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Change Mail Packet Type

  Silver Xpress allows you to select the mail format for your reader. You
  may select the traditional OPX for powerful off-line reading or the more
  primitive QWK format for people hooked on the QWK mail format.  Please be
  in mind, you will lose alot of the power in Silver Xpress by using the
  QWK mail format.

    
O) Silver Xpress OPX Mail Format
    
K) QWK Mail Packet Format
    
M) QWK Mail Packet Options


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Silver Xpress OPX Mail Packets Type

   With this option, you can select the mail packet format called OPX.

   OPX is a powerful mail format invented by Santronics Software in 1988 as
   better alternative to the extremely primitive QWK mail format.

   OPX is the classic Silver Xpress Mail Format.  It is very powerful and
   offers more mail processing capabilities such as 100% Fido capability
   including net mail, echo mail, faxing and forms, longer TO, FROM and
   SUBJECT fields, larger MAIL creation, interactive offline configuration
   and much more.

   If you have the Silver Xpress Mail Reader, select the OPX mail format.
   You may also use the Silver Xpress Mail Reader for QWK mail packets
   created by other QWK mail systems as well.

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Silver Xpress QWK Mail Packets Type

   With this option, you can select the mail packet format called QWK
   invented by SparkWare.

   QWK started on PCBOARD systems as a very primitive mail format for
   off-line reading.  It is NOT compatible with FIDO mail.  It has short
   TO, FROM, and SUBJECT fields and quite often these fields are truncated.

   QWK is a primitive mail format, but is very popular because it is a
   simple and it is a free public domain format. Thus you will see QWK on
   many BBS systems.

   As an alternative to QWK, you should try the Silver Xpress OPX mail
   format.  OPX is very powerful and offers more mail processing
   capabilities such as net mail, faxing and forms, etc.

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