Using Avalonia MailRouter

As the Avalonia MailRouter has been designed to run in the background, you will seldom need to pull it to the foreground. Actually MailRouter will do its best to prevent you from doing so.
The only way to move MailRouter to the foreground is by holding the Command-key down while you select MailRouter in the process menu in the upper right corner.
When pulled to the foreground MailRouter will open a dialog containing three buttons:

• The Reset button will reinitialize MailRouter, by processing any mail waiting to be handled and checking the alias file for modifications.
• The Restart button will restart MailRouter.
• The Quit button allows you to quit MailRouter.

As soon as you press one of the buttons, MailRouter will be sent to the background.

Sometimes, when MailRouter is brought to the foreground in System 8.X, the Finder will put up a alert, complaining about a minor communication problem with the number -917. The reason for this is outdated information, which is automatically updated as soon as the alert is shown. With normal usage of MailRouter this alert is shown very seldomly, and has no consequences for the function of MailRouter or the system. If you get this alert you can just press the OK button in the alert and ignore the message.

As MailRouter is scriptable, you can start, quit, restart and reset MailRouter from an AppleScript.