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PROGRAM:

NAME


package - register package user via mailagent

SYNOPSIS


package address system version patchlevel [ mailpatches | notifypatches ]

DESCRIPTION


This command is not intended to be run directly by a user, but may appear in any mail
whose subject is set to Command. Such mail will be processed by the mailagent(1), which
will extract all lines beginning with @SH, which may specify this command. The mailagent
first sets environment variables that will be used by the command.

Package is used to notify the author of a package about its users. It is normally
generated automatically by the MailAuthor.U unit when the user runs Configure.

If the patchlevel specified is not the latest for that system and version, mail is
immediately sent suggesting that they upgrade and remindng them how to request the latest
patches.

The final parameter, if included may be set to mailpatches to specify that the user would
like to have future patches mailed to them, or notifypatches to specify that a mail
notification of future patches should be sent, rather than the entire patch.

The user's address and notification request are saved in the file users in the package's
directory.

Package performs an approximate address match in order to avoid duplicate entries.
Whenever this elimination occurs, a warning message is issued in the logfile. Two
addresses will be said equivalent if one of them has an added machine name or if they are
really equal. Therefore, the following addresses are equivalent:

ram@acri.fr
ram@main.acri.fr

whereas the following two are not equivalent, unfortunately:

ram@acri.acri.fr
ram@main.acri.fr

When a user is asking to be left alone, it is important to let him know if the request
failed, because he will be annoyed when the next set of patches is issued and he still
gets them despite his previous request. Therefore, if no approximate match occurs, a
warning message is sent back, with a list of addresses that are close to his own e-mail
address, but not equivalent. Fortunately, the following addresses are considered close:

ram@acri.fr
ram@somewhere.com
raphael@main.acri.fr
manfredi@acri.acri.fr

because they either have the same login (important when someone changes company) or share
the same domain or sub-domain part.

In order to edit the users file, the edusers script should be used. For one thing, it will
let you edit the users file from whatever package you name in the command line, but it
will also properly lock the file so that the execution of package will stall for the
duration of the manual edition (provided you have a strict locking policy defined in your
~/.mailagent configuration file).

FORWARDING


Package supports command forwarding as described in the mailhelp(1) page.

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