PowerMail is configured through a text file which
you may place in your home directory, called .soprc.
If this file is not present, the default behaviour
corresponds to a .soprc like so:
BounceFile
.redirect
InfobotDir .
Please
note that the above two directives are not defaults!
A blank .soprc is not the same as a
non-existent one. If you create a .soprc with no
BounceFile directive, for example, .redirect
will not be checked. Think of that .soprc as a
default in the absence of anything else, not of
those two directives individually as defaults. Use
the above as a starting point for any .soprc you
make.
Most
people don't need to create a .soprc or read the
following because that default is meant to be the
most useful configuration.
a)
BounceFile
Also
known as RedirectFile. Specifies a file which will
be parsed for mail redirection. In that file, the
first word on a line gives an alias for your domain,
and the following word(s) give the destination. So
the line:
info info@capriinfosoft.com
will redirect mail originally sent to info@yourdomain.com to
info@capriinfosoft.com.
And the line:
support tech@capriinfosoft.com admin@capriinfosoft.com
will redirect mail for that alias to the two addresses given.
b)
InfobotDir and InfobotExt
InfobotDir
specifies a directory to search for infobot data
files. Persons who make use of their Unix accounts
may want to make an infobot directory off of their
home and specify (in .soprc
file)
InfobotDir
infobot
People
who don't have any other particular clutter in their
home directories can get by with
InfobotDir
~ which is also the default if no InfobotDir
directive at all appears.
InfobotExt
specifies extensions to use for infobots. The lack
of this directive is equal to InfobotExt
"" .txt
Consider mail coming in for info@yourdomain.com. In
this case, files named simply info will be sought
out in the InfobotDir specified directories. If you
had the line InfobotExt .txt in your .soprc, info
would not be used, but info.txt
would. If you had InfobotExt .txt .html both
info.txt and info.html will be used.
In
the last example, if both info.txt
and info.html were found, both
would be mailed in turn. This could be useful, or
harmful. Look for more control in future versions of
PowerMail.
InfobotExt
may be specified more than once, or multiple
extensions may be given on one line. In the absence
of any InfobotExt line, first no extension is added
to the mail address that comes in, then .txt is
added. In its presence, the mail address without
modification is not tried, unless the null extension
"" is given.
c)
InfobotAccessLog
Keeps
a log of where infobots were sent. The log file must
be world-writable. (It probably also needs to exist
before you start, unless the directory it's going to
be kept in is world-writeable.) For example, at a
shell prompt, touch infobot-access-log
chmod 666 infobot-access-log
Then
put in your .soprc:
InfobotAccessLog infobot-access-log
Format of log file: try it and see.
(Recipient, date, file)
Only
the last instance of this directive has effect.
No user-visible logging is done if this directive is
absent.
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