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5.4 REVIEWING MAIL
Mail can be reviewed through one of the five mail reviewing options or as it arrives.
When a new message arrives, E-Mail will switch to the Reviewing Mail mode, the screen will clear and the new message will be
displayed.
The five Review options include:
Review ALL mail,
Review CATAGORIZED mail,
Review RESPONSE REQUIRED mail, Review NOTES,
Review UNREAD mail.
Below is an example of what it is like to recei ve a message.
Suppose Dunn's boss sent him his most recent response required message. After calling on the Review RESPONSE REQUIRED option, Dunn
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To : DUNN Date: 4/01/83
From: BOSS Time: 11:44
Got your ridiculous demand for a raise.
Showed it around; received uproarious
laughte~ Consider yourself out of a job.
Sincerely yours. April Fool's Day, 1983.
[I1mmediate response [R1esponse required [DELJete
Category [1-71 ~ [N1ext message [W1rite message to file toward [F1ront or (E1nd [Q1uit WHICH? r 1
We call the material at the top of the screen the 'header'. The header tells who sent the message and when it was recei ved. The material between the lines is known as the 'window'. In this case the entire message is short enough to fit into one window (this isn't always the case). The information at the bottom of the screen is called the 'footer'.
The prompt at the bottom of the screen shows you what your options are and how the message is currently classified. Your entries are denoted by the contents of the brackets ([ ]). If, for example, you wanted to
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delete a message, your entry would be DEL.
Each of the response-required options is described below.
[DEL]ete
To delete a message that you are looking at in the Reviewing Mail mode, simply strike the DELETE key on your keyboard. After a brief delay, the message will be erased. E-Mail will continue with the Review sequence that you selected unless there are no remaining messages of the type you were reviewing. In that case, you would be returned to the Waiting for Mail mode.
---NOTE---The D key will not delete messages. You have to use the DELETE key. E-Mail was programmed that way in order to make accidental erasure more difficult.
---WARNING---If two people enter E-Mail as the same User and try to delete one of that User's messages at the same time, other messages may also be damaged.
Ca tegory [1-7]
If you choose to categorize a message, press any of the category numbers (1-7) while the
message is under review. From then on you can review this message, or any other message of
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its category, through the Review CATEGORIZED mail option in the Waiting for Mail mode.
Presumably, you will use the numbers as some kind of code. Once you've decided how you will use the seven categories, you'll probably want to make note of your categorization and keep it in a safe place.
Toward [F]ront or [E]nd
Although most messages you send and receive will probably be short, some will have more lines than the screen can accommodate. When a message is first displayed, the first ful of it will be shown. To see the next screen-ful, strike E. The bottom two lines of the first screen-will be the top two lines of the second screen, and so forth. If you want to see the beginning of a message again, strike F.
[I]mmediate response
If you ever feel the need to respond immediately to a message under review, enter I to begin the process. E-Mail would move to the 8end Mail mode and prepare to send a return message to the author of the message under review. Moreover, you would not enter any name.
E-Mail, knowing who sent the original message, would di rect the immediate response to that person automatically.
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After sending your response, you would be returned to the Reviewing Mail mode; the
original message would be displayed on-screen.
[N]ext message
Strike an N. E-Mail will move to the next message in the category you are reviewing.
When you reach the end of the messages awaiting review in anyone category, you'll be returned to the Waiting for Hail mode.
[Q]uit
Strike Q and you'll be returned to the Wai ting for Hail mode.
You may decide that you do not want to review all the messages at once. The [Q]uit option is the simplest way to get out of the
reviewing process. However, once you begin reviewing messages the Reviewing mode assumes that you are going to review all messages; it does not know if you have quit in the middle.
Thus, it may not be aware that there are unread messages; you have to remember that yourself and
read those messages later under the Review
Unread Mail option.
[R]esponse required
When a response required message is first received, the response required field [] is filled with NO. Once you look at the message,
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you can change the NO to a YES or the YES to a NO by striking R. Try it a few times in a row, and you'll see that YES and NO flip back and forth, or 'toggle'.
All messages that have YES in the response-required field will be selected when you choose to review response required mail.
[W]rite message to file
You can send a copy of a message to a file or to the printer (HiNet spooler). After you strike a W in the Reviewing Mail mode, you will see the messages below.
Write Message to File Module:
Please ente r the fi le na me.
Use LST: for the printer.
Just hit <CR> to quit.
Fi le: [ ]
If at this point you strike <CR), you will be returned to the message you were looking at.
If you enter LST: and then <CR), a copy of the message will be sent to the printer. Otherwise, enter the name of a CP/M file and <CR). E-Mail will check the file name you have given. You will then see one of the messages below.
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File exists. Write over it? [y/n] [ ] Sorry, but you may not use the
Mail Partition for this file.
Sending message to <file name>.
The first and third messages should be clear. The second always refers to the HiNet partition that is used to store messages and User information. It cannot be used for any other purpose. In fact, if you look at it with STAT, it will always appear full.
5.5 FATAL ERRORS
A fatal error is an error which E-Mail cannot correct. When a fatal error occurs, you will see one of the messages below and you will be returned to CP/M. Follow ing each set of error messages are descriptions of what the errors mean and what might be done about them.
1. Can't find INDEX.ML
This error could be due to: 1) the Mail
partition is not assigned to the B dd ve or 2) some of the Mail Partition has been corrupted.
2. Can't find MSG.ML See 1 above.
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3. Confused by coJJUDarX:1 line See 1 above.