• [VOICENWS] SW: Weasel version 2.4 and INIServe version 2.8

    From feedback@os2voice.org@1:3634/1000 to All on Sun Aug 6 10:01:46 2017

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    From: peterDESPAM@DESPAMpmoylan.org

    This is to announce a simultaneous release of new versions of Weasel and INIServe (both are freeware and open source). They can be fetched from
    ftp://ftp.pmoylan.org/software/iniser2.8.zip
    ftp://ftp.pmoylan.org/Weasel/weasel_2.4.zip
    or from Hobbes incoming, or from http://www.pmoylan.org.

    Weasel is a mail server, and INIServe enables remote configuration of
    Weasel. (Plus remote configuration of anything else that uses INI or TNI
    files for its configuration options.) Weasel version 2.39 introduced a
    new way of deciding whether to use an INI or TNI file. Basically, the
    rule was to use whichever file existed, with tie-breaker rules for the
    case where both existed. This new release ensures that the same rules
    apply when using remote configuration. For that to work, however,
    INIServe version 2.8 is a prerequisite. The small but significant change
    to INIServe adds a "file does not exist" error response.

    Remote configuration means that you can run your mail server (or FTP
    server, or a few other possibilities) on one machine, but control it
    from a different machine. This is to handle the common case where the
    server machine does not have a keyboard or monitor.

    -- Peter Moylan mailto://peter@pmoylan.org
    http://www.pmoylan.org

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