How to post a Netmail message
© Daniel Hanna, 1992.

There are special tricks involved in posting a private 'Netmail' message in TeleFinder.  It's not a very logical method, but that's mainly because TeleFinder is not really well adapted to Fidonet at this stage.  Future versions of TeleFinder may make it more 'Fido friendly', but for now we must use the following work-around:

Instead of putting the recipient's name in the 'To:' box, you must address the message to 'NetMail'.  

NOTE: The software that addresses our NetMail is CASE SENSITIVE. You cannot address your message to 'Netmail', 'netmail' or 'NETMAIL'. If you do, the message will fail - even though the BBS will accept it and not inform you of your mistake. The one and ONLY way to get your message through is to address it to 'NetMail'.

You can fill in the 'Subject:' field as you normally would. (Whew!)

Then, on the first line of the message you must type in the exact name of the person you wish to send mail to (in this case, Joe Bloggs).  On the second line, you must enter the exact Fidonet address of the recipient.  Extra spaces or inaccurate numbers will mean that the message will not go through.  If the order or format is not correct, the BBS will return the message to your mail-box the next day, notifying you that the message was not sent.

Please ensure that you have correct names and addresses of people to whom you wish to send mail.  This will save unnecessary traffic over the network, and (naturally) you'll be much surer that your message reached its destination!