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Silver Xpress Flex Select <tm> Mail Bundling Options

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) What is FLEX SELECT?
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) What is FLEX ASSISTANT?
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) Getting all new mail,
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) Getting just your direct mail,
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) Getting just the mail with the keywords you defined,
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) Getting the FIRST X amount of mail,
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) Getting the LAST X amount of mail,
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) Skipping mail in a certain forum,
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) Holding mail in a certain forum for the next mail scan,
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) Clearing your flex commands,
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) Storing your flex commands for future use,
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) Attach Files, Deleting Attached Files,
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) Other Flex Commands,
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What is Flex Select?

All QWK based mail door will only allow you to download all or none of the
new mail once it has completed the mail scan.

With Silver Xpress, you can choose exactly what mail you want to download
using special mail bundling commands called Flex Select <tm>.

At the FLEX prompt, the easiest flex command is A which says GET all the
mail shown in the scan table. Or you can type GO which says GET all the
mail currented defined by flex select mail bundling commands.  By default,
all your mail will be available for download.

But suppose you saw too much mail?  You may want to select some mail from
this forum, some mail from that forum, all the mail form this forum, the
last 50 from that forum, etc?  No Problem! Flex Select will allow you to do
just that!  No other QWK mail door has this FEATURE!


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What is Flex Assistant?

The Flex Select system is an advanced feature of Silver Xpress.  To assist
in the learning process, Silver Xpress has a feature to help you "size" the
amount of mail you want per forum. This is called the Flex Assistant.

When Flex Assistant is enabled by typing "ASSIST", Xpress will display each
mail forum one at a time and ask if you want to:

    A)  Get all your mail
    D)  Get the direct personal mail
    K)  Get the mail with keywords only
    P)  Get the personal mail (direct and keywords)
    S)  Skip the forum
    H)  Hold the forum mail until next time
    F)  Get the first X amount of mail
    L)  Get the last  X amount of mail

This will allow you to quickly use the mail bundling powers of Silver
Xpress to optimize mail retreival and minimize the size of your mail load.


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Getting all your Mail

When Silver Xpress first finishes the scanning for new mail, it will show
you a table showing the results of the scan.  It will display the total
amount of mail.  By default, all the mail will be available for bundling
and downloading.  If you simply type A or GO, all your mail will be
bundled.

Note, type GO says "Go get the mail I told you to get". So if you typed
some flex select mail bundling commands, the GO command will begin the
bundling process whereas A will ignore all your previous flex select
commands and get ALL the mail.


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Getting all your direct mail

If you have any direct mail available, you may type D, and Xpress will only
bundle the mail directly addressed to you.  Direct mail includes mail
address under your name and/or your alias name if the BBS allows for such
anonymous mail.


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Getting just the mail with the keywords you defined

Under the configuration section of Silver Xpress, you are allowed to
define a unlimited set of keywords or rules to "Program" xpress to
search for certain type of mail.  For instance, you can have Xpress
find all messages with the Subject "Silver Xpress".  This is called
keyword mail.  If Xpress finds any, you will see this in the keyword
column of the scan.  You can type K and Xpress will only bundle the
keyword mail.

Note, if you want to collect only your DIRECT MAIL and your KEYWORD MAIL
there is a special key "P" that you can type to collect your "PERSONAL"
mail.  Personal mail include direct and keyword mail.


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Getting the FIRST X amount of mail

There will be times when there is just too much mail to collect.  This is
particularily true for popular mail forums where you can find anywhere from
200-300 messages per day!  If this is too much for you, Xpress will allow
you to grab the FIRST X amount of new mail.  The syntax for this command
is:

       <forum>F<amount>

example:

  *F50               grab the first 50 messages in ALL areas
  20F10              grab the first 10 messages in area # 20
  'WINDOWS'F25       grab the first 25 messages in area 'WINDOWS'


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Getting the LAST X amount of mail

There will be times when there is just too much mail to collect.  This is
particularily true for popular mail forums where you can find anywhere from
200-300 messages per day!  If this is too much for you, Xpress will allow
you to grab the LAST X amount of new mail.  The syntax for this command
is:

       <forum>L<amount>

example:

  *L50               grab the last 50 messages in ALL areas
  20L10              grab the last 10 messages in area # 20
  'WINDOWS'L25       grab the last 25 messages in area 'WINDOWS'
  *l25 20 GO         grab the last 25 in all areas, except area 20 where
                     all mail will be grabbed.

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Skipping mail in a certain forum

There will be times when you may not be interested in collecting mail in
certain mail forums for the current mail scan.

Xpress will allow you to SKIP forums by using the minus character. This
will tell Xpress not to bother at all with the forum. This will also tell
Xpress to update your mail last read counters as well which means all the
mail in the forum will be be "SKIPPED".

examples:

  -50                skip area 50
  -'WINDOWS'         skip area 'WINDOWS'
  -*                 skip all AREAS!
  CLEAR              same as -*
  -* 20 GO           skip all areas, bundle all mail in area 20.


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Holding mail in a certain forum for the next mail scan

Holding mail is very similar to SKIPPING mail. However, your last read mail
counters are not updated.  This means the next time you do a mail scan, you
can pick up the mail you told Xpress to temporarily forget about.  To hold
a forum, use the H command.

examples:

  50H             hold area 50.
  'WINDOWS'H      hold area WINDOWS.
  *F50 20H 40H    Get first 50 in all, and hold areas 20 and 40.


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Clearing your flex commands

If you type any flex commands, you can clear the mail selected by type
the word CLEAR or -*.  Basically, this will tell Xpress too forget all
mail bundling commands, including the default of getting ALL mail.

Hence, if you use the CLEAR command, you must use a * to reselect all the
mail (or use the A command) or follow up with more flex commands.


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Storing your flex commands for future use

If you have a consistent set of flex commands that you like to use, you can
type the word SFLEX followed by your flex commands to save the flex
commands in your personal records.  You can then later use the GFLEX
commands to retrieve the stored FLEX commands.

example:

      SFLEX -* *F50 20 GO

      GFLEX

Summary of FLEX macro commands:

  SFLEX <flex> Save the current Flex command.
  GFLEX        Get the saved Flex command and apply it.
  DFLEX        Display the saved Flex command.
  EFLEX        Erase the saved Flex command.


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Attach Files, Deleting Attached Files

Xpress has the capability of attaching files to your mail packet. This
is done by the sysop or by a user who has sent you a file using the
Silver Xpress Mail Reader.

If any attached files are available, you will see the total number of
files and size at the bottom of the mail scan.  The following commands
are available to maintain the attach files:

  DFILE  Display any files attached to mail.
  EFILE  Erase a file attached to mail.


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Other Flex Commands,

There are other commands available you can use during FLEX Select:

    LIST    Display the Scan Table.
    TABLE   Same as LIST.
    MAIL    Show the amount of mail which will be bundled.
    SIZE    Same as MAIL but with BYTE totals shown.
    FLEX    Start the Flex Assistant.
    ASSIST  Same as FLEX.


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