FileInMail deployment

Chapter 4 - Customizing the deployment

This chapter explains how to customize the running behaviour on the client computers, in order to simplify installation and usage of the software.

Customizing the menu

The FileInMail's menu appears by right clicking the trayed icon.

You may want to disable the top entries on it to avoid the end user clicking them by mistake.

• You can disable the Language menu entry, so that the FileInMail's interface will be avalable only in the currently selected language.
  To do so, enter the FileInMail directory (usually c:\Program Files\FileInMail) and delete all .MSG files.
  
  
• It's even possible to disable the Configuration, Language and Registration entries, so that the user cannot change neither the local configuration, nor the registration details.
  To disable those menu entries you have to start FileInMail with the NOMENU parameter, as described in the next section.

FileInMail Command Line Parameters

This parameters can be used to change the running behaviour of FileInMail.

If you start FileInMail by a batch file of your own, simply add them after FileInMail.EXE, otherwise you'll have to manually change the shortcut used to start it. If you haven't unticked the options when installing FileInMail, you've one on the desktop and one at Start -> Program Files -> Startup, that makes FileInMail starting automatically at the PC boot-up.

You can use only one of the following parameters at a time.

• NOMENU
  This parameter is used to disable the top menu entries: Configuration, Language and Registration, as described in the previous section.
  
  
• CLOSE
  By running "FileInMail CLOSE" you can automatically close all the FileInMail copies which are in execution on the machine.
  It's useful when FileInMail is run by a batch file, to avoid having multiple copies running simultaneously.
  For example:
  
  

  C:\> EDIT START.BAT START.BAT @echo off c: cd \"Program Files"\FileInMail start FileInMail.exe cd \My_Dir My_App.Exe cd \"Program Files"\FileInMail start FileInMail.exe CLOSE

  
  
• File_name.FIM
  A FIM file (FileInMail Licenses File) may contain one or more FileInMail licenses. It can be provided you by your FileInMail Reseller at purchase time. By specifying the FIM file name after "FileInMail.exe", all the licenses contained in the FIM file will be automatically imported in FileInMail, without having to manually insert the codes in the registration dialog.
  
  
• REPORT
  This parameter creates a FileInMailSupport.zip file containing your local configuration, that can be manually sent to the support team if you need technical assistance and FileInMail doesn't start at all.
  This is a last resort solution; normally you can contact us by the faster methods described at https://www.FileInMail.com/esupp.htm.

Setup Command Line Parameters

Even the Setup program's behaviour can be affected by some parameters which may be used to simplify the installation for the end users.

The parameters below can be combined in a single line. For example: c:\> setup-fm.exe /SILENT /DIR="c:\FileInMail"

• /LANG
  By adding this parameter, the setup program will use the specified language without asking the end user.
  Can have the following values: ae (Arabic), br (Brazilian), ca (Catalan), cz (Czech), dk (Danish), nl (Dutch), en (English), fi (Finnish), fr (French), ge (German), gr (Greek), he (Hebrew), hu (Hungarian), ic (Icelandic), it (Italian), ma (Macedonian), no (Norwegian), pl (Polish), pt (Portuguese), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian), se (Serbian), sl (Slovenian), sp (Spanish), sw (Swedish), tr (Turkish) and ur (Urdu).
  
  
• /SILENT, /VERYSILENT
  Instructs Setup to be silent or very silent. When Setup is silent only the installation progress window is displayed.
  When a setup is very silent normally nothing is displayed, but eventually error messages, like "Disk Full" etc.
  
  
• /NOCANCEL
  Prevents the user from cancelling during the installation process, by disabling the Cancel button and ignoring clicks on the close button.
  
  
• /DIR="x:\dirname"
  Overrides the default directory name displayed on the Select Destination Location wizard page. A fully qualified pathname must be specified.
  
  
• /GROUP="folder name"
  Overrides the default folder name displayed on the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page.

Running multiple FileInMail copies on the same PC, with different configurations

If you haven't unticked the option at installation time, the FileInMail's Setup program places a shortcut to FileInMail.exe in the commonstartup Windows folder (Start -> All Programs -> Startup) so that FileInMail is automatically executed each time an user login the machine.

This makes FileInMail starting automatically on Client Windows OS's, at the PC bootup, while on Terminal Server environments a different FileInMail instance is run for each remote user logging in the server; each one with an user's specific configuration, automatically managed by FileInMail.

In some cases however, you may want to run multiple FileInMail instances yourself, even on Client OS's, with different configurations (FileInMail.ini).

To do so, you'll have to replace the shortcut to FileInMail.exe in the commonstartup folder with a batch file, like follows:

Either c:\folder1 or c:\folder2 must contain a different FileInMail.INI file, which will be used to store the specific FileInMail instance's configuration. By entering (cd) the directory before starting FileInMail, you'll instruct FileInMail to use the specific configuration stored there.