GrabMail - Another Silly Arexx Script by Larry Cloud M3001

This one does something cool for anyone who feeds mail and/or files to
someone else.  It allows them to grab their mail/files at logon.  Why
create something like this, when they can poll just as easy?  Well, its
nice to be able to grab stuff when your system is down, or if you're on
your bossnode's system anyway.  Just stick the GrabMail.REXX in your
MEBBSNET:REXX/ directory, and add the following line to your LOGON.TXT(.GRx)
file(s):

~v!REXX/MEBBSNET:REXX/GRABMAIL#

Also, you need to create a .CFG file for this program and stick it in your
ear (oops, I mean your MEBBSNET:CONFIGFILES/ directory).  You can look at
the example, or create your own.  What it contains is, a list of people you
feed mail and/or files to, and their addresses.  Their name must be in all
CAPS and the address must be separated by periods.  An example would be:

WILLIAM BOWLING
1.102.1011.0
LARRY CLOUD
1.350.31.0
KEITH TOWNSEND
1.366.1968.0
JOE POINT
1.350.31.5

Anyway, this door gets launched at logon (as long as you put that line in
your LOGON.xxx file), and searches through the configfile looking for a
match of the name with the person who is on.  If it doesn't find a match,
it exists quietly, so normal users never even know they're in a door.  On
our system it takes about 1.7 seconds to search through 10 names, so they
won't even notice anything is going on.  Now, if it DOES find a match, it
then looks in the OUT: directory for anything addressed to them.  This is
the only thing really hardcoded into the program, if you don't have your
outbound mail directory assigned as OUT:, you probably should! ;)
ANyway, it goes looking in the OUT: directory, and if it finds anything
with their 4D address it builds up a list.  If it finds a ".FLO", it adds
the contents of it too (yes, its even aware of path'ed FLOs, so your files
don't HAVE to be in OUT: as well).  So once it has everything built up,
it LHA's up the whole schebang and sends it to them with the internal file
send command.  If the transfer is NOT successful, it exits cleanly and
leaves everything alone.  If its successful, it deletes anything that was
destined for their address.  It deletes mail and tics, it does NOT delete
the actual files that were tic'ed, because they may be in someone else's
FLO's as well.

Oh, almost forgot, it ASKS them if it should go through all this before it
actually does it, IF they are in the .CFG and IF they have mail.  Could be
they don't WANT to use such a nifty utility ;)

Well, as usual, these docs are almost as big as the program itself.  I've
tested this thing for the last hour, but I have probably missed SOMETHING.
Let me know how you like it.  I have to get ready for work now (its 6:10am).
This little util only took about an hour to write and another hour to
debug/test.

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