Subj : Re: Silver Xpress limitations?
To   : David B. Smith
From : Charles Jennings
Date : Sat Jun 10 2000 03:38 am

Andrea Santos wrote the following to David B. Smith, and I quote (in part):

->> After downloading an OPX packet via the Door, I tried to make offline
->> configuration work.  The menu option resulted in my being told that
->> the
->> funcion wasn't available, and also told that the function usually -is-
->> available if one downloads an OPX packet via the door, which is what I
->> did of course.

 AS> The last version of Maximus that Silver Xpress directly supported was
 AS> 2.x. The Door will work with some adjustments with Max 3.x but a few
 AS> options were lost.  One was Vacation mail and since that was
 AS> generally handled offline, it's possible that offline mail
 AS> configuration may not be available.  You may wish to check with
 AS> other sysops running Maximus.

   I am not a SysOp but a user on a Max 3.01 BBS.  My understanding
is that SX and Maximus don't agree on the message numbering system
or the lack of it.  Anyway, you very likely will not be able to
change message areas selections via offline configuration.  I can't
on the BBS I use but it has many message areas.  If you have a
small number of message areas you might give it a try.  If it
doesn't work it will mess up your online selection of areas to
download and you will have to reset them online.

  I don't do a lot of offline configuration but I think most of the
remainder of the options should work as long as there are allowed by
the SysOp.  Take a look at the configuration on the SysOp's end.
You should be able to enable the other options.  I.e. You can
enable or disable file requests and set the limit on the number of
files downloaded at each logon.

    Good luck,
      Charles

P.S.  To Andrea:  Did you ever get an answer from Hector on that error
      message?

.... I need an offline chocolate reader for NESTLE.QWK
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