New Patch available

Dear 
This is to announce the availability of a new patch for www4mail.
patch 208c. Most of the new features are administrative in nature. I mean
they are aimed at helping the site administrator..
Available at :
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~www4mail/getsrc.html

This patch provides the following:

1. Cleaner , Object oriented code internally..

2. Spooling system
www4mail now implements it's own spool system.
	- Each incoming message is processed.
	if the system LA is high or memory is low,
	request to run lynx are spooled. to be handled when the
	system LA is lower.

	- Timeouts are as followings, if www4mail is unable
	to access a site in 200 seconds, it timeouts the job.
	if the job has spent over 4 hours in the queue, 
	it is timeout.

3. Better Memory management
	www4mail can now run in background, which means, it 
	frees up the sendmail parent process. Less memory is used.

4. Unix Signal handling
	sending a running www4mail process
	USR1 will cause it to leave a log file in the /tmp
	directory (/tmp/$$.log for each process.)
	USR2 will stop the logging action.
	www4mail automatically does the loging but each 
	successfull run will remove the log file.
	HUP - This will can it to reload the Configuration file.

5. Sending a mail to the server with the words help info or help server
	will sending back a page with information about the system limits,
	supported commands and co..
	If the requesting user is the ServerAdmin then a dump of all
	configuration variables is also performed.
	This is useful for checking on configuration changes..


6. A command for return the HTTP Head information of URLs (User request)
   A command for disabling the statistics page (request from a 
  blind user). A command for disabling the zipping of large text
  documents.

7. Bug fixes and enhancements: Quite a few, as many as I got reports for..

8. patches for Lynx2-8-1 and lynx2-8-2 to enable cookie support for
www4mail.

9. lockfiles: Yes it has to use lockfiles a lot...

Okay

I suggest that you try it out for your self..

Clement Onime..

Received on Monday, 21 June 1999 10:26:15 UTC