> Hi, I'm new to the list.
>
> I'm running yarn0.92 and souper for news (and mail) with a
> current version of EMX (0.9d ??) on OS/2. I'm thinking of using Yarn to
> handle my e-mail in addition to news groups. Two questions for those who
> might know:
>
> 1. How reliable and stable have the beta versions of vsoup
> (1.2.9.48) been? I understand that the current version of EMX
> broke version 1.2.8.
I don't use EMX but have had success with 1.2.8. I only use it for news
collection though (i.e) no posting.
>
> 2. How can I specify the SMTP server for sending e-mails with
> Souper? I'd like to be able to use a different server than what
> is specified in my DOIP settings. Is there an environment
> setting, config or commandline option to specify this?
No - command line:
souper -s -h f:\souper mail.btinternet.com hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk password
-s instructs the souper to open up replies to send the packet. news
server variable must be set correctly as it will be done automatically.
-h f:\souper - home dir of souper.
mtp.server.name username password - obvious, but I am not sure whether
username/password are required for this line - I seem to recall that you
can miss them out - but I put them in anyway.
To collect mail (from the same mailhost or in my case a different
mailhost) + news:
souper -a -h f:\souper pop.freeserve.net hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk password
the -a instructs the client to get new groups
the rest should be self-explanatory.
Of course you could combine the two together (vsoup/souper) like I do on
my older Windoze machine to post messages using souper and receive with
vsoup since it handles multiple threads. Note that all the servers are
127.0.0.1 as they are Windows servers (the program mailtraq). I do
similar on this OS/2 machine, however, I tend to write automated scripts
to make the packets on the windows machine and then import from the
network drive onto this machine.
Anyway here is the batch file (no mail). - comments in REM
@ECHO OFF
set nntpserver=127.0.0.1
REM REQUIRED TO POST MESSAGES THROUGH SOUPER
cd F:\souper
if exist F:\yarn\andrew\reply.zip pkunzip -o F:\yarn\andrew\reply.zip >NUL
REM EXPAND THE SOUP PACKET -O OVERWRITES WITHOUT PROMPTS
if exist c:\yarn\andrew\reply.zip souper -s -h c:\souper 127.0.0.1 andrew PASSWORD
REM STARTS MAIL/NEWS UPLOAD TO MAILTRAQ
if not exist replies del c:\yarn\andrew\reply.zip
REM IF EVERYTHING WENT OK, THE REPLIES SHOULD BE GONE, BUT IF NOT, THEN
REM DON'T DELETE THE PACKET AS IT WILL BE USED IN YARN LATER TO FIND OUT
REM WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS
REM NOTE THAT ALL USERNAME/PASSWORDS ARE LOCAL TO MY SERVER
vsoup.exe -h . -Z -n -C 50 -a NNTP://andrew:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:119
REM GETS NEWS WITH THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS
REM - OPENS 4 THREADS TO THE SERVER (DEFAULT) INSTEAD OF ONE (SOUPER)
REM - GETS NEWS ONLY -Z -n
REM - IF A NEW GROUP IS ADDED TO THE NEWSRC FILE AND I SUBSCRIBE,
REM CATCH-UP NUMBER IS SET TO 50 RATHER THAN WHOLE GROUP
REM (NOT THAT IT MATTERS ON A LOCAL SERVER)
REM - GETS NEW GROUPS FROM SERVER.
cls
import -u
expirex -o -q
REM AUTOMATES COMMON TASKS.
Hope this was of some help.
--
³ Andrew Hodgson ³ mailto:andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk ³
³ Public PGP key ³ mailto:pgp-key@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk ³
³ Don't mail news ³ People who mail news will be filtered ³
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