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PROGRAM:

NAME

jamnntpd - An NNTP server that allows newsreaders to access a JAM messagebase.

SYNOPSIS

jamnntpd [options]

DESCRIPTION

JamNNTPd is an attempt to merge FTN/Fidonet technology with standard Usenet newsreaders.
Basically, it is an NNTP server that allows newsreaders to access a JAM messagebase.

The behaviour of JamNNTPd can be configured using the configuration options specified
below. These can be given to JamNNTPd in two ways:

1) As commandline arguments

2) In a configuration file (see -config command). The preceding dash (-) is optional when
an option is given in a file, it will be added if missing. A configuration file with the
default settings can be created with the -create option.

If JamNNTPd is run without any commandline arguments at all, it will attempt to read
options from a file called "jamnntpd.config" if present. Under Linux, JamNNTPd will look
for this file in the "/etc" directory and under Windows in the current directory.

It is not necessary to specify any configuration options at all unless when fine-tuning
JamNNTPd, the default have been designed to be sensible.

OPTIONS

General options:

-port <port> or -p <port>
Set the port where JamNNTPd listens for connections. The default is 5000.

-max <maxconn> or -m <maxconn>
The maximum allowed number of connections at one time. The default is 5.

-groups <groupsfile> or -g <groupsfile>
-allow <allowfile> or -a <allowfile> -users <usersfile> or -u <usersfile> -xlat
<xlatfile> or -x <xlatfile> Use those to override the default locations of the
config files.

-logfile <logfile> or -l <logfile>
Use this to override the default location of the log file.

-noecholog
Disables echoing of log messages to the console window.

-debug If this option is used, JamNNTPd will print all sent and received text to the
console window. Useful for testing

Options for displaying messages:

-readorigin
Get address from the Origin line instead of the OADDRESS field of the JAM message
header. This option makes JamNNTPd slower, but may be useful if your tosser does
not set the OADDRESS field.

-noencode
JamNNTPd by default MIME-encodes headers with non-ascii characters. If you use this
option, JamNNTPd will instead send the headers as plain 8-bit text.

-strictnetmail
Makes JamNNTPd use strict article counters for netmail messages. Normally JamNNTPd
uses article counters that include all messages, not only those that the user is
allowed to read. That behaviour is much faster, but may cause your newsreader to
indicate the presence of new messages in the netmail area even when there are only
messages for other users. Using this option will make JamNNTPd slower, but speed
seems to be acceptable for small netmail areas with up to 1000 messages. Users will
never be allowed to actually read netmail messages of other users even when this
option is not used.

-def_flowed onoff
-def_showto onoff Sets the default of the flowed and showto settings (if no default
is specified on the commandline, both will be on by default)

flowed: If flowed is on, JamNNTPd will use format=flowed (section 6.5), otherwise
it will wrap long lines to a fixed width.

showto: Since there is no receiver for news messages, JamNNTPd can display the
receiver name as a part of the sender name. With this option, this behaviour can be
turned on or off.

These can be modified by the user by logging in with parameters (section 4.4)

Options for posting messages:

-nostripre
JamNNTPd normally strips "Re:" from subject lines of followups. Use this option if
you want to retain the "Re:".

-notearline
JamNNTPd normally puts the information from the X-Newsreader or User-Agent header
field in the tearline of posted messages. This option disables this behaviour and
leaves the tearline blank.

-noreplyaddr
JamNNTPd normally adds a REPLYADDR kludge with the e-mail address of the sender in
posted messages. Use this option if you don't want REPLYADDR kludges. See also see
section 6.4 in ReadMe.txt.

-notzutc
JamNNTPd normally writes the timezone into a TZUTC kludge when a message is posted.
You can use this option if you don't want to create TZUTC kludges.

-nocancel
Disallows the cancelling (deleting) of messages by the users. If allowed, users can
only cancel messages from one of their "realnames" and only if the message has not
yet been sent.

-smartquote
The quoting style of most newsreaders is different from traditional fidonet
software. If you enable this option, JamNNTPd will try to change any quoted lines
to fidonet style. This means that it will try to insert the initials of the person
you reply to before the '>' character and also that it will try to compound
multiple generations of quotes, i.e. "AA> BB>" will be changed into "BB>>".

Reformatting quotes in this way means that the user who posts a message will no
longer have final say over the final content of the message since it will be
changed after he or she sends it to JamNNTPd. Since this in principle is a bad
thing even if quoted text will look a lot better after reformatting, this option is
turned off by default.

-origin <origin>
Normally JamNNTPd uses the text found in the Organization header line as the Origin
line text in posted messages. You can use this switch to override the Organization
line and set your own origin for all posted messages.

-guestsuffix <suffix>
If desired, JamNNTPd can add a suffix to posts from unauthenticated users. To
activate that feature, specify the suffix here.

Example: -guestsuffix " [GUEST]".

-echomailjam <echomail.jam>
If you specify a filename here, JamNNTPd will write a line to this file with the
messagebase and message number for each message that is posted. The file follows
the ECHOMAIL.JAM format supported by some tossers.

Options for configuration files:

-config <configfile>
Read options from the specified configuration file.

-create <configfile>
Create a configuration file with the default settings.

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