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From: dmitton@mulberry.com (Douglas E. Mitton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno
Subject: Re: Local GNO/ME EMail System!!
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:39:55 GMT
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dmitton@mulberry.com (Douglas E. Mitton) wrote:

>Does anyone know of a working local EMail system for GNO/ME??

Dragon King (markhj01@winternet.com) responded:

My news server hasn't received your response yet BUT it was forwarded
to me ... THANKS!!!

I now have an Emacs, MuGS, sendmail local Email system working.

I'm posting the following notes that I made for my self so that I'll
remember why I did certain things in the future ... I modified your
basic approach slightly!!!    :-)    {Just in case someone else wants
to try!!!)

The formatting seems to be slightly messed after transferring from my
//gs and GNO/ME ...

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960330:

Finally got local mail to work on GNO/ME ... just documenting it.

1) Applications:
- Emacs (3.11c)  => Editor system which provides basis for system.

- MuGS  (3.0d25) => uEMACS based mail/news system.
              - Customized to:
                - Look for incoming mail in ':var:mail:$user'.
                - Place outgoing mail in ':spool:sendmail:out:'.
              - Modified 'mugs' shell script to sendmail from '.:out:'
                and delete spooled files on exit from MUGS.
              - ie. New 'mugs*' file:
			cat /usr/bin/mugs.title
			emacs @$mugs:mugs.rc
			echo "... Sending Mail ..."
			/usr/sbin/sendmail </spool/sendmail/out/*
			rm /spool/sendmail/out/*

- sendmail (?.??)  => Mail transport system; must be manually invoked.
                   => With some protection, can be automated with
'cron'.
                   => 'conf' file MUST have 'local' option activated.

- ':etc:namespace'
  - Must have ':var:' and ':spool:' defined.
    - :var   = ':*:gno:var:'
    - :spool = ':*:gno:var:spool:'

- ':usr:bin:chkmail' (daemon)(?)
  - Need a way to check for New Mail on login.
  - Need a way to be advised of new mail while logged in.


2) Directories:
- ':var:mail:$user'      => Local users mailboxes.
- ':spool:sendmail:'     => Default for external mail.
- ':spool:sendmail:in:'  => Standard for external mail.
- ':spool:sendmail:out:' => Outgoing mail; internal/external.

- '$home:MUGS:'              => Users MUGS configuration and
customization.
                                - 'mugs.rc' must be customized for
user.

- ':usr:lib:sendmail.d:conf' => Sendmail configuration.


3) Mechanism:
- Place properly formatted mail file in ':spool:sendmail:out:'.
- Invoke ':usr:sbin:sendmail <:spool:sendmail:out:*' to send/process.
- Clean out '...:out:' after successful send.
- Local mail is placed in ':var:mail:$user' mailboxes.
- Remote mail is placed in ':spool:sendmail:' by default.
  - This must be handled by an 'rmail' type application to upload to
host.


4) Updates Required:
- MuGS   => Bugs?
  - Reply doesn't always work ... sometimes just 'Press any key ...'
     but no visible error message.
  - Quoting in reply message doesn't seem to work.
    - Note 'r' reply NO quote; 'R' reply WITH quoting.
    - Regardless of defaults you specify in '$home:mugs:mugs.rc'.
  - Saving uses current directory, not save mail directory.
  - All sent mail is archived in '$user:MUGS:send'; gets out of
control.
  - Creates '$user:MUGS:Index.*' files; gets out of control.
  - No copy (cc:) facility.
  - Crashes sometimes after multiple accesses ... tried changing
':tmp:'
     from limited sized ':RAM5:' to ':xxx:Mail:' harddrive based temp.
(?)

- Mail   => Consolidation!
  - Intelligence to 'sendmail'; spool cleanup operation.
    - Right now just works blindly and 'error' message if no files to
send.
  - Report new mail ON login.
  - Report new mail WHILE logged in.
  - Initiate MuGS mail system.
  - House clean personal user MuGS configuration.
    - 'Index*' and 'send' files.

- RMail  => External Access!
  - Send external mail from ':spool:sendmail:*' to remote system.
  - Retrieve external mail from remote system.
    - Save in ':spool:sendmail:in:'.
    - Initiate ':usr:sbin:sendmail <:spool:sendmail:in:*' and clean
       out spool on successful delivery.

- RNews  => External News Access ????

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Doug Mitton
 * In Brockville, Ontario, Canada
   (City of the Thousand Islands!)
EMail: dmitton@mulberry.com
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