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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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- ) Return to Silver Xpress.
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- What is Flex Select?
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- All QWK based mail doors will only allow you to download all or none of
- the new mail once it has completed the mail scan.
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- With Silver Xpress, you can choose exactly what mail you want to download
- using special mail bundling commands called Flex Select <tm>.
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- 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 currently defined by flex select mail bundling commands. By default,
- all of your mail will be available for download.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- When Flex Assistant is enabled by typing "ASSIST", Xpress will display each
- mail forum one at a time and ask if you want to:
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- 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
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- This will allow you to quickly use the mail bundling powers of Silver
- Xpress to optimize mail retrieval and minimize the size of your mail load.
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- Getting all your Mail
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- When Silver Xpress finishes the scanning for new mail, it will display
- 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 of your mail will be
- bundled.
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- 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
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- 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
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- Under the configuration section of Silver Xpress, you are allowed to
- define an unlimited set of keywords or rules to "Program" Xpress to
- search for certain types 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.
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- 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 includes direct and keyword mail.
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- Getting the FIRST X amount of mail
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- 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
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- <forum>F<amount>
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- example:
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- *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
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- 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
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- <forum>L<amount>
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- example:
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- *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
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- There will be times when you may not be interested in collecting mail in
- certain mail forums for the current mail scan.
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- 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".
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- examples:
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- -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
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- 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.
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- 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
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- If you type any flex commands, you can clear the mail selected by typing
- the word CLEAR or -*. Basically, this will tell Xpress to forget all
- mail bundling commands, including the default of getting ALL mail.
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- 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
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- 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 later use the GFLEX commands
- to retrieve the stored FLEX commands.
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- example:
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- SFLEX -* *F50 20 GO
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- Summary of FLEX macro commands:
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- DFILE Display any files attached to mail.
- EFILE Erase a file attached to mail.
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- Other Flex Commands,
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- There are other available commands you can use during FLEX Select:
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- 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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