i.Scribe Installation and Setup

To install i.Scribe from the zip file:

1. Create a directory on your hard drive for i.Scribe to live in
2. Unzip all the files in the distribution archive into the directory you created. Remember to preserve directories when unzipping.
3. Create a shortcut in the Start Menu and / or desktop to the file "Scribe.exe" in i.Scribes directory.
4. Command line options available:
   • /o [filename]
     Sets the options file to use. Files with the extension ".ini" will be read and written in text, other extensions will be in binary.
   • /m [address[,address]]
     
   • /t [address[,address]]
     New email, specify the primary addressee of the message
   • /f [filename]
     New email, specify the file which should be sent as the body of the message
   • /b (no parameter)
     If present, indicates that the file is binary and should be attached.
   • /c [address[,address]]
     New email, specify Carbon Copy (CC:) recipients of the message
   • /s ["subject"]
     New email, specify the message subject (must appear in quotes)

Note: If you are upgrading scribe to a new version you only need the scribe.exe file from the distribution archive.

Then to configure i.Scribe:

1. Start i.Scribe by clicking on the shortcut you created or "Scribe.exe"
2. If the installation was successful an window labelled i.Scribe will appear
3. If you are installing for the first time you will get a message saying: "Could not find or open the mail folders file. Would you like to create one?". Click Yes to create a mail folders file. This file will contain all the email and contacts that you will see in the program.
4. Click File | Options
5. Fill out your name and email address in the identity tab. The software key field is only relevent to the commercial version: InScribe. Just ignore it.
6. Fill out your SMTP and POP3 server details in the respective tabs. Your server's name is likely to be something like mail.<your_isp's_domain> or smtp.<your_isp's_domain> and pop[3].<your_isp's_domain>. Check your Isp's website or documentation for exact details. You can use the <address>:<port> syntax to override the port setting if needed
7. If you access the internet via a SOCKS 5 proxy server fill out the details in the Socks5 tab, if you don't know what username and password to use then try it without any first, if that fails ask your network administrator.

   The current implementation is limited in that it can't log to the file specified in the options tab as well as connect via Socks and it also only uses socks for Pop3 connections.

Some Notes about sig[nature] files:

In your sig file you can specify to include a random paragraph from another file. Using this syntax:

Then place the quotes or whatever in the lines.txt file, where each peice of text is separated by a blank line. This allows multi-line sections to be randomly included in your sig :)