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16 <H2><A NAME="s9">9.</A> <A HREF="usermanual_en.html#toc9">Mail.</A></H2>
18 <P>You can send and receive both personal mail and bulletins with DXSpider
21 <H2><A NAME="ss9.1">9.1</A> <A HREF="usermanual_en.html#toc9.1">The "directory" command.</A>
24 <P>To list mail you would use the <B>DIRECTORY</B> command. On its
25 own, this command will output the last ten messages received by the
26 node, either to or from yourself or bulletins such as "DX" and "ALL".
27 As with other commands you can display more by specifying a number
28 with the command. You should be aware that Spider will accept
29 these commands by separating with either a slash or a space, so
30 <EM>dir new</EM> and <EM>dir/new</EM> work in the same way.</P>
31 <P><B>Example:</B></P>
41 <P>Of course most of the time you will only want to list new mail sent
42 to you personally since your last login. However you might also like
43 to check for general mail received by the node. In fact if there is
44 new mail for you, the cluster will tell you when you login. You will
45 also be informed if new mail arrives for you during the time you are
47 Mail is not only sent to callsigns though. Mail can also be sent to
48 subjects like "all" or "local" or "dx" etc. You can treat these
49 bulletins in the same way as personal mail with the directory
51 <P><B>Examples:</B></P>
59 directory/from <call>
63 <P>The last option will only show mail from a callsign if it was sent to
64 you personally or was sent as a bulletin. There are some additional
65 commands and these can be found in the DXSpider Command Reference section.</P>
67 <H2><A NAME="ss9.2">9.2</A> <A HREF="usermanual_en.html#toc9.2">Reading mail.</A>
70 <P>The output of the <B>DIRECTORY</B> command could be something like
76 20735 2 ALL GW7SMV 21-Feb 1204Z REC 9E1S QSL TDY 50Mhz....
77 20823 308 UK G0HDB 22-Feb 2334Z Help - which district code?
78 20824 105 ALL W9AE 23-Feb 0349Z S0NY QSL address?
79 20825 2 UK G0LRJ 23-Feb 0806Z QSL REC LZ2CJ/1.CARD NO-750.
80 20858 2 ALL GW7SMV 24-Feb 0905Z REC S92DX QSL CARD TDY 50Mhz
81 20921 200 ALL GM4FDM 27-Feb 2203Z Trip to VP8
82 20949 375 ALL K0MN 27-Feb 0428Z ST0P cards are gd @ ARRL
83 20950 2 UK G0LRJ 28-Feb 0835Z QSL REC SV9/IZ0CKJ/P EU-187.
84 20987 569 ALL GD0TEP 1-Mar 1733Z Portable contests
85 21076 2 ALL G4AFJ 3-Mar 1743Z kh6nd/kh5 qsl received
86 21184-p 599 GW4HAT G0VGS 4-Mar 1518Z Re: Time
90 <P>The first column is the actual message number. If the message is a
91 personal one to you, you will see a letter 'p' after this number. If
92 the message has been read, there will be a '-' between the message
93 number and the 'p'. This only works for personal messages. The next
94 column shows the file size of the message. The third column shows the
95 address the message was sent to and the next column shows who sent it.
96 The rest is fairly self-explanatory.</P>
97 <P>Reading a message is as simple as typing read, followed by the
98 message number that you wish to read.</P>
99 <P><B>Example:</B></P>
107 <P>will read message number 25. However the mail will be displayed in it's
108 entirety unless you specify a page length. You can set your page length
109 to any number you like and when the message reaches that number of lines
110 you will get a prompt giving you options.</P>
111 <P><B>Example:</B></P>
121 <H2><A NAME="ss9.3">9.3</A> <A HREF="usermanual_en.html#toc9.3">Sending mail.</A>
124 <P>Sending mail is done in the time honoured way. First you specify
125 a recipient for the message, then you will be prompted for a subject.
126 Once you have done this you will be asked to type your message.
127 Please remember that there is no automatic word wrap, so unless you
128 are using a client that wraps lines automatically, remember to hit
129 return at the end of each line.</P>
130 <P><B>Example:</B></P>
135 Enter Subject (30 characters):
137 Enter Message /EX to send or /ABORT to exit
139 Just a quick note to say that I can make Thursday after all. The
140 appointment I had has cancelled so we are go!
146 <P>At this point you can either hit return and enter /ex to send the
147 message or use /abort at any time to abort it. You can now display
148 the message in the normal way. There are several send options and
149 these are listed in the Command Set section. These include sending
150 mail to several recipients and asking for a return receipt.</P>
153 <H2><A NAME="ss9.4">9.4</A> <A HREF="usermanual_en.html#toc9.4">Replying to mail.</A>
156 <P>If mail is addressed to you or to a bulletin address, you can use the
157 <B>REPLY</B> command to reply to it. Using this command, the
158 subject will be automatically set for you as "Re: subject", whatever
159 the subject was. </P>
160 <P><B>Example:</B></P>
169 <H2><A NAME="ss9.5">9.5</A> <A HREF="usermanual_en.html#toc9.5">Deleting mail</A>
172 <P>To delete a message, you use the <EM>delete</EM> command.
173 You can only delete messages sent to or received by yourself.
174 Bulletins are dealt with automatically or by the sysop.</P>
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