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- MAIL NAME
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Your mail name is the name that will appear at the
- bottom of any correspondence as a kind of signature.
-
- e.g. 73 de Dave
- (followed by some details about your station).
-
- It is also used during automatic logins to initiate an
- FTP session (File Transfer Protocol) where your
- callsign will be used as the login name, and your name
- as the password. Yes, I know it all sounds back to
- front! But when you think about it, your callsign is
- what you are known by in the Amateur world. TCP/IP
- follows that particular line of reasoning too.
-
- If you are associated with a HUB station (a local 24
- hour station that acts in a similar manner to a
- telephone exchange for TCP/IP traffic), you may also
- be using POP (Post Office Protocol) which is one of
- the methods available for collecting mail destined for
- your station.
-
- By the way, if you ever see "ACCESS DENIED" errors on
- your trace screen when trying to POP mail from a HUB
- station, it is probably because your name isn't
- matching the name in the HUB setup exactly. e.g. You
- are logging in as g9zzz don, and the HUB station has
- g9zzz Don in the setup table. don is not the same as
- Don.
-
- This program sets automatic logins to use lower case
- letters (i.e. small letters) always. Make a mental
- note of that just in case you run into a problem
- later.