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The Blue Wave Mail Door/QuickBBS
Version 1.00
Common Questions and Answers
This text file is simply meant to answer questions that I frequently
receive, and may save you some time and expense of having them answered
through Netmail. The Blue Wave Mail Door is a very complex program, but
is designed to be as easy to use and understandable as possible. For
full details on the door's operation, you should carefully read
BWMAIL.DOC, enclosed with the distribution archive.
Q: I'm thoroughly confused on the difference between FORCED message
areas through the Override editor and FORCED message areas through
the User File editor. What's the difference?
A: Quick Description of Message Area Override FORCED Areas (I will
call them Globally forced areas from now on):
1) Globally forced areas cannot be turned off by the user.
2) A user MUST have the security needed to read the area before
it will become forced upon that user.
3) Globally forced areas affect every user that enters the door.
Description of UserFile FORCED Areas:
1) Individually forced areas cannot be turned off by the user.
2) If an area is FORCED on a particular user, that area will
be active WHETHER OR NOT THE USER ACTUALLY HAS READ ACCESS TO
THE MESSAGE AREA.
3) Individually forced areas affect only the user that you
activate message areas for. Others are not affected.
Q: The user online has TTY graphics enabled. Why am I getting color
on the local console? Are they getting ANSI color too?
A: No, the door will always display color on the local screen (unless
the -MONO command line switch is used). The remote user will
not get the ANSI and/or AVATAR sequences unless they are enabled.
Q: I want to use The Blue Wave Offline Reader to read packets on my
local machine. What is the best or easiest way to download a mail
packet through the door?
A: Reading mail through the reader is especially handy if you are
running DESQview. You can use the reader (which is DESQview aware)
to read your mail packets in one window (or on another machine)
while the BBS stays online in another window.
You can very easily build a mail bundle in a nightly maintenance
event, or make a small batch file that will download your mail on
demand.
There are several configuration options that make the door very
flexible for use in local mode. You should first make sure that
"Keep Old DL Packets" in BWUTILS Options and Toggles Editor is
turned ON. Then, in the Directories and FilePaths manager, define
the door's LOCAL UPLOAD, LOCAL DOWNLOAD, and LOCAL WORK directories
to have the same drive and path as your *reader's* paths. Doing
this will allow you to build mail bundles directly into your
reader's download directory without having to move them around, or
having a remote user come online and wiping out your mail bundle.
Running the door in local/automatic download mode is very simple.
You should first sign into the door through QuickBBS and select the
message areas that you would like to "download". Then, a very
simple command line will cause the door to automatically build a
bundle and exit back to the calling batch file (or to DOS, depending
on how the door was invoked). The command line:
BWMAIL /K1 /D
will put the door into AutoDownload Mode (no command prompting), and
load User #1's record out of QBBS's USERS.BBS. There is absolutely no
need for a EXITINFO.BBS file when running in local mode, but ONLY if
there is a user number after the /K switch. [/K1 will load the
first user record out of USERS.BBS, which is normally the sysop].
If you have replies to upload, place the reader-generated *.NEW file
into your "local upload directory", and execute "BWMAIL /K1 /U".
Everything is now done!