crashmail(1)

crashmail1

A fidonet *.jam and msg tosser

Usage

crashmail [SETTINGS filename] [SCAN] [TOSS] [TOSSFILE filename] [TOSSDIR directory] [SCANAREA area] [SCANLIST filename] [SENDLIST address] [SENDQUERY address] [SENDUNLINKED address] [SENDHELP address] [SENDINFO address] [REMOVE address] [RESCAN area RESCANNODE node [RESCANMAX max]] [VERSION] [LOCK] [UNLOCK] [NOSECURITY]

Overview

Welcome to CrashMail II! CrashMail II is basically a more portable version of CrashMail, my tosser for Amiga computers. Users of the old Amiga version will probably find some things familiar while some features are gone such as the ARexx port (for obvious reasons!) and the GUI configuration editor. The only feature that CrashMail II has and the old CrashMail hasn't is support for JAM messagebases.

Options

SCAN

Scan all areas for messages to export.

TOSS

Toss all .pkt files and bundles in inbound directory.

TOSSFILE filename

Toss the specified file.

TOSSDIR directory

Toss all files in the specified directory.

SCANAREA area

Scan the specified area.

SCANLIST filename

Scan all areas listed in the specified file.

RESCAN area
RESCANNODE node
RESCANMAX max

Rescans the specified area for the specified node. If RESCANMAX is specified, it sets the maximum number of messages to rescan.

SENDQUERY address

Send a list of linked areas to the REMOTESYSOP of the specified node.

SENDLIST address

Send a list of available areas to the REMOTESYSTEOP of specified node.

SENDUNLINKED address

Send a list of unlinked areas to the REMOTESYSOP of the specified node.

SENDHELP address

Send Areafix help file to the REMOTESYSOP on the specified node.

SENDINFO address

Send Areafix information (password, group access) to the REMOTESYSOP on the specified node.

SETTINGS filename

Use this configuration file instead of the default.You can use the environment variable CMCONFIGFILE to set the default configuration file.

VERSION

Show version information about CrashMail.

LOCK

Locks CrashMail's configuration file and then exits. CrashMail has a simple locking mechanism to ensure that two instances of CrashMail never use the same configuration file at the same time. You can use this if you want to temporarily want to stop CrashMail from running, e.g. when updating the nodelist.

UNLOCK

Removes the lock on CrashMail's configuration file. Only use this when the configuration file previously has been locked with LOCK, otherwise terrible things might happen.

NOSECURITY

Process all packets without security checks. This is intended to be used mainly with TOSSDIR/TOSSFILE and with packets created by CrashWrite.

Files

crashmail.prefs

Releases

13 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 2.2–7
  2. 8–9
  3. 10–13

Bugs

Win32

If you want to use an old reader that only can handle 8+3 filenames, you have to use %8 in the path of your DEFAULT area if you are using the auto-add feature. This creates an 8 digit serial number to use as the path for the area. Note that if CrashMail is run twice in a short period of time (a few seconds), it might create duplicate paths. Avoid %8 if it is at all possible.

Linux

Don't use the ~ character in paths. Such paths are expanded to point to your home directory by the shell and not by the i/o functions in the system. They will not work in CrashMail.

In *.msg areas, make sure that all files are named *.msg and not *.MSG! If they are not named in lowercase, CrashMail will not export them.

As an extra bonus, the Linux version of CrashMail can use the syslog instead of using its own log file. Just use "syslog" as the name of your log file.

If the precompiled binaries in the CrashMail archive don't work on your system, you will have to compile your own. See src/ReadMe.txt for more information about this.

Author

CrashMail is written by Johan Billing <[email protected]>

This manual page was written by Peter Karlsson <[email protected]>

From crashmail 1.7-4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.