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- C86Net Mail Handling
- --------------------
- You may send Mail to other systems both locally and, possibly, long distance
- from this system. In order to do this, you must first .goto Mail (if you're
- not there already). The command is
-
- .<E>nter <N>et-message
-
- You will then be asked for destination system. An empty C/R here aborts the
- message, while a question mark ('?') will print out a list of systems that are
- currently on the net; this is a convenience in case you don't quite know the
- spelling of a system's net name or can't remember.
-
- ******NOTE: Recipient's name for net mail CAN NOT be checked. Therefore,
- be VERY VERY careful when spelling the recipient's name. Mail to the 'sysop'
- of another system works, too. You will* be told after the next successful
- net session with that system if your Mail> didn't have a recipient. If it did,
- then you'll hear nothing. If there was no recipient, you will have Mail> from
- Citadel stating that fact.
-
- In order to use the networking capabilities of Citadel AT ALL, you must
- acquire permission from the sysop. Leave mail to 'Sysop' to request
- permission if you don't seem to yet have it.
-
- You may also cause a non-network Mail> message to become a network Mail>
- message simply by touching 'N' at the entry cmd: prompt of Message Entry; you
- will be prompted for the system to send the Mail> to. If you fail to type in
- a correct node, you will not lose your message, but the message won't be
- netted anywhere.
-
- Domains are supported in ^variantname for both implicit and explicit
- routing. "Implicit" just means the system will use the domain system to
- deliver your Mail. If you can't seem to send net Mail to some node which
- you know is out there, and you happen to know the domain the system resides
- in (most net messages should in fact display the domain the system resides
- in), you can explicitly specify the domain of the system you're shooting
- for by using the .EN command and replying to the system name prompt with
-
- systemname _ domainname
-
- or, if you don't like underscores, you can use a period.
-
- systemname.domainname
-
- For example, if you were on some other system and wanted to get to send
- Mail to this system, you could simply type in
-
- ^nodename _ ^nodedomain
-
- and in most cases your Mail would eventually get to this system.
-
- You may use the <W>ho Else option of Mail> in conjunction with
- the network. If you want to send a copy of your Mail, whether or not the
- Mail is meant for another system or for a user on ^nodename, to someone on
- another system, simply access <W>ho Else as usual ('W' at the entry cmd:
- prompt), and when asked for Who Else, type "user @ system name". ^nodename
- will notice the "@" and attempt to identify the name of the system following
- the "@". If it can't, your Who Else will be rejected; otherwise, a copy of
- the Mail> will be delivered to the user on that system. You can explicitly
- designate the domain of the target system in Who Else.
-
- Finally, there is an alternative to the .Enter Net command. Instead, you
- can use the <E>nter single stroke command, and when prompted for a recipient,
- type "user @ system name". Just as noted in the paragraph on <W>ho Else,
- if system name can be identified, the Mail will be delivered to the named
- person on that system. This is more of a convenience option unless you find
- you have a message in your Held buffer which needs to be sent to someone on
- another system, in which case this option becomes necessary. You can use
- domain designations here, too.
-
-
- %ADVANCED Back to the advanced commands help menu.
- %HELPOPT Get a list of all help files in the system.
- %DOMAINS What are domains in C86Net, anyways?
- %MAINHELP First level of help system.
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