The Shelter Family is a set of powerful and easily configurable WPL-based Mailers. Each has a subset of the features of the powerful Roof Mailer. The Roof Mailer itself is not distributed separately as it is an intregal part of the HUGE Roof System and requires the ROOFLOG and FLOWMGR function hosts for proper operation. Three independant mailers are available in the Shelter Family of Mailers: Umbrella, Gazebo and Porticus. Each can be configured and compiled with the included GenMailer program. The Uncommon Features of Shelter Mailers ---------------------------------------- All Shelter Mailers feature a GUI status window, scrolling log and progress windows as well as an XPR progress window. In addition, individual windows display the progress of each poll. All these windows, except for the GUI, may enabled or disabled during mailer generation. All Shelter Mailers feature SeaLink (inbound), DietIFNA, ZedZap, ZedZip and DirectZap protocols with crash-resistant RESUME and support for both 2d and 4d outgoing file requests. XPR protocols are used thoughout. Shelter mailers provide a high level of security, both when dealing with other mailers and with human callers. Unlike other mailers, when a Shelter Mailer is properly configured, if is very unlikely that files can be stolen, or your HD formatted. Multiple AFTERSESSION and WHENRECD commands allow automatic req, mail and tic processing. Unlike any other mailer, Shelter Mailers provide separate commands per file type to be executed either when a file of a certain type is received/sent or after the session or BOTH. The Cache also allows Site-specific AFTERSESSION commands to override the GLOBAL ones. Example aftersession command scripts include utilties to set the filenote of a received file from the description comment in the sent REQ file, or from the short description in an AmiNet .README file. All Shelter Mailers are multi-FTN and feature both EMSI and AUTOAKA WAZOO. AutoAKA causes the mailer's primary address to be set depending upon the address of the site being called or who is calling. The domain is automatically set if the remote site does not provide it. When USEAKAS is set for FTN site, all files for all AKAs configured for the site will be sent in the same session bothuder WAZOO and EMSI. All Shelter Mailers feature a Site Cache, which allows setting a remote site's session password, sitename, sysopname, phone number, alternate phone number. The remote site may be an FTN node, a UUCP site, an Atomic Clock site or a BBS, FTP or Online Service ( in which case the configured term program will be spawned upon connect). Other parameters specific to the type of site may also be set. If your tosser is not domain-aware and the site sends archives containing bundles for multiple FTNs, the site may be configured so that these bundles will be sorted by domain for tossing. One may also configure a particular site so that all mail is sent to configured AKAs of a site either on inbound, outbound or both. On can also set handshake (FTS1,WAZOO,EMSI) to use when calling and what addresses to present under EMSI when dialing a site. The Cache allows Site-specific AFTERSESSION commands to override the GLOBAL ones. In addition to the Site Cache, the Gazebo and Porticus Mailers also support either nodelist.library or traplist.library for FTN sessions and Passwd and L.sys for uucp sessions. The Shelter Mailer Manager program allows Cache and Manual dialing as well as an AUTO feature which allows auto-startup and poll of one's BOSS or echo hub. With Manual dialing, one just specifies site and phone number and/or line to use. Also included is a POLL feature which will asyncronously poll all sites with pending mail. POLLs will continue until a connection is made, with the number of seconds between dial attempts and the duration of a poll window both being configurable. Remote addresses can be simply specified, with address expansion being done based upon your AKA in the domain being called. For example, if one wanted to call fidonet#1:167/104.0, and one's own address is fidonet#1:167/151.0, one would simply do: Shelter CALL 104 Individual windows for each poll in progress keeps one abreast of the current status. A poll can be aborted via a Shelter command, or a Ctl-C in the poll's window. Parameters such as duration of poll attempt, redial and busy delays are settable on the fly. Shelter mailers do not use the obsolete and non-secure FLO file format, but rather the very secure Xferq.library outbound management. However, all Shelter Mailers do provide functions to convert 4D .FLO files to 5D XferQ queues and to add any type of file to a site queue. In addition, a comprehensive set of Queue management tools are available as XPack.LHA. Shelter Mailers also provide for multiple inbound directories for Tossers which are not domain aware, as well as a NONSECURE inbound for sites not in Site Cache or nodelist. A separate inbound is provided for HUMAN callers with Porticus. Umbrella Point Mailer (MAGIC NAME: UMBRELLA) -------------------------------------------- The Umbrella Point Mailer is a single line, multi-FTN mailer. It can be setup to answer the phone, BBS spawning is not supported however. If set to noanswer, the answer code is not generated. This mailer does not require a nodelist, as it features both the Site Cache and manual dialing. It does not support UUCP, CLOCK, FAX or BBS dialing, nor spawning of file request handlers or BBSs. Gazebo - The Standard Node Mailer (MAGIC NAME: GAZEBO) ------------------------------------------------------ In addition to the standard Shelter FTN features, Gazebo allows single BBS spawning, UUCP inbound and outbound calls and setting the system clock via calls to any Atomic Clock Site with XPRclock.library. It also features XfreqSH, which allows the use of ANY File Request Handler. Porticus - Full Service Node (MAGIC NAME: PORTICUS) --------------------------------------------------- Porticus has all the features of the Umbrella and Gazebo Mailers, as well as all the non-ROOF System dependant features of the ROOF Mailer. Porticus uses the RFS File Request Handler (included) which provides file requests, both standard and HRF format update requests, response handling and accounts for both mailers and human callers. In addition to the extensive mailer capabilities described above, Porticus has a full-featured remote user interface for Human callers. This interface provides: System Bulletins Multiple level Menus Multiple BBS selections Remote on-line help Remote CLI Doors Text Information displays Auto-Download of Magic Names Auto-Uploads with file description prompt Chat with sysop Messages to/from sysop File Requests with CallBack Verification (with reward) Forwarded file requests (to/from OTHER systems) Amiga Empire Game support User Accounts Boot a human caller All these utilities are included in the PORTICUS distribution. XPACK Outbound Management (MAGIC NAME: XPACK) ---------------------------------------------- A collection of useful tools for XfreQ management by Robert Williamson. Xpack - 5D echomail archiver/router/queuer/scheduler XList - lists queue for a site or all sites Xrmv - remove a file from a site queue Addwork - add a file to a site queue, aware of filetypes Xq - FLO convert, scan outs, Xpack front-end Any of the above can be FREQed using the Magic names from: 14400bps: fidonet#1:167/104.0 amiganet#40:600/105.0 mtlnet#17:514/300.0 cjnet#100:100/225.0 Zyxel: fidonet#1:167/151.0 amiganet#40:600/151.0