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