First Time Installation ----------------------- Please use the appropriate installation icon in the `Install' drawer. It uses Commodore's Installer utility and will copy all the files in the appropriate directories, it will also add some assignments to your User-Startup if you allow it. Since v1.1 the installation of Mail Manager is much easier, if MM_Prefs ( the configuration editor for Mail Manager ) doesn't find a configuration file, it is able to create a default point configuration. Just run it ( the installation script should do this for you ) and by asking you for a little information it will create a default configuration with which you should be immediatelly able to run Mail Manager as a 'standard' point. As soon as you'll be more acquainted with Mail Manager configurations parameters you'll be able to customize your configuration as you need. Upgrading from Mail Manager v1.1 -------------------------------- There are many changes in v1.2, have a look on the History file. In order to upgrade your installation, rename your old "MM" directory ( for example as "MM_Old" ) and copy the new "MM" directory in the same place of the old one. Then copy all your 'customized' files ( MM keyfile, configuration files, modified Arexx scripts ) from the old directory to the new one. There are also some configuration changes. All the new parameters should already have proper default values. Upgrading from Mail Manager v1.0 -------------------------------- There are many changes in v1.1 and v1.2, have a look on the History file. In order to upgrade your installation, rename your old "MM" directory ( for example as "MM_Old" ) and copy the new "MM" directory in the same place of the old one. Then copy all your 'customized' files ( MM keyfile, configuration files, modified Arexx scripts ) from the old directory to the new one. There are also some configuration changes. All the new parameters should already have proper default values, but since v1.1 I've also completelly changed the meaning of the "DeleteBy Date" line of the Areas parameters: now if you configure 'DeleteBy Date ', during a Delete operation Mail Manager will delete all the messages older than DAYS. Please note that this is different from v1.0. Mail Manager v1.0 would keep the last MESSAGES sorted by date. If upgrading to v1.2, you will need to change this value down to the number of DAYS which is obviously a much smaller number. In other words a line like "DeleteBy Date 100" in v1.0 meant: 'sort the messages by date then keep the last 100 messages'; while since v1.1 it means: 'keep all the messages not older than 100 days'! Please note also that Mail Manager will start to store the import date of a message only since when you will install the v1.2. All the messages already present in your message base will receive a 'default' import date equal to the first time you have runned Mail Manager v1.2, so if you, for example, have specified "DeleteBy Date 7" for an area, you have to wait at least 7 days from the date of installation before Mail Manager will start to delete messages in that area. I've also changed the format of the message bases, Mail Manager v1.2 should automatically upgrade your message base the first time you run it. Please note that this will take a while, DON'T WORRY !!! Upgrading from Point Manager, Foozle or other *.MSG compatible programs ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail Manager is able to read standard *.MSG message bases, so you can easily keep your old message base. All you have to do is to follow the same steps described for the First Time Installation, then, when you are inside MM_Prefs, configure the same areas you had configured in your old program. Obviously the area paths must be the same and the message base type must be set to 'Indexed'. Save the configuration, run Mail Manager and, without selecting any area, click on the 'Scan' button. Mail Manager will perform a global scan ( it will take a while ) and should recognise all your old messages, then, again with no area selected, click on the 'Free' button and Mail Manager will write on disk the indexes of the areas. Now if you want modify the *.MSG message base to a better one ( Quick or Compressed ) you can do this by selecting all the areas you want to modify and selecting the 'Convert MsgBase' entry from the 'Miscellaneous' menu. Be careful, if you are upgrading from Foozle remember that only the CM-Style messagebase of Foozle is fully compatible with the Plain and Indexed messagebases of Mail Manager. Upgrading from April, Spot or other programs with custom message bases ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail Manager is not able to directly read such custom message bases. Follow the same steps described for the First Time Installation and complete the full Mail Manager installation. Now, if you really want to keep your old messages you have to perform the following steps: modify the configuration of your old program, you have to swap your address and the address of your boss, for example suppose that your address is "2:335/602.2@fidonet" and that your Boss address is "2:335/602.0@fidonet" you have to configure "2:335/602.0@fidonet" as YOUR address and "2:335/602.2@fidonet" as BOSS address. Now Export all the messages you want to keep ( you have probably to remove the 'SENT' flag from the messages ), your program will create a ( probably big ) bundle, copy this bundle in the configured Inbound dir, run Mail Manager and click on the Import button. If you have properly configured everything Mail Manager should import all the messages in the right areas.