Email Eagle Version 1.32
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More than just a mailing list program!
 Current Version: 1.78

Installation Instructions for version 1.78
Manual Installation

Once you unzip the package (maintaining directory structure) you will end up with a directory containing two other directories. One is called cgi-files and the other is html-files

The directory called "email-eagle" inside the cgi-files directory needs to be uploaded to the server in ASCII mode, in your cgi-bin or whatever directory you run cgi scripts in.

email-eagle directory contents and file permissions:

admin/           drwxr-xr-x      (chmod 0755)
lists/             drwxrwxrwx     (chmod 0777)
open.cgi        -rwxr-xr-x       (chmod 0755)
redir.cgi         -rwxr-xr-x      (chmod 0755)
subscribe.cgi  -rwxr-xr-x  (chmod 0755)
temp/            drwxrwxrwx  (chmod 0777)

email-eagle/lists directory contents and file permissions:

list.lck        -rw-rw-rw-  (chmod 0666)
list.txt        -rw-rw-rw-  (chmod 0666)
list.txt.bak   -rw-rw-rw-  (chmod 0666)

email-eagle/admin directory contents and file permissions:
index.cgi       -rwxr-xr-x     (chmod 0755)
lib/               drwxrwxrwx   (chmod 0777)
list.txt         -rw-rw-rw-     (chmod 0666)
sysdata/      drwxrwxrwx     (chmod 0777)
templates/    drwxr-xr-x      (chmod 0755)

email-eagle/admin/lib directory contents and file permissions:

EmailEagle.pm     -rw-rw-rw-  (chmod 0755)

email-eagle/admin/sysdata directory contents and file permissions:

backups/         drwxrwxrwx     (chmod 0777)
banned.lck      -rw-rw-rw-      (chmod 0666)
banned.list      -rw-rw-rw-      (chmod 0666)
configs/          drwxrwxrwx      (chmod 0777)
configs.lck      -rw-rw-rw-       (chmod 0666)
mailtemplates/ drwxrwxrwx      (chmod 0777)
passwd.pwd    -rw-rw-rw-      (chmod 0666)
sessions/        drwxrwxrwx      (chmod 0777)
stats/            drwxrwxrwx      (chmod 0777)

Check the first line in each of the .cgi files and make sure it is the correct path to perl for your system. Usually /usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/bin/perl

Open the EmailEagle.pm file in the /admin/lib directory. This is the files that contains most of your configurations. Most are self-explanatory, but we will go over them one at a time.

site_url => 'http://www.example.com',
This is the actual domain name. Be sure to include the http:// as this is the url to your site.

root_dir => '/usr/local/system/path/to/cgi-bin/email-eagle',
 This is the full system path to the email-eagle directory in your cgi-bin. Do not include a trailing slash /.

root_url => 'http://example.com/cgi-bin/email-eagle/subscribe.cgi',
 This is the full url to the subscribe.cgi script.

web_dir => '/usr/local/system/path/to/email-eagle',
 This is the system path to the directory where you uploaded the html-files. They need to be in a web accessible folder, somewhere within your document root.

webfiles_url => 'http://veinotte.com/email-eagle',
As above, only this is the actual URL to that directory.

Once you have everything configured, you log into the admin area. The url will be like so:
    http://example.com/cgi-bin/email-eagle/admin/index.cgi

Your username is:   sitemaps
Your password is:   temp

The first thing you want to do is change these immediately! Log in and change your username and password in the Edit Configurations area. Then you can start adding lists, etc.

The directory called html-files contains just one item - an image that is actually a transparent gif. This is used for tracking opened emails when you send HTML mailings. This image has to be in a web accessible directory (such as your images directory) and the full path to this directory must be set correctly in the EmailEagle.pm file which is in /admin/lib directory. Here is an example of the related configuration items:

web_dir => '/usr/full/system/path/html/email-eagle',
webfiles_url => 'http://example.com/email-eagle',

The /usr/full/system/... needs to be the full system path to the directory containing the image, and the webfiles_url would be the actual URL to that same directory, with no trailing slash.

We will be releasing a complete users guide shortly. Check back at this site.

 

 

 

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