POPDLAGT readme
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1. Copyright

Popdlagt is copyright Ian G. Gosling 1997. All rights reserved.


2. Licence

This program is freeware. You are hereby granted a non-exclusive licence
to use popdlagt.exe. You may distribute the program freely, but you may 
not modify the code, nor omit any files from the original distribution.
You may nor assign or sublicence the licence, not make any 
charge for the use of the program. This licence is granted "as is". By your
use of the program you indicate that you understand and accept that 
there is no warranty express or implied. The author does not warrant that 
the program will work as indicated or without flaw, nor that it is fit for
any particular purpose. The user uses the program at his own risk. The 
author will not be liable for damages caused directly by or consequential 
to the use of the program, even if you have been advised of the possibility
of such damages.


3. Overview

This is an alternative for the delivery agent, popsmail.exe, version 0.10, 
supplied as part of the public distribution of the POP3 mail server 
os2pops. Compiled from C language source, it overcomes problems of zero 
length and infinite length files reported by some users.

This program has been run successfully on OS/2 Warp versions 3 and 4. 
I haven't tested it on version 2.11, but you are free to try it and see.

4. Installation and usage

4.1 If you don't already have os2pops, download and install it first. It is 
obtainable from

ftp://ftp.raleigh.ibm.com/pub/products/os2pops

Follow the installation instructions which come with it. Remember when
editing your sendmail.cf, do not use an editor which substitutes spaces for
tabs, otherwise your sendmail will not work. This rules out tedit and epm. 
The OS/2 system editor, e.exe, is safe to use for this purpose.

4.2 Now copy popdlagt.exe to the os2pops root directory, i.e. the same 
directory where os2pops.exe and popsmail.exe are.

4.3 Edit your sendmail.cf as you did when installing os2pops. Just 
substitute "popdlagt" for "popsmail" in the "Mlocal" line (without the
quotes. You should end up with something like this:

Mlocal, P=d:\os2pops\popdlagt.exe, F=lsDFP, S=10, R=20, A=d:\os2pops $u $f

The path name will vary depending on where you installed os2pops.

4.4 Now kill off sendmail.exe if it is running, and restart it. (If it is 
running as a detached process, and you don't have a process killer 
program, you can reboot your system to the same effect.)

4.5 That's all! Send some test emails to your os2pops account and see if
they arrive. Hopefully you will be happy.


5. Support

This program is provided without support of any kind. Much as I would like
to help you all out, I am much too busy with my day job. I don't guarantee
to reply to emails. For problems with installing os2pops, see the os2pops
home page and discussion list at

http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/misc/os2pops.

If you can install os2pops successfully (it is not that hard), you should 
already know more than enough to install this one successfully too.

If you find a bug and can pinpoint the exact cause, let me know at
egosling@ntu.edu.sg and it may get fixed if I have some spare time.