source: trunk/athena/bin/discuss/mclient/dsmail.1 @ 11323

.TH DSMAIL SIPB "12 Feb 93" "Student Information Processing Board"
.SH NAME
dsmail \- discuss mail feed program
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dsmail
[
.B \-dAD
] [
.B \-a
.I regexp
] [
.B \-r
.I regexp
] [
.B \-s
.I subject-match-limit
]
.B meeting-path-name

.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Dsmail
is used to feed incoming mail into the discuss conferencing system.
It takes a mail message from standard input, formats it, and inserts
it into the proper discuss meeting.  The user running 
.B dsmail
must have ``write'' permission for that meeting.  Typically this will
be daemon, since sendmail runs as daemon.  To enter replies, the user
must have ``answer`` permission for that meeting.
.PP
To setup a mail feed for a meeting, do the following:  Give the user
daemon ``answer'', ``status'', and ``write''access using the discuss command
.BR set_acl .
Then, insert a pipe to
.B dsmail
into the sendmail aliases file /usr/lib/aliases.  For example:
.in +0.5i
tytso@charon.LOCAL:"/site/sipb/bin/dsmail -d 
/usr/spool/discuss/mailtest"@charon.LOCAL
.in
Then, any mail sent to 
.I tytso@charon.LOCAL
will be entered in the meeting
.IR mailtest .
.PP
If desired, dsmail will process the mail headers, and remove the
unnecessary cruft.  If no options are specified, all of the mail
headers are stripped.  By using the options detailed below, you can
have fine control over which headers should be retained:
.TP
.B \-d
will cause
.B dsmail
to retain the ``default'' fields.  These are the to, from, cc, and
date fields, as well as any fields ending in ``-to'' or ``-from''.
.TP
.B \-A
causes ALL fields to be retained.  This can be modified by the 
.B \-r
option.
.TP
.B \-a \fIregexp
causes any fields matching the specified regular expression to be
accepted.
.TP
.B \-r \fIregexp
causes any fields matching the specified regular expression to be
rejected.
.TP
.B \-s \fIsubject-match-limit
specifies that subject matching should be used to chain transactions.  
If this option is specified, the last subject-match-limit number of
transactions are searched backwards to find a matching subject.  If found, the
transaction is chained to the given transaction.  Daemon should have either
``read'' or ``owner'' access to the meeting for this to work.
.TP
.B \-D
turns on the debugging mode.  In this mode, the mail message is not
entered into the discuss meeting.  Instead, it is sent to standard
output so that the formatting of the mail messages can be checked
easily.   This option should only be used interactively.

.SH "IN-REPLY-TO"
dsmail parses the ``In-reply-to'' field in the mail header for
transaction numbers of the form ``[nnnn] in meeting name''.  If one is
found where the given meeting name matches the short or long name of
the meeting, the transaction chained to that transaction number.  If a
meeting name is not given, or the user does not have access to find
out the long name of the meeting, the transaction is automatically
chained to that transaction number.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
discuss(1), aliases(5)
.SH BUGS
Hopefully few.