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5 1999 by Thomas Nesges <ThomaNesges@TNT-Computer.de>
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12 The Installation is as simple as it could be. Just create the directory
13 /usr/local/gotmail and copy all files to it. Ready.
15 If you decide to choose an other directory to copy the files to, don't forget
16 to change the path in the scripts.
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21 GetMail starts with: getmail <option>
24 clear - stops fetchmail and kills the logfile
25 fetch - starts fetchmail
27 goth - starts gotmail html
28 send - sends all mail from the mailqueue
29 status - tails the logfile
30 start - starts fetchmail and tails the logfile
31 stop - stops fetchmail
32 -v - prints GetMails version number
34 GotMail can be startet without any parameters. It then prints a statistic
35 on the console. The only parameters so far are:
37 html - prints the output to an html file specified in gotmail.conf
38 -v - prints GotMails version number
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43 GotMail is configured by a file named gotmail.conf either in the user's home
44 dir, in /etc or in /usr/local/gotmail. gotmail.conf itself is a shell script.
45 It just exports some variables to the environment. So it's syntax is like this:
47 export <OPTION>=<VALUE>
49 Remember not to put spaces between <OPTION>=<VALUE> !!
50 You have the folllowing options:
52 GOTM_ERR yes|no print error messages?
53 GOTM_MSG yes|no print mail stats?
54 GOTM_TIM yes|no print start/stop stats?
55 GOTM_HED yes|no print a header?
58 GOTM_BGCOL hex color backgroundcolor
59 GOTM_TXCOL hex color textcolor
60 GOTM_ERRCOL hex color color of error messages
61 GOTM_TIMCOL hex color color of start/stop stats
62 GOTM_MSGCOL hex color color of mail stats
63 GOTM_HTMLFILE filename filename for html output
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