bMail Aardvark readme file

You can find updated installation instructions at bMail Website.

Document under development.

Server Requirements
# PHP version 4.1 or greater
# MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater

Quick Install Instructions:

1. Download and unpack bMail
• This should create a directory named 'bmail' wherever you unpacked it
2. Create a database MySQL on your webserver for bMail to use, and a MySQL user to access it.
• Your webhost should provide a MySQL server and access information
3. Rename 'config.sample.php' to 'config.php' in the "setup" directory of bMail
4. Configure bMail to use the database by editing your renamed config.php
• Open 'config.php' in a text editor and follow the instructions
5. Move bMail to your webserver
• Use FTP or another means to transfer the bMail files to your website

Using bMail    Once you have copied bMail to your webserver, visit its location on the web. A script will help you through the rest of the way. Once finished, login and visit the settings page to further configure bMail. When configured, you'll want to setup subscriber demographics and generate a subscription form to embed in your website*.

    * Future versions of bMail will have much nicer subscription form generation options. '

Upgrading bMail    If you are upgrading bMail simply copy the new files over the old ones. A clean way to do this is to backup your config.php file (in the "setup" directory), then remove the entire bmail directory from your webserver. After this is done, copy the new bmail diretory in the old one's place and replace your config.php file. When finished, visit bMail on your webserver and an upgrade script will automatically be called.

NOTE TO Aardvark PR6 USERS and BELOW - As of PR7, configuration is handled in the database. Because of this, your old configuration settings will be lost (including your login/password -- which will be restored to "admin"/"bmail" respectively).