Subj : Pointers
To   : MONICA NEUFELD
From : KEN HRYNCHUK
Date : Thu Feb 05 2004 04:03 am

MONICA NEUFELD wrote to MILES MAXTED on 02-01-04 14:47:

 -=> Miles Maxted wrote to Monica Neufeld on 02-02-04 05:37 <=-

 MN> Is it possible to set the pointers on conferences in Fidonet with your
 MN> offline mail reader?  I already know how to add or drop a conference.

 MM> How do you do that ?  Is there some sort of command scripting that
 MM> is available for managing one's Maximus messages and echo tags ?

 MN> I'm not familiar with Maximus at all.  As I mentioned, you can add or
 MN> drop a conference by using your offline mail reader.  The message,
 MN> itself, can be blank because no one is going to see it.  In the To:
 MN> field of your offline reader, type WCMAIL; then the subject can be
 MN> either ADD or DROP.  Then upload your packet to the bulletin board.

According to DOOR.ID (found in MM's "work" folder, when a packet is
open), WCMAIL 5.4 supports the RESET command, and, IIRC, older versions
of WCMAIL will, too. RESET -10 should set your pointers 10 messages back
from current, and automatically subscribe you to the echo, if you aren't
already subscribed. DOOR.ID can be useful in determining a mail door's
capabilities.

   Ken

 
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