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Marsmail ver 0.2 GNU-GPL by Eddie Dunckley & Gert Cronje of RAU Engineering.
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---------------- bug reports:eddie@eng.rau.ac.za gac@chopin.rau.ac.za
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This whole package is licensed under the GNU Public License.
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See the file COPYING for details.
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Marsmail is a pascal frontend for mail that translates the
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unix mailfile into smaller files that pegasus mail understands.
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Please examine all the files carefully as this is not a commercial
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program suite, it's freeware. Written by staff/students for students..
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file list:
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327 Feb 4 11:53 marsmail.doc This doc file
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8608 Feb 4 11:48 marsmail.exe dos executable to convert mail
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5480 Feb 4 12:51 marsmail.pas dos sources for marsmail
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1430 Feb 4 13:32 monlan Basic monitor for LAN/WAN
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12051 Feb 4 13:12 newuser.pl Process the user application
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3757 Feb 4 12:50 nomasteruser deletes users with cleanup
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4080 Feb 4 11:32 ohbirthcheck birthday reminder script
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793 Feb 4 11:34 ohexiry expire accounts on mars/samba
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13141 Feb 4 13:18 ohform.htm User application form for Mars server
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1296 Feb 4 11:35 ohlogscr.bat modified supervisor login script
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690 Feb 4 09:32 ohmail automatic mail notifier start script
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6648 Feb 4 10:50 ohmasteruser creates new users with extra features
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1381 Feb 4 09:27 ohmessage automatic mail notifier main script
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1046 Feb 4 09:33 ohpostme handles posting from pegasus to unix
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3585 Feb 4 10:35 ohquota Disk quota accounting automated
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856 Feb 4 09:34 ohsendnt Console broadcast script
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1954 Feb 4 11:45 pmail.bat front-end dos batch file for pmail
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8161 Feb 4 11:48 pmdflts.ini pmail defaults for all users
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1024 Feb 4 11:48 pmgate.sys USER defined gateway via pconfig
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859 Feb 4 11:00 wwwhomepage Creates homepages for new users.
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what's new
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Lot's of automation....
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Lot's of new ideas ie birthday reminders, expiry scripts etc etc
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Better docs
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Procedure:
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Take a deep breath and realize that there is no install script.
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Make sure your mars is running successfully and dos users can log into
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the server with normal novell client software. Make sure your directory
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layout for Mars looks simmular to the one listed in this document. Get a good
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editor for linux to edit the scripts to suite your company's needs. Get
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the pegasus mail program from one of it's mirror sites. Unpack and follow it's
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install method. DON't use pegasus's bindery features to fetch mail in the
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SYS:\mail locations. This requires a mercury.nlm that cannot run on linux.
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You can attempt using the pmpop utilities for dos to fetch mail via pop from
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the server, (which might have been the best possible solution if it worked),
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but there is a seperate project to edit the ini file on the fly for multiple
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users....
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Make sure you map drive I: to the user's home directory (or change the
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scripts). I've used a map root i:=sys:\home\%name% to do this in the
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master mars login script that can be created with syscon.
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Start by examining each script carefully - there is a lot of undocumented
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features in them... Then start by editing the pmdflts.ini to suite your needs.
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Use the one included as a template. Read the pmail docs carefully.
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Link your unix mailboxes into your mars SYS
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volume space i.e. ln -s /var/spool/mail /home/SYS/unixmail
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Run pconfig to create a user defined gateway. Mine looked like this:
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Pegasus Mail/DOS Configuration v3.11
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____+---------------------- User Gateway Definition ----------------------+_____
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___ <20> <20>_____
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___ <20> Gateway name : [OH ] <20>+____
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___ <20> *New mail path : i:\pmail\in <20><>____
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___ <20> Is a program to run? : N <20><>____
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___ <20> *New mail search mask : *.cnm <20><>____
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___ <20> *Outgoing mail path : i:\pmail\OUT <20><>____
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___ <20> *Run for outgoing mail : <20><>____
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___ <20> *Filename format : ~d~d.CNM <20><>____
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___ <20> Run to validate address : <20><>____
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___ <20> *Reply address format : ~n@eng.rau.ac.za <20><>____
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___ <20> Accepts SMTP addresses? : Y <20><>____
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___ <20> Simple message headers? : Simple headers <20><>____
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___ <20> UUEncode attachments? : N <20><>____
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___ <20> Burst messages? : N <20><>____
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___ <20> Strip gateway name? : Y <20><>____
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___ <20> Force all mail through? : Y <20><>____
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___ <20> <20><>____
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___ <20> The name users will use to access this gateway. Addresses will <20><>____
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___ <20> be entered in the form GWNAME/address. <20><>____
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___ <20> <20>+____
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___ +---------------------------------------------------------------------+_____
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___ ______
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Check if your unixmail is secure i.e. mars users cannot read each others mail.
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This can be done by loggin in from a dos box with different user names and
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trying to view the sys:\unixmail\%name% files
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Edit the pmail.bat to suite your needs. Make sure the drive mappings is correct.
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i.e. I: maps to userdir. Compile the marsmail.pas to suite your needs if needed.
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Test to see if you can read mail from pegasus and that the gateway places
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outgoing messages in i:\pmail\out.
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Edit the ohpostme scripts until it posts mail out for your users.
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This can be tested by posting a message with pmail, seeing if a file is created
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in i:\pmail\out, and waiting for ohpostme to visit the directory, removing and
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posting the file.
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Deploy (!) the ohmail and ohmessage scripts to run out of rc.local or however
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you prefer. See if it notifies the user when new mail arrives.... You can
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tail -f the log files to see what is happening. A note on samba notification:
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the message gets sent to a machine instead of a user.
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Decide if you want to use the new adduser script called ohmasteruser and
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nomasteruser for creating users and destroying users on a mars aware unix
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server. MAKE BACKUPS of your original passwd files etc before continueing.
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Note this new adduser creates /etc/expiry /etc/birthdays /etc/ohmyusers
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/etc/ohmaillist
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Remove users from ohmaillist to prevent them from mailing
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Remove users from expiry to prevent account expiry
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Remove users from birthdays to prevent birthday notification
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Please note the change to passwd file:
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auser:x:505:512:A dummy user:/hamster/home/./auser:/etc/ftponly
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The extra dot after home forces ftp to see this as the root, thus
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allowing the ftp to enter ../httpd/html/auser via the link. Note that
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/app or unixmail cannot be reached via ftp.
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Edit your mars's net$log.dat in SYS:\public to exit to the extended login
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script ohlogscr.bat that actually creates the users with a default password
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on the mars server. Modify the wwwhomepage script to create homepages for
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your new users.
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You might need to either install quotas or remove mentioning of quotas from
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the scripts.
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Customize the ohform.htm to your needs and decide if you would like to use it
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as a user application form from the web. The apache server can run on the
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same server as mars.... ohform.htm calls newuser.pl that creates a script file
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to ease the user creation. newuser.pl sends mail to admin user to inform him
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of the new application.
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These scripts can handle shadow passwords. Create a blank file /etc/ftponly
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and use this dummy shell for users to prevent them from telnetting to the
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server. Mail fetching via pop and ftp will continue to work.
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Suggested directory structure for good operation...
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/apps
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/base
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/base/SYS (mars server SYS volume)
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/base/SYS/unixmail ln -s /var/spool/mail /base/SYS/unixmail
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/base/SYS/apps ln -s /apps /base/SYS/apps
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/base/SYS/home ln -s ../home home
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/base/home base home directories
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/base/home/auser (Yip, the user's home dir)
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/base/home/auser/www ln -s ../httpd/html/dummyuser www
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/base/home/auser/pmail gets created from /etc/skel used for pmail
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/base/home/httpd/html Web server root space
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/base/home/httpd/html/main non-user related space.
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/base/home/httpd/html/auser (user's www space)
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You can now even share the apps, home dirs and unixmail with samba and you've
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got a complete novell and nt server all in one, sharing the same space!
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If you find ANY errors with this doc or missing files please let me know...
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The marsmail is just a dirty hack to satisfy the dos users. Stick with
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pop3 or imap to fetch mail via tcpip from win95, os2, wfw, linux and other.
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The other stuff included with marsmail is just to automate as much as possible
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for our poor overworked netadmins!
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