NAME

       crashmail - A Fidonet *.JAM and MSG tosser

SYNOPSIS

       crashmail  [SETTINGS  filename]  [SCAN]  [TOSS]  [TOSSFILE  filename] [TOSSDIR directory] [SCANAREA area]
       [SCANLIST filename] [RESCAN area RESCANNODE node [RESCANMAX max]] [VERSION] [LOCK] [UNLOCK] [NOSECURITY]

DESCRIPTION

       Welcome to CrashMail II! CrashMail II is basically a more portable version of CrashMail,  my  tosser  for
       Amiga  computers.  Users  of  the  old  Amiga  version will probably find some things familiar while some
       features are gone such as the ARexx port (for obvious reasons!) and the  GUI  configuration  editor.  The
       only feature that CrashMail II has and the old CrashMail hasn't is support for JAM messagebases.

OPTIONS

       SCAN   Scan all areas for messages to export.

       TOSS   Toss all .pkt files and bundles in inbound directory.

       TOSSFILE filename
              Toss the specified file.

       TOSSDIR directory
              Toss all files in the specified directory.

       SCANAREA area
              Scan the specified area.

       SCANLIST filename
              Scan all areas listed in the specified file.

       RESCAN area
       RESCANNODE node
       RESCANMAX max
              Rescans  the  specied  area  for  the specied node. If RESCANMAX is specified, it sets the maximum
              number of messages to rescan.

       SETTINGS filename
              Use this  configuration  file  instead  of  the  default.You  can  use  the  environment  variable
              CMCONFIGFILE to set the default configuration file.

       VERSION
              Show version information about CrashMail.

       LOCK   Locks  CrashMail's  configuration file and then exits. CrashMail has a simple locking mechanism to
              ensure that two instances of CrashMail never use the same configuration file at the same time. You
              can  use  this  if you want to temporarily want to stop CrashMail from running, e.g. when updating
              the nodelist.

       UNLOCK Removes the lock on CrashMail's configuration file. Only use  this  when  the  configuration  file
              previously has been locked with LOCK, otherwise terrible things might happen.

       NOSECURITY
              Process   all  packets  without  security  checks.  This  is  intended  to  be  used  mainly  with
              TOSSDIR/TOSSFILE and with packets created by CrashWrite.

SEE ALSO

       crashexport(1), crashlist(1), crashmaint(1), crashwrite(1), crashgetnode(1), crashstats(1)

FILES

       crashmail.prefs

BUGS

   Win32
       If you want to use an old reader that only can handle 8+3 filenames, you have to use %8 in  the  path  of
       your DEFAULT area if you are using the auto-add feature.  This creates an 8 digit serial number to use as
       the path for the area.  Note that if CrashMail is run twice in a short period of time (a few seconds), it
       might create duplicate paths.  Avoid %8 if it is at all possible.

   Linux
       Don't  use the ~ character in paths. Such paths are expanded to point to your home directory by the shell
       and not by the i/o functions in the system. They will not work in CrashMail.

       In *.msg areas, make sure that all files are named *.msg and  not  *.MSG!   If  they  are  not  named  in
       lowercase, CrashMail will not export them.

       As  an  extra bonus, the Linux version of CrashMail can use the syslog instead of using its own log file.
       Just use "syslog" as the name of your log file.

       If the precompiled binaries in the CrashMail archive don't work on your system, you will have to  compile
       your own. See src/ReadMe.txt for more information about this.

AUTHOR

       CrashMail is written by Johan Billing <billing@df.lth.se>

       This manual page was written by Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>