Weasel

QMAIL.CMD Purpose: Place outgoing mail in Weasel's "forward" directory Author: Peter Moylan Updated by: Steven Levine Last updated: 1 December 2022 OVERVIEW Weasel uses a mail directory called "forward" to hold mail that is waiting to be sent out, and there is a way using event semaphores to tell Weasel to re-check this directory. This means that you can manually send mail out by placing it in this directory. It also gives a way for third-party software to hand mail over to Weasel for delivery. For this to work, the mail file must have the same format as Weasel uses for its own *.FWD files. The purpose of QMAIL.CMD is to translate the message into that format, and then copy it into the right directory. PREREQUISITES 1. You must have RXU.DLL somewhere in your LIBPATH. (Which could be in the Weasel directory, because most people have a '.' in their LIBPATH; but it is probably better to put it where you keep other DLL files.) If you don't already have this DLL installed, it is available from Hobbes with the name rxu1a.zip. 2. Scripts called SELECTTNI.CMD and INI_VAL.CMD are also needed, either in the Weasel directory or somewhere in your PATH. To get these, look for a file GenINI.zip in the same place you found qmail.zip. INSTALLATION There is no special installation requirement. You can put QMAIL.CMD anywhere in your file system, subject to just one restriction: it expects to find WEASEL.INI or WEASEL.TNI in the directory that you execute it from. The easiest way to ensure this is to put the command file into the Weasel main directory. The file SayTZ.exe, which is included in this zip file, must be put either in the working directory (usually the Weasel main directory) or somewhere in your PATH. USAGE The message to be sent must be a file in the standard e-mail format: header lines, a single blank line, and then the message body. If you start QMAIL with no parameters, it takes its input from standard input. This means that you can manually send a message by typing it in on the spot: qmail From: me@this.place To: myfriend@another.place Subject: Test message This is a test message ^Z (The control/Z character is the way to force an end-of-file condition from the keyboard.) The header should contain at least a "From:" and a "To:" line. To be consistent with the SMTP standard a few other headers are compulsory, but most mail software is fairly lenient on this point. Third-party software would normally do the job by piping the message into standard input, by a method such as qmail <message.tmp or perhaps otherprogram | qmail You can also use the form qmail filename to send the contents of "filename" as a mail message. You may also, if you wish, specify the "from" and/or "to" e-mail addresses as parameters. The full form is qmail -f fromaddress -t toaddress filename (The parameters can be given in any order.) If the -f and -t parameters are included, qmail will also insert "From:" and/or "To:" lines into the message header if they are missing. It will also add a "Date:" line if that is missing.