25. What are plugins for?

The plug-ins are the user's message processing programs which can solve practically any problem. The file with letter is sent to plug-in for its processing, and plug-in can modify it soever or even delete it. See the next question to get more info about ADR standard plug-ins. Even a simple batch-file can be ADR plug-in - it's easy to create plug-in for ADR because you can do that knowing no programming languages.

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26. What are the "standard" ADR plugins?

ADR standard plug-ins perform the merger mailing with database (FromSQL plug-in; letter-template macros are expanded with database information extracted by message recipient email), the addition and deletion of technical information in letter headline (XRay and AdKludge plug-ins), the private information mailing (SendNum, RealName plug-ins). The plug-ins list is supplemented regularly; refer to program help system for the latest news.

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27. What programming languages can plugins be written with?

At any language. A plug-in is a program (MS-DOS .COM, Win32 .EXE or special .DLL) or command file (.BAT) which must process a file with a letter which name is specified as the first parameter of command line. So you can create ADR plug-ins even without any programming experience.

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28. Can I use your source codes in my plugins?

Yes, of course! The most of ADR plug-ins are distributed with source codes (on Delphi and C) you can use them without any restrictions in your projects or modify them for your needs.

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29. What are the other ways of using ADR in my programs?

ADR provides a programmer with two powerful opportunities - to organize mail delivery without going deep into special aspects of socket programming, and to create new message processing programs (plugins). Your program can merely generate text files with messages and put them in MAIL\OUT directory, so that Advanced Direct Remailer send them. Please, see article "Information for programmers" of program help for details.

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