RAMail Online Help

A brief description of the commands for RAMail are listed below. Some options
may be disabled if the sysop has chosen to do so.

(1) Bulletin Toggle
        This option will allow you to tell RAMail whether or not you wish
        to receive new bulletins in your mail packet.

(2) New Files Toggle
        This option will enable/disable the New Files Scan during packet
        creation.

(3) Packing Method
        This option allows you to choose which compression method you wish
        to use for your QWK/REP packets.

(A)NSI Toggle
        This option allows you to enable/disable ANSI graphics inside the
        RAMail door. Any change you make with this toggle will be restored
        when returned to the BBS.

(C)onference Select
        This option allows you to select which message areas you wish
        RAMail to look at when selecting mail to include in your mail
        packet. In addition, you can select what type of mail to receive,
        i.e. All new mail, mail addressed only to you or All, or mail
        addressed only to you. When an area is selected, you may also
        modify your last read pointer for that area as well as elect to
        receive messages that you have entered.

(D)ownload Mail
        This option will begin the process of extracting messages from the
        message bases according to your selections made in the (C)onference
        Selection option. If you have flagged any files while in the (F)ile
        Areas function (see below), those files will be sent with your
        packet as well. Upon completion of the message extraction, you
        will be prompted as to whether you wish to (C)ontinue the transfer,
        (G)oodbye after the transfer (logoff) or (A)bort the transfer.

(E)xpress Mail Run
        This option works in similar fashion to (D)ownload except that you
        will not be prompted with (C)ontinue, (G)oodbye, (A)bort. The packet
        will be created and then the transfer will begin immediately. Upon
        completion of the transfer, you will be logged off.

(F)ile Areas
        This is a function you might not expect to see in a mail door.
        Upon selecting this option from the menu, you will be shown a list
        of all available file areas to which you have access. Choosing one
        of the areas by number will begin the display of the list of
        files for that area. At the end of each screenful, you will see a
        prompt "More (Y/n), (F)lag, (U)nflag". By pressing [ENTER] or [Y]
        at this prompt, the listing will continue with the next screenful
        files. If you press [F], you will be prompted to enter the name of
        the file you wish to flag for download with your mail packet. You
        may only flag files one at a time, i.e. you can't enter more than
        one file name at the "Enter File Name to Flag" prompt. If you have
        previously flagged files that you wish to unflag, press [U] and
        enter the file name or enter (*) to unflag all files.

(G)oodbye (Logoff)
        This option will log you off of the BBS.

(H)elp
        This option will display this help file.

(L)ist New Mail
        This option will perform a message scan on all selected message areas
        displaying the number of messages above your last read marker.

(M)odify Pointers
        This option allows you to change the Last Read Pointer in all confer-
        ences simultaneously.

(N)ew Files
        This option will display all new files that have been posted since
        your last call to the BBS.

(P)age Sysop
        This option will signal the sysop that you wish to chat with him.
        If he is available, he will chat with you.
        
(Q)uit to BBS
        This option will exit the RAMail door and return you to the BBS.

(R)estore Pointers
        RAMail stores the condition of your Last Read Pointers when you do a
        download. Selecting this option will restore your pointers to the
        condition they were in before you did the download.

(S)ystem Info
        This option will display information about the BBS, i.e. Message
        Statistics and Last Caller information.

(T)ransfer Protocol
        This option will allow you to select your default transfer
        protocol that will be used in all packet transfers. Your choices are
        Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem and Ymodem-G.

(U)pload Replies
        This option will allow you to upload replies that you have written
        offline with your offline reader. The replies will be inserted
        into the BBS message bases. You can configure your conference choices
        offline by entering messages addressed to RAMAIL. In the Subject
        field, you would enter one of the following to specify what action
        RAMail should take:

        ADD     - Adds the conference and selects all mail
        ADD A   - Adds the conference and selects all mail
        ADD YA  - Adds the conference and selects mail addressed to you
                  and mail addressed to ALL
        ADD Y   - Adds the conference and selects mail addressed to you only
        DROP    - Removes the conference

        Any message text entered in a configuration message is disregarded.

A Note on Read Pointers:
        The Last Read pointers displayed during Conference Select reflect the
        highest message number that has been read in each particular message
        area. It has nothing to do with the number of messages there are in
        the area. For example, if your Last Read pointer for a conference is
        825, that does NOT mean there are 825 messages in that area! So,
        pointer setting is guess-work. This is due to the method RA uses for
        its message base and the problem cannot be overcome without extreme
        reorganization of the message base. RAMail could do this, but I don't
        think anyone wants to wait 30 minutes for a packet to be created!

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