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15 Message Status Bits
Message status bits determines how FD will treat outbound (outgoing)
messages and how FM will treat locally destined messages. The Message
status menu is accessed by pressing <Alt-S> in FM and is also
displayed when entering a new message and changing the subject of a
message.
The keys listed refer to the status menu in FM.
<Ctrl-P>
Private Indicates that the message should only be read by the
addressee.
<Ctrl-C>
Crash High-priority mail. Messages with crash status can
never be routed or held by a route file (see Mail
routing). Crash messages do, however, NOT override
any cost restrictions for an event; they also require
that the destination system has been qualified before
FD will call it.
<Ctrl-H>
Hold The hold status will force FD to ignore the message
unless the destination system calls your system to
pick up its mail. If the message is destined for a
point system and the boss of the point system calls
your system, the message will be given to the boss
unless the message also has Direct status.
<Ctrl-F>
File Indicates that the message has one or more files
attached to it. The files are listed in the subject
(Re:) line. File attach messages can be routed and
held unless another status bit (Crash, Immediate,
Hold, etc.) prevents it. The default treatment of a
file attach message is to send it directly to its
destination.
<Ctrl-R>
File Request Indicates that the message is a File Request. The
requested files are listed in the subject line and
may contain wild-cards characters. File request
messages can be held, but are never routed. See "File
Requests".
<Ctrl-U>
Update request Similar to a File Request, <Ctrl-R>, but the subject
line (Re:) must contain valid (existing) file
specification(s). When FD connects to the destination
system, the requested files will only be sent by the
remote if they are more recent than the matching
files on your system. See "File Requests"
<Ctrl-K>
Kill/Sent Removes the message after it has been sent or picked
up. If the Kill/Sent status is not set on a message,
it will be marked as sent after it has been sent or
picked up.
<Ctrl-T>
Truncate file/sent
Truncates the attached files to zero length after
they have been sent or picked up. This option is only
valid for file attach messages.
Note that it is nearly impossible to recover a
truncated file so use this option with caution.
<Ctrl-E>
Delete file/sent
Removes the attached files after they have been sent
or picked up. This option is only valid for file
attach messages.
<Ctrl-D>
Direct Similar to the Crash status, with the difference that
they can be held. Messages with the Direct and Hold
status combined require that the destination system
(including points) call in to pickup their mail.
<Ctrl-I>
Immediate mail Similar to the Crash status, but messages with
immediate status will be sent at the first
opportunity, ignoring all restrictions and
qualifications. If there is one or more messages with
immediate status to a system, all other messages
(except those with hold status) to that system will
be added to the mail packet.
USE THIS OPTION WITH CAUTION!
<Ctrl-L>
Lock Locks a message from further access. This is done by
setting the DOS attribute to read-only and adding a
special flag to the message text. FD and most other
utilities will ignore message files (.MSG) with
read-only attribute.
Messages with lock status cannot be removed by any of
the purge functions and will never be sent (or picked
up). FM can, however, renumber a folder containing
one or more messages with locked status.
<Ctrl-S>
Sent Indicates that the message has been sent or picked up
by the addressee. Once a message has been flagged as
sent, they cannot be sent or picked up by the
addressee.
<Ctrl-Z>
No status Clears all status bits.
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