PMDF popstore & MessageStore Manager's Guide

7.6 Changing New Account Defaults

Recall that when a new account is created with the ADD command, the default account is used as a source of defaults for the new account. Thus, by changing the settings for the default account with the MODIFY command, you change the defaults which will be applied to subsequently created accounts. For instance, to change the default account quota to 100 kbytes with an overdraft quota of 10 kbytes, you would modify the default account accordingly:

popstore> MODIFY DEFAULT/QUOTA=100/OVERDRAFT=10

Note that the settings for the default account only applies to new accounts created with the ADD command. The default account settings do not apply to all existing accounts.

7.7 Bulk Loading Accounts

To create many accounts at once, use the @ command to execute commands from a command file. Before using that command, first create a file containing commands with one command per line. For instance,

$ TYPE A.COM ADD BJAMES/OWNER="Bob James"/PASSWORD=837271 ADD CSMITH/OWNER="Cathy Smith"/PASSWORD=382374 ADD RBROWN/OWNER="Randy Brown"/PASSWORD=383838 ... $

Then use the @ command to execute the commands from the file:

$ PMDF POPSTORE popstore> @A.COM popstore> ADD BJAMES/OWNER="Bob James"/PASSWORD=837271 popstore> ADD CSMITH/OWNER="Cathy Smith"/PASSWORD=382374 popstore> ADD RBROWN/OWNER="Randy Brown"/PASSWORD=383838 popstore> ... popstore> QUIT $

Each command will be read from the specified file and executed. If an error occurs, it will be reported and processing of the file will continue. Each command from the file will be echoed as it is executed. Use the @@ command to suppress the command echo,

$ PMDF POPSTORE popstore> @A.COM popstore> QUIT $

Any command recognized by this utility can be used in the command file, including @ and @@ commands.

7.8 Returning or Deleting Messages

A user's stored messages can be deleted with the DELETE/MESSAGES command. When the /RETURN qualifier is also specified, any unread messages are returned as unread to their sender. For instance, to delete the messages for the account jdoe, returning any unread messages, use the command

popstore> DELETE/MESSAGES/RETURN JDOE

Note that the /RETURN qualifier can also be used with the DELETE command as described in Section 7.5.

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