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- The Blue Wave Mail Door/RemoteAccess
- Version 1.00
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- 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.
-
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-
- 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 RemoteAccess 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:
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- BWMAIL /K1 /D
-
- will put the door into AutoDownload Mode (no command prompting), and
- load User #1's record out of RA'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!
-