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THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS". THE AUTHOR PROVIDES NO WARRANTIES
WHATSOEVER, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE
AUTHOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT USE OF THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT INFRINGE THE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ANY THIRD PARTY IN ANY COUNTRY.
Comments and/or bug reports should be addressed to:
john@johncon.com (John Conover)
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To install the wide area email information retrieval system, it is
assumed that you have some proficiency with procmail and smartlist.
1) install procmail and smartmail. Both are available via anonymous
ftp from: ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (137.226.225.3) in
/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz and
/pub/packages/procmail/SmartList.tar.gz
note: there are mailing lists available for help on using these
programs: contact procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
2) install the rel program as per the INSTALL file in the rel
directory
3) create a mailing list, using the -a option to createlist, as
per the Manual file in the smartlist directory
4) very important, ls -al the new archive directory that was just
created, and using the delink program that is supplied with
smartlist, unlink ALL files in the directory
5) copy the contents of this directory into the new archive directory,
overwriting the files that were delink'ed
the files:
rc.custom
rc.request
rc.submit
arch_retrieve
will be overwritten
6) customize the following files:
rc.custom
help.txt (optional)
archive.txt (optional)
accept
in rc.ccustom, change the list maintainer to your email address,
and make new a help.txt and archive.txt that is appropriate for
your environment-add a the list of email addresses that have
access to the system to the accept file
note: there are several versions of the rc.custom, rc.request,
and rc.submit files; they very in the security offered-choose
as you see fit-as installed, anyone in the world can submit
email, but requests are restricted to those on the accept list,
which can be changed by cp rc.custom.most.secure rc.custom, and
cp rc.submit.most.secure rc.submit
7) to test the system, send an email to the archive with the
word "wxyz" in it and see if it stores it-if it does, send an
email to the request archive with a "Subject: archive" record
and a single line "rel wxyz" and see if it fetches the email
that was deposited; it should be returned in a MIME digest,
which can be burst, and then responded to, etc.
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