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Neda Communications, Inc.
October 1999
FollowMeEmail is based upon three open-source software packages: Fetchmail, by Eric Raymond et al, Procmail by Stephen R. Van der Berg et al., and the EMSD server agent by Neda Communications, Inc.
The NT port of FollowMeEmail would have been much more difficult (if not completely infeasible) without Cygnus Solutions' CygWin package. With CygWin we found it almost trivial to produce running versions of Fetchmail and Procmail on NT.
We're deeply grateful for the existence of all these tools and to all the people who've brought them into being.
For more information on Fetchmail, see the Fetchmail home page http://www.tuxedo.org/esr/fetchmail.
Information on Procmail is available at http://www.procmail.org
CygWin information is at http://www.cygnus.com/cygwin.
More information on EMSD can be found at http://www.emsd.org.
FollowMeEmail is currently supported on Solaris (version 2.5.1 and higher) and on Windows NT 4.0. A Linux port should be easy, since two of the three pieces (fetchmail and procmail) already run on Linux. We haven't done portation and testing yet for the package as a whole on Linux; if you want to do this and send us the results, please do! We'll make them available as part of the standard distribution.
The NT 4.0 port requires the CygWin package, available from Cygnus Solutions at www.cygnus.com/cygwin. We used the beta 20.1 version for development, but there's also now a released supported version available.
FollowMeEmail consists of three pieces:
Fetchmail, for retrieving messages;
Procmail, for filtering and forwarding;
The EMSD server agent: A message transfer agent for sending messages to wireless devices. Sendmail or other LAN-based message transfer agents may also be used with FollowMeEmail.
FollowMeEmail is a collection of mail-related Open Source and Free Software packages which has been bundled in a consistent and cohesive way. FollowMeEmail is about:
The FollowMeEmail system has the ability to watch over all incoming messages from your own desktop. Its continuous monitoring capability is able to track all of your messages, filter them, and manage them in the way you want it. Several advantages of having FollowMeEmail in the system are:
There are two modes of FollowMeEmail:
Figure 3 is the overview of FollowMeEmail. As you can see in Figure 3, you do not need to be at work or in front of your desktop all the time to receive important and urgent email. With FollowMeEmail, all of the important and urgent messages will be forwarded and delivered to your Palm device, pager, cellular phone, fax, etc.
FollowMeEmail is based upon two well-known open-source tools: fetchmail and procmail.
Fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility. Fetchmail allows remote access to a user's mail via any existing Internet mail-retrieval protocol, including any flavor of IMAP or POP. It can then forward the mail to any SMTP- or ESMTP-compliant mail server, or directly to a mail delivery agent like procmail. Some other useful tools of Fetchmail are:
Fetchmail supports every email-related protocol known to humanity and can be run as a background daemon or from the command line. There's also a GUI-based configuration tool available for its text-based command file.
For much more information, see the fetchmail home page at http://www.tuxedo.org/esr/fetchmail.
Procmail is a dazzlyingly flexible mail filtering tool, which can split different mail into different folders (to sort mailing lists, for example), junk spam, run any program on receipt of any kind of mail, etc., etc.
Procmail is an unparalleled suite of email filtering tools, allowing you to do things like:
There is an add-on package to Procmail called SmartList that's our favorite for maintaining email mailing lists.
For more information on Procmail, see the procmail home page at http://www.procmail.org
Both Fetchmail and Procmail were originally developed for Unix. Neither would have been easy (or perhaps even possible!) to port to NT without the help of CygWin, a tool from Cygnus Solutions that's designed to allow one to do just this sort of thing: port open-source Unix software to NT.
Both fetchmail and procmail are a bit complex to configure for the nontechnical user, so we provide a web interface to allow the user to manipulate both tools to accomplish common forwarding and filtering tasks.
Sophisticated users still have access to the raw configuration files and can make fetchmail and procmail sit up and beg should they wish.
More and more people are becoming ``open-source'' believer. The open-source community has proposed the use of open-source development model as one possible way to face many challenges in growing the business in today's fast-moving and competitive industry environment.
Figure 4 shows the architecture of Neda's Open Source Message Center on the server-side. As shown in Figure 4, all of the available components can interface with the adopted software that are available outside of Neda software. For instance, for OUTBOUND Mailers, Hyla FAX or Hyla PAGER software might be used.
Figure 5 shows FollowMeEmail Client Side Software
Figure 1 show the FollowMeEmail Service Model.
The abbreviations that are used in Figure 6
| Category | UID Range | GID Range | Naming Convention | Home Directory | Shell |
| System Acct | 0 - 99 | see Section... | /acct/sys | ksh | |
| Employee | 100 - 4999 | see Section... | /acct/employee | ksh | |
| Contractor | 5000 - 9999 | see Section... | /acct/contractor | ksh | |
| Alumni | 10000 - 14999 | see Section... | /acct/alumni | ksh | |
| Associate | 15000 - 15999 | see Section... | /acct/associate | ksh | |
| Reserved | 16000 - 19999 | ||||
| Subscriber | 20000 - 34999 | see Section... | /acct/subs | ksh | |
| User | 35000 - 49999 | see Section... | /acct/user | ksh | |
| Program Acct | 50000 - 54999 | see Section... | ksh |
| User Name (Alias) | User ID | Group Name | Group ID |
| alias | 50001 | nofiles | 50001 |
| qmaild | 50002 | nofiles | 50001 |
| qmaill | 50003 | nofiles | 50001 |
| qmailp | 50004 | nofiles | 50001 |
| User Name (Alias) | User ID | Group Name | Group ID |
| qmailq | 50005 | qmail | 50002 |
| qmailr | 50006 | qmail | 50002 |
| qmails | 50007 | qmail | 50002 |
Subscriber Group ID is 50004
| User Name (Alias) | User ID | Group Name | Description | |
| Qmail | sa-00001 - sa-00003 | 15001 - 15003 | subscrbr | Reserved |
| sa-00004 | 15004 | subscrbr | Subscriber 1.lastName.firstName | |
| ....... | ||||
| EZMLM | ||||
| EMSD |
| User Name (Alias) | User ID | Group Name | Group ID | Description | |
| Qmail | qvd-0001 | 11001 | virqmdom | 50003 | QmailVirDom freeprotocols.org |
| qvd-0002 | 11002 | virqmdom | 50003 | QmailVirDom byname.net | |
| qvd-0003 | 11003 | virqmdom | 50003 | QmailVirDom byname.com | |
| qvd-0004 | 11004 | virqmdom | 50003 | QmailVirDom bynumber.net | |
| qvd-0005 | 11005 | virqmdom | 50003 | QmailVirDom bynumber.com | |
| qvd-0006 | 11006 | virqmdom | 50003 | QmailVirDom emsd.org | |
| qvd-0007 | 11007 | virqmdom | 50003 | QmailVirDom esro.org | |
| qvd-0008 | 11008 | virqmdom | 50003 | QmailVirDom leapforum.org |
Other related documents:
A variety of software can be easily integrated with Neda's Open Source Message Center. Figure 4 shows some of the available software that can be used with a specific component. For complete detail on any of these adopted software, please refer to ``Solaris Public Software at Neda'' document.
See ``Solaris Public Software at Neda''[2] document for more detail.
This note describes the necessary steps for installation and configuration of MMA on
- Solaris - Linux
The distribution is self reliant and relocatable. It requires the setting of its base directory.
Before anything else in this directory:
source mmaEnvSet.csh
Common facilities used by this distribution are included in mma-lib directory.
Installation and configuration of each of The MMA Parts is described in the sections below:
Starting With qmail-1.03
The Following assumes that:
A- Pre-made binaries for qmail-1.03 exist.
See ./MMA-qmail-prepBins.sh to see how
those binaries are made.
B- The target machine is not running an active sendmail.
Its sendmail system will be removed.
C- The target machine is willing to abide by the
conventions and policies of MMA
1) Remove Sendmail from target system. ./sendmailDefunct.sh 2) Create qmail users and install binaries. ./MMA-qmail-installBins.sh 3) Configure qmail 4) Setup Init Scripts and inetd 5) Restart or Reboot the system 6) Test The Mail System
1) Make sure that you have properly set
the configuration parameters for:
mtaSite
mtaHost
hostFQDN
then,
Run: ./mmaQmailConfigFilesGen.sh
In directory ./mtaSites necessary files will be generated.
2) Make sure that you have properly set
the configuration parameters for:
mtaSite
mtaHost
then,
Run: ./mmaQmailPutInVarQmail.sh
3) The rest of the configuration is mta type specific
3.1) For TLD cluster Edge Deliverers
./mmaQmailVirDomNedaSetup.sh
3.2) For Subscriber Delivery
./mmaQmailBynameSubsAdd.sh
3.3) For submission Clients
3.4) For submission Servers
4) Restart or Reboot the system
5) Test The Mail System
See ``Solaris Public Software at Neda''[2] document for more detail.
See ``Solaris Public Software at Neda''[2] document for more detail.
See ``Solaris Public Software at Neda''[2] document for more detail.
Efficient Mail Submission & Delivery (EMSD) is an Internet messaging protocol that is highly optimized for short messages. EMSD is an extension of the existing Internet email environment which accommodates two-way paging model of usage. Using EMSD, urgent messages are promptly "pushed" to the recipient in a highly efficient manner.
The EMSD specifications are totally open and have been published as the Internet RFC-2188 [4] and RFC-2524 [1].
EMSD is designed with the wireless network specifically in mind. It minimizes the network traffic required to send and receive messages, and this produces a messaging protocol that meets the needs of the mobile communicator. Fewer packets means extended battery life, efficient use of carrier bandwidth, and support for marginal coverage areas. EMSD is the only OPEN messaging protocol that exists today as a viable option for the wireless future.
Neda's Subscriber Profile provides a subscriber services....
VoRDE is Neda's Voice Response Development Environment. It provides a convenient environment for developing and managing voice response applications.
Figure 5 shows FollowMeEmail Client Side Software.
Just use the standard GNU technique:
./configure
make
make install
You can provide options to 'configure' to keep it from putting everything in /usr/local if you use another scheme for locally-installed software:
./configure --prefix=/opt/public
make
make install
For a complete list of options to the configure utility, use
./configure --help
Cygwin isn't officially recognized by the version of the GNU Autoconf tool used with the version of Fetchmail we're working with. But with a couple of tweaks, it still works fine:
(1) Copy 'rm.exe' and 'sh.exe' from the Cygnus distribution to the directory '/bin'. You can also tweak the script that are looking for /bin/sh and /bin/rm to use whatever the nasty Cygwin directory is on your system, but we like a tiny little fake /bin better.
(2) Run
./configure --host=Cygwin
Cygwin won't be recognized, but Autoconf still does its job and produces a usable Makefile and config.h file.
(3) Edit the Makefile and add '-DCYGWIN' to the CFLAGS variable.
After you're done it should look like
CFLAGS = -O -DCYGWIN
(4) Just run
make
If you get errors complaining about 'bison.simple', edit the Makefile again and give Bison the '-S' flag with the full pathname where bison.simple is found (i.e. /share beneath the Cygwin hierarchy).
(5) Copy fetchmail to wherever you'd like to keep it.
'make install' doesn't make much sense on NT, at least not yet.
Procmail does some funny things with its makefiles and thus wasn't as easy to make into a single source tree, so we provide separate versions for Solaris and NT.
It's easy:
make
make install
and optionally
su
make install-suid
Also easy. The Procmail script does funny things with 'make', so we provide a script on top of it. Just run
build
and things should turn out right.
We haven't attempted to test all of Procmail's famously robust file-delivery code on NT, since we need only its filtering capabilities. But the filtering properties seem to work just fine, so we'd encourage anyone interested in a full NT Procmail port to jump right on it!
For more detail on FollowMeEmail subscriber services, refer to Neda
Subscriber Services
(http://www.byname.net).
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EZMLM is a modern mailing list manager. Its purpose is to efficiently send a message to a large number of recipients with minimal delay. It allows automayed additions and subtractions from the subscribers database.
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