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- -=< C O M M A N D R E F E R E N C E >=-
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- Ezycom 1.10 Echomail Area Manager
-
-
- What is EchoArea?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- EchoArea is a part of the Ezycom mail processor. It is used
- to update and maintain your echomail profile without needing
- to bother your host with requests - EchoArea will process them
- automatically.
-
- How to use EchoArea.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To access EchoArea send a netmail message to your host,
- addressed to EchoArea. EchoArea will also respond to messages
- for AreaFix and AreaMgr.
-
- eg. To: EchoArea, 3:633/270
-
- To safeguard your echomail profile, you must specify a
- password on the subject line of the netmail message. If you
- don't have a password, or you don't know what it is then
- contact your host.
-
- eg. To: EchoArea, 3:633/270
- Re: password
-
- Echomail profile maintenance.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- EchoArea's main use is to add/remove your node to/from your
- host's export list. To do this, you simply tell EchoArea the
- area tag of the conference(s) you want to pick up or drop.
-
- For example, to add the Ezycom support conference (EC_SUPPORT)
- to your system you would send a message like:
-
- To: EchoArea, 3:633/270
- Re: password
- ----------------------------------------
- +EC_SUPPORT
-
- Note that the '+' sign in front of the name is optional.
-
- To remove a conference is very similar, only you put a '-'
- sign in front of the conference name instead of a '+'. In
- this case the prefix is not optional. For example, to get rid
- of an echo you are no longer interested in send a message
- like:
-
- To: EchoArea, 3:633/270
- Re: password
- ----------------------------------------
- -BORING_ECHO_CONF
-
- As many of these commands as you like can be combined into the
- one message, so both of the above examples could have been in
- one request:
-
- To: EchoArea, 3:633/270
- Re: password
- ----------------------------------------
- EC_SUPPORT
- -BORING_ECHO_CONF
- ---
-
- Note the tear line (row of dashes) at the end of this example.
- Everything after the tear line is ignored, so you can also
- send comments or queries to your host. This is useful if you
- have a question relating to your conference setup or have
- problems using EchoArea.
-
- Options.
- ~~~~~~~~
- There are several optional commands that can be invoked by
- either putting a parameter after your password on the subject
- line or by placing a control command in the message text. All
- parameters are preceeded by a '-' character, commands by a '%'
- sign.
-
- -Q, %QUERY : Query.
-
- The query command will cause EchoArea to create a list of
- all the echomail areas that your system has linked and
- send it back to you.
-
- -L, %LIST : List.
-
- This is similar to the -Q command above, but it lists all
- the echomail areas available, and the areas you already
- have.
-
- -U, %UNLINKED : Unlinked
-
- This is the opposite of the -Q, in that it will create a
- list of all the echomail areas your system does not have,
- and send it back to you.
-
- -R, %RESCAN : Rescan
-
- All conferences added in the area manager message, will
- be rescanned. Rescan means that all the old messages
- in the area are bundled up and sent. This is mainly used
- for getting the old messages when adding new areas. This
- option will also post a message to the host system's
- operator, observing that a rescan has been performed.
-
- The control command version of the rescan command is
- slightly different. While the '-R' version will rescan
- all areas listed, the '%RESCAN' will only cause a rescan
- on areas listed after the command. This is useful if you
- only want to rescan one area.
-
- -H, %HELP : Help.
-
- EchoArea will send this help file back to you in a
- netmail message.
-
- -All, %+ALL : All on.
-
- The all command will turn on all available areas to your
- system. Saves doing thirty or so area names.
-
- -NoAll, %-ALL : All off.
-
- The all off command is the exact opposite to the all
- command. It will turn all echomail areas off for your
- system.
-
- %PAUSE : Pause Mail.
-
- This command temporarily turns off the mail for yourself,
- while you are on holidays for example. The mail can be
- resumed with %RESUME. Note that no areas are actually
- turned off, the mail is just stopped.
-
- %RESUME : Resume Mail.
-
- This command resumes mail that had been previously paused
- using the %PAUSE command.
-
- %COMMENT : Comment
-
- Identical to the tear line, '---', at the end of a
- message. Everything following a %COMMENT command is
- ignored.
-
-
- To: EchoArea, 3:633/270
- Re: password -All
- ----------------------------------------
- -BORING_ECHO_CONF
- %COMMENT
- Hi there!
-
- In this example, all conferences would be turned on, and the
- BORING_ECHO_CONF will be turned off. The %COMMENT line is
- used to tell EchoArea to disregard all lines after it as
- they are comments.
-
- If you have any problems using EchoArea contact your host, an
- Ezycom support site or one of the beta testers for more help.
-