ZenMetal Software would like to announce the release of CNet Amiga Professional Bullein Board/Portal version 5. Popular features include: NEW features: *UpdateCheck - a command for Internet-connected CNet's to automatically check and download updates. We are working on scripting to allow updates to be auto-installed. *bugReport - a command to allow sysops (and users if the sysop chooses) to file bug reports with ZenMetal Software. *FTN-FTP - you can now get your FIDONET (FTN) mail across internet FTP! Older features: *Fully Y2K-ready! *AREXX scripting for easy door creation. *Powerful CNet/C programming interface for easy C door programming. *Supports AmigaDOS doors that use standard I/O. *Account cacheing for FAST account lookup. *32 access levels for common user configurations. However, if required, each and every account may be customized regardless of the user access level. *up to 100 user-accessible ports (dial-up and telnet access included). *up to 65535 file/message/door areas. *Easy configuration of user/system limits, file/byte credit ratios, defaults and users via both online editors and offline GUI-based editors. *Support for long device names such as "squirrelserial.device". *NULL modem support for serial LAN access. *Telnet client and service daemon, so that users may telnet to and from internet sites and LAN terminals. *Direct support of NNTP (Usenet) newsgroup importing into CNet message conferences. *The ability to distribute mails in user-defined folders. *For ease of use, users may choose to only have a single mail folder ("inbox") to reduce confusion. *"trashcan" support of user email. *Inter-User Chat (IUC) allows user-user chat in line mode or full-screen mode. "Join" command for multi-user conference chat. *Logging of most commands for easy system administration including the capability of "port capture" which is an exact capture of everything the user did while online; can be enabled or disabled for each user. *Intercept Mail Processing (IMP) allows incoming mail to be trapped according to sysop-configurable criteria, and processed in a number of ways. Current processing includes importing to: "mailing list subboards," processed via ARexx or AmigaDOS script or forwarded *"carbon copy" mail and forwarding of mail to an internet address. *Native IRC client (based on the popular IRC-II) so that users may join Internet Relay Chat servers and channels, including our own irc.cnetbbs.net server where they may join the channel #cnetindependent. CNet Amiga's IRC client also support DCC send and receive. *Native internet FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client to allow your users access to files available on the internet or any host accessible via the FTP protocol. *Native SMTP service daemon that sits on the TCP/SMTP port and accepts incoming mail to your system, as opposed to POP3 which must connect to a remote pop3 server to retrieve internet mail. NOTE: A POP3 inetd daemon is available for CNet from a 3rd party CNet door developer. *Users have a personal FILES directory which is used to hold their decoded mail attachments and file that they have received from FTP sites. *CNet Commander - a directory utility used for "direct" file access and for users' personal FILES directory maintenance. *easy account suspending, should you need to temporarily (or permanently) suspend a user account from logging in. *A background mail server. The user does not have to wait for outgoing mail to be sent. It is handled by a background server task. A GUI is present for the sysop to monitor the number of netmail, local mail and bounced mails sent/received. *Background file testing tests uploaded files and notifies users of corrupt archives. *Background file transformation, in which uploaded files are converted to the System Operator's preference, separately configurable for each file conference/area. *Configurable local and remote "viewers" for examining the contents of files and packed archives. *On Line Message (OLM) capability for users to send a 1-4 line message to users on other ports. Broadcast OLMs are also possible in which users may write single OLMs that are sent to all ports. *A "Cron" editor to schedule time variable/critical events. *Appicon, AppMenu and Commodities Exchange support. *Mailscan at login, which notifies users if they have mail as soon as they login. *Feedback/NewUser scan at logon which notified maint users if there is new user mail or feedback pending. *Mail-sorting by name, subject and date. Descending or Ascending order. *A background "yank-task" to facilitate QWK and text-based offline reading. *Users may jump directly to a favorite conference/area/subboard by using the GO command. (eg. "GO uploads" to get to the upload file-transfer area) *Guest user support for users who just want to "browse" the system before joining as an official member. *Full ARexx support for many system functions. *FILE_ID.DIZ support which extracts pre-existing file descriptions from uploads. *Easy sysop file uploading to the system via an "Adopt Orphans" command. ... much, MUCH more! Where to get further information: WWW: www.cnetbbs.net E-Mail: rakeyantispam@cnetbbs.net Alternate E-Mail: zenantispam@resurrection.com (please remove the "antispam" part of the above mail address(es) to send email.) -- Feel free to try out our CNet Amiga demo! Just point your browser at our site and look for the DOWNLOAD link. Be sure to download the demo bbslicense. Ray Akey - CEO/ZenMetal Software - Programmers of: CNet Amiga Professional IAS (Previously known as CNet Amiga BBS) Internet/Intranet/LAN server and custom applications.