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Setting Up a Finger Plan
The Internet Finger protocol lets Internet users request information that an administrator or user wants to make available; the information must be stored in a "Plan" file. The contents of the file are returned in response to Finger requests from other hosts, provided the system administrator enables Finger and allows the user's plan to be presented. The Plan contents are displayed in addition to the login user name and other information displayed by the Finger server. (Note that WS_Ping ProPack includes a Finger client.)
IMail Server comes with a Finger server. The system administrator can disable the transmission of any information about any user through the Finger protocol by turning on Hide from information services on the user's General tab.
To create or modify a Finger Plan:
- Start IMail Administrator. In the left panel, select a host name and then a user.
- Click the Plan tab. The Finger properties appear.
- Enter any information you desire to make publicly available to Finger clients. The information is stored in a file named plan.ima in the user's home directory.
- Click Apply.
IMail sends information in response to a Finger request if the file named plan.ima exists in a user's home directory; the contents of that file are sent. (The system administrator can disable the transmission of any information as described above.)
Once a Finger plan has been set up for one user, the plan.ima file can be copied to the directories of other users. See "Applying User Settings to other Users".
Note: Users can modify their Finger information in Web Messaging by selecting Change Finger Information from Personal Account Options.
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