Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: JC-QWK - A QWK Offline Mail Door for Remote Access General help file This help file will cover all options available on this door. It will be sent with the first mail packet you download from this door, so you can browse it offline. What is JC-QUK anyway? JC-QUX is an electronic mail system designed to run on Remote Access and compatible bulletin board systems. Reading and replying to bulletin board mail is time consuming, often taking up your entire allocated time on a BBS. If you read lots of mail, spend a lot of time on-line replying to and entering new mail, and/or have large phone bills from calling computer bulletin board systems (BBS's), then JC-QUK may be just what you need! With JC-QUK you can collect the latest mail in the conferences you choose and download them to your own computer, so you can read it at your leisure. However, you will need a QUK compatible mail reader, available for download from this BBS. JC-QUE will scan mail in all selected message areas. After scanning it will show the size of the packet and ask to continue downloading. Once you have downloaded the mail packet to your PC, you can log off and use a QUK compatible mailreader to read and reply to your mail. In summary, the JC-QWK lets you do the following: Select your favorite mail conferences b) Scan for your new mail c) Bundle the mail into the common QUK packet format d) Compress the bundle using your favorite archiver c) Transfer the packet to your PC using a standard file transfer Protocol such as Xnoden, Ynoden, or Znoden a connonly available reader program after logging off to read and reply to the new mail g) Log back on the same BBS to upload the reply packet if you have written messages. h) Repeat from the beginning. JC-QUX is fun to use but also has value by saving you time and money. Try it out. Your electronic mailing will never be the same! <D>ownload mail Downloading means JC-QWK will SCAM for new mail, pack it up with an archiver, and send it to your PC. When you select this option, JC-QWK will begin to scan your selected mail arcas for new mail. This is called the scanning process. When it is done, it will show you the packet size and ask you if you want to continue downloading of a file - for example, BBSNAME. QUK. This file is called the QUK MAIL PACKET. When you press enter or Yes, it will begin to send the QUK file to you using the file transfer method you selected. <U>pload mail When you use a QWK compatible mail reader on your PC to reply or create new mail, the reader will create a file with the extension REP, for example BBSMAME. REP. This is called the QUE REPLY file. To send mail to JC-QUK, you must upload this reply file. When you select this option, JC-QWK will tell you to start sending your mail using the FILE TRANSFER method you selected. Consult your communications program's documentation with it. for instructions on how to do this, if you aren't familiar When the file transfer is completed, JC-QUK will begin to "toss" the mail into the appropiate mail arcas. <R>estore pointers (To last run) This option will reset the mail pointers to the value(s) they had at the previous succeesed mail run. Use this if something goes wrong with a QWK packet and you want to redo it. <Modify pointers This option will prompt you to enter the number of messages you wish to receive per area in the next mail run. You can also do this when you first select the area - when asked if you want to select all messages starting from last read message, answer NO. You will be prompted for a number of messages for only that area. What are Last Read Pointers anyway? The last read pointers are markers maintained by the BBS and by JC-QUK to indicate where exactly in the mail system you last read your mail. This allows for the BBS and JC-QUK to quickly find all new messages beginning from the last one you read Normally, as a user, you do not need to play with your last read pointers. However, there are times when you may want to alter the last read pointers to either get MORE mail or get LESS mail or to basically restart from the beginning. <S>elect areas (Mail areas) In this section, you define the mail areas of interest for mail scanning. Bulletin boards usually carry a tremendous amount of mail areas. But JC-QWK allows you to select the areas of interest and only those areas selected are scanned for mail. The mail areas are numbered sequentially. <I>ndex files toggle ( ~. NDX on/off) Traditional QUK mail has index files for its mail. Some QUK readers do not use or need them. Deselecting this option will tell JC-QWK not to create the index files for QUK mail packets. <H>ew files toggle If you turn this option OM, JC-QWK will sent you a file containing new (public) files available on the system during the last 30 days With your offline mail reader, you will be able to read the new files list and possibly use the file request system to download files. (not available yet in this JC-QUX release) <C>ompression method (ZIP ARJ LHA) Your sysop has provided a list of available archiver programs. Archivers are programs that compress and expand multiple files into a single, smaller file. This allows you to get the mail files in one bundle, rather than several separate files, and makes transfer time shorter. JC-QUK will use the archiver that you choose from this list to compress and expand the mail. Choose the one you would like to use and intend to use on your PC. For instance, if you like the PKZIP archiver, choose PKZIP from the list and configure your offline mail reader to use PKZIP. <I>ransfer protocol (2-Y-X-noden) This option will list the available file transfer protocols for selection. Use your favorite transfer protocol for downloading and uploading messages. ZMODEM is a very popular and efficient file transfer mechanism and is highly recommended. <Q>uit to BBS Quit will take you back to the BBS. <Goodbye (Logoff) Goodbye will log you off and hang up the phone. Fido style Netmal JCQUX does support Fido style Metmail, even though the QUK readers were not designed to handle it normally. The one thing missing from a normal message that is required for netmail is the destination address and flags. JCQUE interprets the subject of the message as containing the destination address if it starts with an "@" sign. Itunderstands both full addresses as wel as a variety of short-form addresses (where the remaining part of the address is based on the main address or AKA for the netmail message area. Some examples (assuming an address of 2:281/610): @283/222 send to 2:283/222 @2:281/506 send to 2:281/506 @132 send to 2:281/132 0.234 send to 2:281/610.234 On messages exported from the BBS, the subject line will contain the originating address for the netmail areas. This was done to allow you to reply without entering the address, since it will already be in the subject line. If you want the subject to look normal on the netmail messages you write, you need to use the first message textline as the subject and start it with "Subj:". Exemple: Subj: QUK message readers
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