CRASHMAIL(1)							     CrashMail							      CRASHMAIL(1)

NAME

       crashmail - A Fidonet *.JAM and MSG tosser

SYNOPSIS

       crashmail  [SETTINGS  filename] [SCAN] [TOSS] [TOSSFILE filename] [TOSSDIR directory] [SCANAREA area] [SCANLIST filename] [RESCAN area RES-
       CANNODE node [RESCANMAX max]] [VERSION] [LOCK] [UNLOCK] [NOSECURITY]

DESCRIPTION

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

       SETTINGS filename
	      Use this configuration file instead of the default.You can use the environment variable CMCONFIGFILE to set the  default	configura-
	      tion 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 Crash-
	      Mail 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.

SEE ALSO

       crashexport(1), crashlist(1), crashmaint(1), crashwrite(1), crashgetnode(1), crashstats(1)

FILES

       crashmail.prefs

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 <billing@df.lth.se>

       This manual page was written by Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>

Johan Billing							    1999-08-01							      CRASHMAIL(1)