-
- Description of "netconfigs" records
- These files contain a set of network configurations for a room. They are
+Description of "netconfigs" records
+
+These files contain a set of network configurations for a room. They are
stored in the directory $CTDLDIR/netconfigs and are named according to each
room's internal ID number. When a room is deleted, its network configuration
file is deleted as well.
-
- The configuration file contains one or more lines of text, each line
+
+The configuration file contains one or more lines of text, each line
containing a configuration option. These lines may specify message pointers,
room sharing instructions, mailing list recipients, etc. Fields are separated
by the vertical bar character ("|") and there will always be at least one
field on each line.
-
-
- INSTRUCTION: lastsent
- SYNTAX: lastsent|0000000
- DESCRIPTION:
- Defines the *local* message number of the last message in this room which
+
+
+INSTRUCTION: lastsent
+SYNTAX: lastsent|0000000
+DESCRIPTION:
+Defines the *local* message number of the last message in this room which
we have performed outbound network processing on. Any batch job which sends
out messages should do stuff.
- INSTRUCTION: listrecp
- SYNTAX: listrecp|friko@mumjiboolean.com
- DESCRIPTION:
- Defines a recipient to whom all messages in this room should be sent. This
+INSTRUCTION: listrecp
+SYNTAX: listrecp|friko@mumjiboolean.com
+DESCRIPTION:
+Defines a recipient to whom all messages in this room should be sent. This
is used for "list serve" applications.
- INSTRUCTION: digestrecp
- SYNTAX: digestrecp|friko@mumjiboolean.com
- DESCRIPTION:
- Defines a recipient to whom all messages in this room should be sent. This
-is used for "list serve" applications. The difference between listrecps and
-digestrecps is that the latter will have messages embedded inside a message
-sent by the listserver. The message will appear to be sent by the room's
-e-mail address instead of the sender's e-mail address.
-
-
- INSTRUCTION: subpending
- SYNTAX: subpending|friko@mumjiboolean.com|listrecp|A234Z|1234567890|http://foo.com/lists
- "Subscription pending" for the specified address. This means that
-someone has requested to subscribe an e-mail address (in this case,
-friko@mumjiboolean.com) to the list. The third parameter is either "list"
-or "digest" to specify a normal subscription or a digest subscription.
-The fourth parameter is an authentication token which is generated by the server
-and e-mailed to the specified address. When the user comes back and supplies
-this token, the subscription is complete. The fifth parameter is a simple
-timestamp, so that we may purge old records which were never confirmed.
-
- The sixth field is the URL of the web page used to enter the subscription
-request, minus any parameters.
-
-
- INSTRUCTION: unsubpending
- SYNTAX: unsubpending|friko@mumjiboolean.com|A234Z|1234567890|http://foo.com/lists
- Similar to the 'subpending' command, except this one is for unsubscribe
-requests. The same rules apply with regard to the token and the web page.
+INSTRUCTION: digestrecp
+SYNTAX: digestrecp|friko@mumjiboolean.com
+DESCRIPTION:
+As of 2021, this is now an alias for listrecp and may be converted to listrecp
+by the mailing list manager.
- INSTRUCTION: participate
- SYNTAX: participate|list-addr@example.com
- This allows a room to be a *subscriber* to an external mailing list
+INSTRUCTION: participate
+SYNTAX: participate|list-addr@example.com
+This allows a room to be a *subscriber* to an external mailing list
somewhere. The room's email address should be subscribed to the list, and the
external listserv should be told "do not send me my own messages." Any
messages which originated on Citadel (as opposed to messages which arrived via
name of the author kept intact, but the email address changed to the address of
the room.
- This is somewhat finicky, which is why it is not officially supported, and
+This is somewhat finicky, which is why it is not officially supported, and
why there are no facilities in the user interface to configure it. If you want
to use this option you are on your own.
- INSTRUCTION: pop3client
- SYNTAX: pop3client|hostname|username|password|keep|interval
- Periodically fetch messages from a remote POP3 account and store them in this
+INSTRUCTION: pop3client
+SYNTAX: pop3client|hostname|username|password|keep|interval
+Periodically fetch messages from a remote POP3 account and store them in this
room. Messages will be deleted from the remote account once successfully stored.
if Keep is set, messages won't be erased on the remote host.
Interval can specify a bigger value than the system configs value.
+
+
+INSTRUCTION: rssclient
+SYNTAX: rssclient|url
+Periodically scrape an external RSS or Atom feed and store new items in this
+room. We try to positively identify unique messages and avoid storing them
+multiple times.