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To: postmaster
From: newsbase@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
Subject: Welcome to Newsbase
Reply-To: gta@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1994 17:12:53 -0600
Message-ID: <19941104.171253.38@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu>
Organization: Utility Spam Research Kitchen
Welcome to Newsbase. By now you must have at least partially set up your
Newsbase configuration. This message will further explain some of the
options you can choose, and what they mean.
But first, a few words on what Newsbase actually does. The intent is to
provide a central service for the handling of internet mail and usenet
news, in a way that doesn't depend on either the application you use to
actually read and reply to your news and mail, or on the details of the
network which bring them to you.
Newsbase sits somewhere between the offline newsreaders widely used in the
PC world, and traditional unix-style news server software. The network
transports currently supported are the freeware dialup TCP/IP package KA9Q
(also known as !TCPIP), and Taylor uucp. Work is also under way on an
interface to Acorn TCP/IP, but it should be possible to cater for many other
types of transport (for example, downloaded PC-style SOUP files, as
generated by the unix utility "uqwk").
Newsbase provides the following features:
* Multiple users per site.
* Fully automatic interaction with transports (ka9q, uucp), including
detection of configuration, reception and sending of files, alteration
of configuration (where appropriate for the transport).
* Automatic database management with indexing for fast article lookup.
* Fully configurable message/article expiry, set individually for
each group.
* Handling of article cancellations and "Supersedes" headers.
* Interactive addition of new groups.
* Correct, automatic handling of postings to moderated newsgroups.
* Optional news posting via mail gateway.
* Automatic filing of outgoing messages for later reference.
* Local (site-only) newsgroups.
* Article/message filters - message junk, kill, redirection, feed to
external program.
* Mail forwarding.
* Mail vacation handling.
* Confirmation of mail delivery (Return-Receipt handling).
Hopefully, you found installation and first-time setup of Newsbase an easy
and painless experience. Some of the many configuration options can be
confusing at first, but in most cases Newsbase will attempt to set sensible
defaults. If you have any difficulty, please read the !Help file first.
Further information on several subjects is present in the "docs" directory
within !Newsbase - you can access this by double-clicking on the !Newsbase
application while holding down the SHIFT key. Please do not alter or delete
any of the files within !Newsbase unless you are sure you know what you're
doing!
A few configuration options are worth spending a couple more words on.
* Automatic expiry (Newsgroups control panel)
This has an option to expire mail as well as news. It is highly recommended
that you leave this set to expire news only, and delete your unwanted mail
messages manually. People rarely want to have their email deleted
automatically as it ages!
* Retain batches (General control panel)
This option keeps batch files for several days before deleting them. It is
meant to provide insurance in case of errors; however these seem to be rare
events, so if you can't afford the disk space to keep these used batches
around, feel free to disable this option.
* Default reader (General control panel)
You can drag your favourite newsreader here (from a filer window) to make it
the default - if Newsbase is set to announce new arrivals, this reader will
be started automatically when you click on the "Read" button.
To: postmaster
From: newsbase@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
Subject: Using Newsbase with !TCPIP
Reply-To: gta@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1994 17:12:53 -0600
Message-ID: <19941104.171253.37@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu>
Organization: Utility Spam Research Kitchen
This message describes some of the key features of Newsbase when used with
ka9q/!TCPIP.
Newsbase handles reception of newly-arrived news and mail files
automatically, debatching them as soon as they become available. If you want
to prevent this, you can disable "Automatic debatch" in the General control
panel, but in most cases, debatching seems to have little impact on the
speed of ftp transfers, etc, occurring at the same time.
If you have more than one news server defined, Newsbase will treat one as
the "primary" server for the addition of new groups. It should not, in
general, be necessary to manually edit the xxxGroup files (eg, DemGroup), as
Newsbase can add and remove groups automatically. However, if you *do* edit
these files yourself, please do it while newsbase is not running, otherwise
an inconsistent state can result. This will not have any particularly
disastrous results, but it is better avoided. Newsbase will notice the
updated files when it next starts up and reread their contents.
Newsbase makes manual "trimming" of the !TCPIP news history files (usually
found in <NNTP$Dir>.xxxHist) unnecessary. These files normally have to be
kept to a reasonable length to prevent excessive memory use by !TCPIP (and
crashes, in earlier versions). Newsbase trims these files automatically
after each debatch, keeping by default the last 3 days worth of history
information. This can be altered by editing the "postfetch" transport
file. If you are using !TCPIP 2.02 or later, this function is no longer
required (the history files are managed directly by !TCPIP), but no
changes are required for Newsbase to cater for this.
Outgoing mail to multiple recipients is queued so as to avoid sending it to
each person individually, where possible. Newsbase does this by using the
"Remote host" entry in the Site Control Panel. This should normally contain
your "smtp gateway" host name - newsbase will forward the message to this
host for distribution to all the recipients.
Newsbase will normally post news articles using the direct NNTP posting
feature of !TCPIP. If you would rather send them by email, using a
mail-to-news gateway, set this option in the General Control panel, along
with your preferred gateway. Newsbase will then automatically convert news
postings into mail messages to this address.
Newly created newsgroups (those normally listed in the !TCPIP "xxxNG" files)
are handled in two ways. Firstly, newsbase will create "fake" news articles
in the group "newsbase.control", for easy viewing in your newsreader.
Secondly, the groupnames are stored by Newsbase for a configurable length of
time. You can step through this list using the "New Groups" option from the
Groups Control Panel, adding them to your newsfeed individually.
To: postmaster
From: newsbase@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
Subject: Updates to Newsbase 0.53
Reply-To: gta@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:12:53 -0600
Message-ID: <19950217.171253.38@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu>
Organization: Utility Spam Research Kitchen
Welcome to Newsbase 0.53. This message briefly describes some of the
changes since 0.51 and 0.52, the last generally-available versions.
* Filters
These are now much improved over the ones in 0.51. Up to 3 conditions may
be combined to trigger any one filter, based on the contents of the To,
From, Subject or Newsgroups headers. The "To" condition now also checks
the contents of "Cc:" and "X-Originally-To:" headers, if present. Multiple
conditions may be linked by AND or OR. Condition strings may now contain
"*" wildcards. The "Redirect" filter can now redirect articles to groups
in addition to the original destinations, as well as replacing the
originals.
* Cosmetics
Templates and other parts of the user interface have been changed to be
more closely compliant with the Style Guide.
* Outgoing news and mail
Newsbase will now internally queue news and mail if insufficient memory
is available to run the appropriate transport program. They will be
sent to the transport later when resources permit.
* News posting
The option of sending news by email via a mail2news gateway has been
added.
Newsbase now supports "local" newsgroups on the individual machine, under
the "newsbase.*" hierarchy. Articles posted to these groups are not sent
out via the network transport, but simply filed locally. Crossposting
between "newsbase.*" and real usenet groups is prevented.
* New groups
Newsbase can now process the "new groups" information returned by some
transports (eg ka9q). It is now possible to step through the list of new
groups and add them to your newsfeed individually.
* New options
Return-Receipt mail processing can now be disabled.
Creation of spurious newsgroups of the type
"alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork" can be selectively disabled.
Expiry time menus now have a writable entry to accept any value.
The minimum disk space threshold before Newsbase suspends operstions
is now configurable.
* News directory update
The !NewsDir application is now automatically updated with new !Boot, !Run
files, etc, if required.
* RISC OS 3.5
Newsbase now supports RISC OS 3.5 explicitly, using dynamic areas for
various memory buffers. Several bugs in dynamic area handling from
Newsbase 0.52 are now fixed.
* Article compression
Articles can now be compressed to save disc space. Articles are
compressed during group expiry, and decompressed when requested by a
client (eg, TTFN). For additional compression support, copy Acorn's
"squash" program (from !Squash, supplied with RISC OS) into
!Newsbase.support.newsbase, where Newsbase will use it as a fallback
should its own routines fail.
* Expiry scheduling
You can now specify a time of day for expiry to take place, rather than
it occurring automatically after a debatch.
* Log file
Newsbase now keeps fairly detailed information in its log file, including
details of new mail received, mail or news sent, batch files processed,
groups created or deleted, and any errors which occur.
* Errors
If Newsbase crashes or displays other errors, please report them to me
at allan@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu, including as much detail as possible. Useful
information includes:
- the version number of Newsbase
- type of computer (Risc PC or Archimedes) & memory size
- what Newsbase was doing at the time of the error, with related
information:
- batch type and size, if the error was during debatch
- transport type if the error was in sending mail or news
- any special circumstances (low disc space, low memory, etc).
Newsbase does now keep a fairly detailed logfile: please examine this
before reporting errors as it may contain useful information.
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