Subj : winpoint: mailboxen aufnehman
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Mon Mar 18 2019 12:09:04

Hello August!

17.03.19 16:43:49, August Abolins wrote to all:

 AA> When reading a message, and click on a name in the HEADER that has an
 AA> "address" next to it, the nodelist browser pops up and provides details
 AA> of the correspending entry.  Very nice.  But there are two right-click
 AA> options:

 AA> In das adressbuch aufnehman 

Add to address book

 AA> In mailboxen aufnehman

Add to mailboxes

 AA> The 2nd one places the name + zon:net/node number in my list of contacts.
 AA> Very handy.

Errrrrrrm, it's the first one that does that :-))

 AA> But what does "mailboxen aufnehman" (mailbox pickup) actually do?

Adds the selected system to your mailboxes.

 AA> I select it, but I don't get any indication of what just happened.   

You're not looking in the right places :-)

Look in "Extras/Uplinks" and you should see a new entry in the "Systems" pane. 
Click the "Properties" button for the new entry and WinPoint should have filled 
in most of the details for you. However, it doesn't get them all correct but 
it's a simple matter of editing them manually. 

I'd never seen this feature before you mentioned it but, at first sight, I 
wondered what possible use could that be. Well, it actually answers a question 
I've been asking myself for a very long time - "How do I poll a Node other than 
my BossNode?" - and the answer to that is revealed when I click on the 
Down-Arrow to the right of the "Poll" button. In other words, not only does 
WinPoint add a new "Mailbox", it also adds the new "Mailbox" to the list of 
systems to poll.

Wow, this thing just gets better and better :-))

Many thanks for finding and reporting this.
 
Regards,
Martin

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 * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:250/1.1)

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