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Requirements

 


There are a few required prerequisites to operate MaxSponder on your Unix account and a few prerequisites that are needed to use the more advanced email based signup/delete features of the system.  If you have any questions, please ask. And remember, we are happy to do the installation for you.

General prerequisites
 

Your domain must be hosted on a Unix system (which can include Unix, BSD Unix, Linux, etc) not on a Windows NT based server. This product does not work on Windows based server platforms.
 
You must have MySQL available on your host machine and a MySQL database set up for your domain.
 
Your domain must use Perl version 5.004 or higher. Please note that some hosting companies have both Perl versions 4.0 and 5.004 so if you are uncertain, please ask before purchasing a domain there.
 
You must have the appropriate perl modules installed to access MySQL (these include DBD.pm and DBI.pm for MySQL which are available for download/installation at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/api-dbi.html in case your support people need to know where to find the appropriate installation files for these Perl modules.)
 
 You must have a cgi-bin directory in your domain
 
You must have the ability to run CRON jobs. Cron jobs are background scheduled tasks that run once per day (or more) to do certain tasks automatically
 
You must have telnet access or some web interface access that lets you schedule your Cron job.
 
  NOTE: If you have your own dedicated server and you ask your support people to install MySQL on it for you, chances are that they will neglect to install DBI.pm and DBD.pm for MySQL. If you are getting them to install MySQL for you, please be sure to ask them to also install those two Perl modules. MaxSponder needs both to operate properly.

 

Desired prerequisites to get the most out of MaxSponder
 

To get maximum use of the system, and to use the E-Mail based sign-up feature, you must have the ability to specify multiple e-mail addresses for your domain all going to a single pop account. This means that you can send E-Mail to john@yourdomain.com, mailto:alice@yourdomain.com , sales@yourdomain.com, etc
 

For the E-Mail based customer sign-up feature to work, you must have telnet access and the ability to set up a '.forward' file in your login directory that can execute cgi programs (or a similar functional method to allow for analysis of incoming emails by a cgi program . One such method is a procmail script.) If you do not have this on your account, you can still use the package but you must subscribe everyone manually through a signup form.
 

We do not consider it a failure on the part of the software if the hosting company does not support desired prerequisites. You will still be able to run the full functionality of the package except that everything will be form based signups and removals as opposed to email based signups.

 

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