Using AreaFix / newsfix

WaterGate has a built-in Area Manager to allow your users to easily maintain the areas in which they receive messages.

A Fido user has to send a netmail message to "AreaFix" at one of your system AKAs. A UUCP user has to send a mail message to "newsfix" at one of your system domain addresses. For both, the password has to be in the subject line.

Examples:

[Fido Netmail]
From: Jaap Aap			2:280/802.67
To  : AreaFix			2:280/802
Subj: MyPassword
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+ARENA
-POINTS.028
%QUERY

[UUCP mail]
From: Jaap@TheNode.Network.Nl
To  : NewsFix@HostNode.NetWork.Nl
Subj: MyPassword
--------------------------------------------

+ARENA
-POINTS.028
%QUERY
The following commands are available:
AREANAME
This will connect the area with the name "AREANAME" for the requesting user, if the area exists and the user has access to that area (it has to be in a group to which the user has access). Optionally, you can use +AREANAME.

-AREANAME
This will disconnect the user from the area with the name "AREANAME". A user can always disconnect an area, even if he no longer has access to connect it.

%+ALL
This will connect the user to all the areas to which he has access.

%-ALL
This will disconnect the user from all the areas to which he is connected.

%PASSIVE
This will stop WaterGate from sending messages to this user. This is especially useful when the user goes on a holiday, for example, and doesn't want to have messages pile up. This will not affect netmail or mail messages.

%ACTIVE
If a node is ready to receive messages again, he can issue this command, after which WaterGate will resume preparing mail for this user.

%FROM <addr>
If a user is allowed to do remote maintenance (see User Configuration), then all modifications following the %FROM line, will be made to the user specified in <addr>. Multiple %FROM lines may be used in messages. If anything goes wrong (e.g., a user with <addr> does not exist), all further commands are ignored until the end of the message or another %FROM line.
Note: this option is currently (version 0.92) disabled.

%HELP
The user can issue this command to request help. WaterGate will send a short list of all the commands that the user can use. If the user is allowed to use a special AreaFix command, it will also be shown.

%QUERY
This will send a list of all the areas to which the user is currently connected. The areas will be grouped and sorted, and the list will also indicate whether a group is read-only.

%LIST
WaterGate will create a list of all areas available to the node and send it. The areas will be grouped and sorted, with the descriptions of the areas from the Comment field in the area record.
See the section "The text files" for information about the .TXT files you can use to override the standard help message and the headers and footers of the lists.

You can also use the old style query and list requests: putting -Q or -L after your password, with a space in between.


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Last updated 13 October 1996