THIS FILE CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION. PLEASE READ IT COMPLETELY. -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first so-called final release of Voodoo. While Voodoo has undergone a long beta and gamma testing period, it is likely that several of bugs still exist. These bugs should not, however, be critical to the use of Voodoo. To install Voodoo, just click on the Install script. You can also just run it from the directory. The Installer will copy the ClassAct libraries to your system and optionally install AmiPOP and Sabot for you. Many of you may have heard of Voodoo before, and expect some things of it. I hope the program lives up to the expectations. One thing that was on the spec sheet from the start, but of which you can not see a trace in the program, is PGP support. This is one of the main things I have yet to implement, it being quite tricky to integrate with MIME, but it will be in the registered Serious Voodoo version. One more reason to buy that program. Oh, one thing. Voodoo's mail folders are _not_ files. They're directories, with every message in a separate file. Keep that in mind while configuring.. If you want to import your old UNIX mailbox format mail folders (such as those from AmigaElm) to Voodoo, that can be done simply by configuring that file as the mail spool file and then "get new mail". Make a backup of the folder first, since Voodoo will wipe the spool file after import. One thing not included in this distribution for legality reasons is a mail delivery agent for sending messages out from your machine. I would recommend SMTPpost from INetUtils, on Aminet as: IU-14-as225.lha comm/net 387K+AS225r2 SMTP/NNTP utilities v1.4 INetUtils IU-14-amitcp.lha comm/tcp 392K+AmiTCP SMTP/NNTP utilities v1.4 INetUtils Helpful notes about installing SMTPpost can be found in Voodoo.guide if the INetUtils documentation is not sufficient. The included BOOPSI gadget and image classes are part of ClassAct, copyright Phantom Development, written by Chris Aldi, Tim Aston, Greg Block, and yours truly. For information about using Voodoo in your own applications, refer to http://www.warped.com/~timmer/classact.html, or http://www.nai.net/~caldi/. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of my beta testers for a job well done: Heikki Kantola Magnus Lilja Gregory Block Dan Murrell, Jr Mike Latinovich Chris Aldi Paul Reece David Swasbrook Timothy J. Aston Scott Ellis Addison Laurent Michael Hohmann Thanks a bunch guys, I couldn't have done this without your help. A big extra thanks also goes to Scott Ellis for AmiPOP and Sabot, included in this distribution. I hope you like this program. In case you have problems or you otherwise wish to contact me, I can be reached at the address below. For complete contact information, please refer to the AmigaGuide manual. Osma Ahvenlampi PS. Don't forget to check the Voodoo Web page for any recent developments. The URL is http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~oahvenla/voodoo/. Voodoo also has a mailing list devoted to it. If you want to get on the mailing list, send a message to majordomo@warped.com with the text "subscribe voodoo" in the message body.