========================================= WAFTOGT history file: updates, fixes, etc. ========================================= Be sure to pick up E02/761 for the latest news on WAFTOGT and product support. 1.00 - 17 SEP 94 ================ Welcome to the official release of WAFTOGT. Beta testing is officially over, and this release has been called 1.00. 1. New utility program: WTGSETUP. This program will make it easier to configure the program, and setup newsgroups too. You can use it instead of a standard text editor, although that will work too. WTGSETUP can be used with first time installations, as well as with existing installations. 2. Aliasing! Registered users may now alias e-mail to other places. For example, I might want 'rkroll' mail to be expanded to my real name so I see it in MMR. All I would need to do is add the appropriate entry to the alias list, and it will work. Those of you wanting to run e-mail/netmail gateways with WAFTOGT can use this feature for that purpose. You could tell the program to send all mail for 'jblow' to 'Joe Blow' at 123/456. A new field has been added to the config file for this purpose. See the WTGSETUP program for details. 3. Some things related to the import of E-mail have been fixed. Certain systems were having trouble before. BETA 9 - 27 JUN 94 =================== ** IMPORTANT - Use ftp.csn.net for all FTP'ing now! *** Summer is here, and with it comes another release of WAFTOGT. Your suggestions and comments are welcomed, and keep the program fresh and dynamic. Information on e-mail: If you are replying to an e-mail message that was imported by WAFTOGT, you don't have to send it to "UUCP" or put the "To:" line in the top of the message. WAFTOGT will automatically trace back to the original message to determine who to send to. 1. Those funky partial system names in the .X file are now supported. Usually, a system 'lunatix' will put their full sitename in the control lines of the .X file, but sometimes they will only put some of the full name. Beta 9 supports files from these places. 2. The e-mail import procedure has been reworked. Before, it was limited somewhat depending on how much RAM it could grab. It will now import e-mail that is MUCH larger. There is a indicator showing how many bytes it has processed so far while importing. 3. More X.400 funny stuff (why must they be so strange ... ???) Addresses like the following are supported and decoded: From: wu/O=JEFFREY_RACE/DD.ELN=62075697@mhs.attmail.com Those addresses are really ugly IMO. 4. This is only of interest for GT BETA PEOPLE. All others should go on to number 5, since it does not apply. This version adds support for the new "_USER.CTL" when performing bounce checking. Just set the GT= field to 19. 5. REGISTERED USERS: Another bonus from registration - auto adding. WAFTOGT will now, if desired, automatically perform a RESETHI for any newsgroups that do not have pointers defined. This makes it a bit easier to add a whole bunch of newsgroups, since you don't have to RESETHI them all. Just set AA=yes in the config file. 6. WAFTOGT will now create the MESSAGE.CTL and/or the GTMSGS directory when attempting to import news. This makes it even easier to add a new group. You must still create the base GT directory. For example, if I tell WAFTOGT to add a group "alt.barney.die.die.die", and config it like so: alt.barney.die.die.die f:\echo\abddd All I have to do here is make the f:\echo\abddd directory, and WAFTOGT will take care of the GTMSGS directory. Since I'm obviously a registered user, it will also handle the pointer for the Waffle side (see #5 above for info). At this point, all you have to do is edit your GTMDIR.BBS file to make it available to your users. Easy! 7. The feature of letting the .CNF file be in either the current directory or the GTPATH has been changed. It will now only look for the file in the GTPATH or the LANPATH. 8. The unidentified flying date that was landing on all messages being imported has been identified and stomped. One little line of debug code can make a nice little problem to track down later .. 9. A request for a new feature - RESETHI in EXPMAIL. People who renumber their e-mail area periodically also need to keep the pointer of the last exported message in sync as well. Putting RESETHI on the commandline of EXPMAIL will generate the .GTW file. Note - unlike the main WAFTOGT module, you don't need to already have a pointer to run it the first time. EXPMAIL will make one, if needed. 10. Date-related fix - a newsreader that had the month spelled out all the way (June instead of Jun) caused WAFTOGT to fail in an interesting place. WAFTOGT will now truncate month names down to the first 3 letters before checking them. 11. At the request of William Johnson, WAFTOGT will now slightly modify the subject field of messages that have been split. A message with the subject of "A Day to Remember" that gets split into three parts would have these subjects: A Day to Remember A Day to Remember (p2) A Day to Remember (p3) This lets you identify the various parts of the message, and also keeps certain dup checkers from killing off additional pieces of messages. Further details have been eliminated from this file to save on space. BETA 8 - 10 APR 94 BETA 7 - 11 JAN 94 BETA 6 - 03 OCT 93 BETA 5 - 11 SEP 93 BETA 4 - 29 AUG 93 BETA 3 - 18 AUG 93 BETA 2 - 14 AUG 93 BETA 1 - 5 AUG 93 - Initial release.