATE : The current date.
- %CURRENTTIME : .. and time.
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- 5 - #LOG <File Name> e.g. #LOG Logs:Spectre.Log
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- This will maintain a log of every message MM_Spectre replies to.
- Comment out #LOG if you don't want to log them (if you don't often
- purge your message base, for example).
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- Usage
- ~~~~~
-
- [RX] MM_Spectre[.rexx]
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- There are no command line arguments. MM_Spectre should be run shortly after
- mail import, and before export. Ideally you are running MM_ImportPlus and
- MM_ExportPlus by Robert Hoffman and can therefore add these to
- MM_ImportPlus.cfg, in this order:
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- #ECHOMAILCMD RX MM:Rexx/MM_Spectre
- #ECHOMAILCMD RX MM:Rexx/MM_ExportPlus <areas configured in MM_Spectre>
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- Remember that all areas you wish to check must be Two Pass Import in
- MailManager.
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- Miscellaneous
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you want details of all new programs and updates I release, send a
- netmail to `TKG-Info' at any of the addresses listed below with a subject
- line of `SUBSCRIBE' and you will be put on to my information list. Whenever
- a new program is released, a message will be sent telling you.
-
- FidoNet 2:442/107.0
- AmigaNet 39:136/1.0
- AmNet 69:101/16.0
-
- Messages will be sent to you via the network you mail me. Please include
- some details with your message (the message body will be logged) telling me
- about your system, what new programs and utilities you'd like to see, or
- any improvements that could be done to current programs.
-
- There should be a MailManager program 'TKG-Info.exe' included with this
- package which you can use to do this for you automatically.
-
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- If you crash the netmail, please keep in mind that my system is on-line
- from 22:00 until 08:00 British time.
-
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- Notes:
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- relating to:
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