Subj : Re-attach abandoned mail archives?
To   : Johan Zwiekhorst
From : Gord Hannah
Date : Thu Oct 09 2003 07:17 pm

Following up a message from Bob Jones to Johan Zwiekhorst About Re-attach 
abandoned mail archives?:

BJ> Yaboom also comes to mind, but I don't remember the details for that
BJ> utility.... 

I do not know if the author is still around, at least by internet. I do not see 
him in my nodelist.


                                 YaBom V3.00
                    Yet Another Binkley Outbound Manager
             A fully 5D aware Outbound Manager/Packer/Scheduler
                         Berin Lautenbach 1991-1995
                              3:620/248@fidonet
                             blautenb@auug.org.au

 I. Introduction

 Just after Binkley Term 2.50 was released, I decided to convert from
 Front Door.  It was something I'd wanted to do for a while, but I run
 quite a few points off the system, as well as operating in two
 domains, and the idea of converting from 4D (nearly 5D) aware
 software to pointnets didn't do much for me :>. When Binkley 2.50 was
 released, I jumped in feet first, and converted over, thinking that
 software would be released very quickly to support the 5D address
 system of the new Binkley.  I was wrong.  After a few weeks of
 fudging mail packing, I got a bit fed up and decided to write my own.
 (I ran a Remote Access system, and use IMail for Echo Mail,
 converting the file attaches to ?LO files using this little beast).
 YaBom is the result.

 YaBom is a complete Binkley Term outbound handler.  It packs all
 Netmail into the correct bundle types for the correct destinations,
 preserving all message attributes (such as packing crash messages
 into a *.CUT file), and preserves all file attach attributes (such as
 Delete and Truncate when sent).

 It also schedules all the mail in the outbound area according to
 timed events set up in an external route file, very similar to that
 used in QMail or Front Door, thus allowing you to poll nodes or send
 mail at particular times, according to particular nodes, during the
 day.

 The third major feature of YaBom is that it provides an outbound
 manager, allowing you to manipulate the outbound area, down to
 deleting messages and files WITHIN an outbound packet, and changing
 outbound types by hand.  This allows the Sysop of a Binkley Board to
 handle the mail properly according to his/her needs.

 All this is done with full 5D support, and the outbound manager uses
 the V7 nodelist to look up systems.  To run most effectively it must
 also have its own (small) index file that allows it to look up nets
 quickly and efficiently.

Hope this helps.  Keep us posted.

We are a fine board trying to make it better.
http://www.pris.bc.ca/ghannah
ghannah@pris.bc.ca
Cheers! Gord
-=Team OS/2=-
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 * Origin: Marsh BBS (c), Dawson Creek, BC Canada (1:17/23.1)

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