
 
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ Option:  PM  PRIVATE MAIL ROBOT │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
 

┌─Explanation────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 
  Have you ever asked yourself, how you can leave a message to all
  the people, who are writing you, while you are absent and can't
  answer your mail ?

  Here is the answer. This fine option does a great job. It answers
  your private mail even NetMail and informs somebody else, who is
  perhaps thousands miles away, that you will answer his message
  in two weeks. At the moment you are with some friends in holiday.
  

  This Option has two parts.

  1) The first part is a door for the users. The User can enter a message,
     which will be written to everybody, who writes him a private message.
     The User can specify a date range. Before the start day nothing
     happens. After the start day the MCS answers the mail of the user.
     Everybody, who writes to this User, will get one AnswerMsg - even,
     if he writes him several messages. After the finish date the MCS will
     delete the AnswerMessage and will send a report to the User. This
     option doesn't set the Received Flag, so the User can continue
     reading his mail like normally and this option hasn't answered
     the mail already.

     Here is an Example-Message:

               ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
               │ I am in Holiday. As soon as i am back,│
               │ i will answer your message.           │
               │                                       │
               │ Bye, JuLo.                            │
               └───────────────────────────────────────┘


  2) The second part of this Option checks for mail to users, who have
     asked the MCS to answer their mail. You have to specify the MsgArea,
     which should be scanned. NetMail Areas are supported.

 
  And now i want to explain you the files, which are used by this
  option.

  ■ The JLM?????.@PM Files are containing the messages.
  ■ The JLC?????.@PM Files are containing the MsgHeaders of the answered
                           Messages.

  ■ The  JL{ROB}.@PM File  handles the JLM*.@PM and JLC*.@PM Files.
                           JLUTIL reads this File, if somebody enters
                           a new Message, to detect, which number
                           it can use for the JLM*.@PM and JLC*.@PM
                           Files. This file is the ControlFile of
                           this option.

  ■ The NOANSWER.@JL File  You can specify names like OZROBOT,NETMAIL SYSTEM
                           or whatever and /PM will not answer the mail from
                           the entries in this file.

                              ┌─NOANSWER.@JL──────────────────────────┐
                              │                                       │
                              │ MAILBOX CONTROL SYSTEM                │
                              │ MASTER CONTROL SYSTEM                 │
                              │ OZROBOT                               │
                              │ NETMAIL SYSTEM                        │
                              └───────────────────────────────────────┘

   ■ The message file, PM sends to a sender of a message is
     TOSENDER.MSG in MSGPATH.

   ■ The message file, PM sends as a report to the user of your
     BBS is ROB-RPT.MSG in MSGPATH.
 


┌─Syntax─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  JLUTIL /PM [MsgDir/?/~] [-Switches]
 
 
┌─Switch──────Description────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  NONE        Nothing happens
   -C         Check for Msgs
   -E         Door for the logged-on User to Enter a Answer-Msg
   -P         Reads and writes the position of the last scanned message.
 
 
┌─Parameter───Description────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  MsgArea     Specify the MsgArea, which should be scanned.

 
┌─Examples───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  JLUTIL -E
  JLUTIL ~ -C
  JLUTIL ~ -CP
  JLUTIL ? -C
  JLUTIL E:\GT\MESSAGE -CP


