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Uucp/Fido Mailing List Manager
Ver 04.08.88 - 0.1.3.beta
Ok, gang, here's the current version of my maillist program. It was
quickly hacked in around 5 hours (and shows it). Several things
are left the way they are for debugging and will be cleaned up
when it is working smoothly on several machines.
Maillist will handle a standard uucp style mailing list by bouncing
mail to a 'special' user to all users listed for that list. It will
also import and export a mailing list to a fidonet echomail conference.
The 'special' user name, optional echomail subdir and receipient list
is kept in a file called 'mail.ctl' which should reside in the current
subdirectory. See the accompaned example for it's format.
Currntly there are no command line switches. Debugging level is fixed
at full on and no logfiles are kept.
Caveats (known 'features' :-)
All messages are processed in the fido format. Conversion to rfc-822
is done by mailout or fidouucp.
All fidonet kludges are left intact for the time being. I didn't want
to start playing around with the message until everything else was
working smoothly. Seen-by's, and other ^a kludges will be stripped
in the near future.
Any comments on the exported message formats should be directed to
/dev/null (always wanted to say that :-). Seriously, just let me
know your gripes, as I'm sure there will be.
Messages probably will be bounced back to the originator of the message
for the time being. As soon as mailout/fidouucp will punt a domain
name to the closest site running smail the problem may be resolved.
Well that's about it for now, as always let me know what problems/suggestions
you may have...
Take care,
Garry.
History :
03.06.88 - 0.0.3.beta
- first outside release
03.09.88 - 0.0.4.beta
- fixed :
made imported messages public
insured imported message had a from name in the
fido header
inserted a dash in the fido keywords
fixed high message number calculation
03.14.88 - 0.1.0.beta
- changed newline so hopefully fidouucp will work
properly.
deletes seen-by's, ifna kludges, and any line
starting with '--- ' (three dashes and a space).
03.26.88 - 0.1.1.beta
- linked with a stack of 4000. Wasn't released since
it didn't help
04.04.88 - 0.1.2.beta
- calloc'd memory instead of pulling off the stack and
relaxed a bound check (it was overkill)
04.07.88 - 0.1.3.beta
- rewrote the message translation section to be tolerant
of long lines, replaced soft carriage returns with
hard cr's. now strips Path line as well.