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Description of CrashMail's built-in AreaFix
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What is AreaFix?
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AreaFix is a feature present at most FidoNet nodes, either built-in in
the tosser or as a stand-alone program. AreaFix allows you to connect
and disconnect to echomail areas, change your password and change some
other things in your configuration without asking your feed/boss to do
it for you.
How do I use AreaFix?
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You communicate with AreaFix using netmail messages. The message header
of a message to AreaFix should look like this:
From: Johan Billing
To: AreaFix
Subj: <password> [<switches>]
<AreaFix commands>
...
---
<Password> is your private AreaFix password that you need to make sure
that nobody else alters your configuration. Your AreaFix password is
assigned by your boss/feed, so you may have to ask him about a password.
[<switches>] are extra commands that you can send to AreaFix. Currently
there is only one switch:
-l or -q Send list of all areas
This switch is only here to be compatible with other AreaFix programs.
It is recommended that you use the %-commands described later instead.
"---" marks the end of an AreaFix message.
NOTE: The name doesn't necessarily has to be AreaFix, your boss may have
configured CrashMail to use other names instead.
What commands can I put in the text?
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Change connected areas:
[+]areaname[,R=<max>] Connect to an area. The '+' is optional. If
the R option is specified after the area,
that number of old messages in the area will
be rescanned and sent to you.
-areaname Disconnect from an area
=areaname[,R=<max>] Update an area. This is useful if you want to
rescan an area you are already connected to.
Special commands
%HELP Send this text
%LIST Send list of all areas
%QUERY Send list of all linked areas
%UNLINKED Send list of all unlinked areas
%PAUSE Do not send any echomail until a %RESUME is sent
%RESUME Send echomail again. These commands can be very
handy if you are away for a few weeks and don't
want to get any echomail.
%PWD <pw> Changes your AreaFix password to the new password
specified after the command.
%COMPRESS <name> Changes the packer used to compress your mail to
the packer specified after the command. Send
"%COMPRESS ?" to get a list of packers.
%RESCAN All areas that are added or updated after this
line will be rescanned, that is all old messages
in those areas will be sent to you. This can be
very dangerous since you don't know how many
messages you will get, so in most cases, it is
better to use the R option when adding/updating
areas instead.
Examples:
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R20_TRASHCAN Connect to R20_TRASHCAN
%LIST Send list of areas
R20_AMIGA,R=50 Connect to R20_AMIGA and get the last 50 messages
in the area.
%PWD xyzzy Change your AreaFix password to "xyzzy".
%COMPRESS ZIP Change your compression method to ZIP.
%PAUSE Turn off echomail for a while
%RESUME Turn on echomail again
=R20_AMIGA,R=100 Get the last 100 messages in R20_AMIGA (if you are
already connected to the area)
A few words on rescan
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Messages that are rescanned won't look exactly like they originally did
because of the way they are stored locally. Please think of that when
reading them.
For example, these things can be changed:
o The character set of the message may be changed. In some cases, the
original character set can be found in the "^a_CHRS" control line,
but not always.
o The address in the Origin line may have a "@fidonet" or another
domain name added.
o A program name may have been added after the tearline ("---").
o All control lines ("kludges") are in the beginning of a message
regardless of where they originally were. This only happens if
your uplink uses a UMS messagebase.
You can easily tell if a message has been rescanned, just look for the
^aRESCANNED control line.