You can send and receive both personal mail and bulletins with DXSpider -quite easily.
- -To list mail you would use the DIRECTORY command. On its -own, this command will output the last ten messages received by the -node, either to or from yourself or bulletins such as "DX" and "ALL". -As with other commands you can display more by specifying a number -with the command. You should be aware that Spider will accept -these commands by separating with either a slash or a space, so -dir new and dir/new work in the same way.
-Example:
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-directory
-directory/20
-directory 20
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-Of course most of the time you will only want to list new mail sent -to you personally since your last login. However you might also like -to check for general mail received by the node. In fact if there is -new mail for you, the cluster will tell you when you login. You will -also be informed if new mail arrives for you during the time you are -logged in. -Mail is not only sent to callsigns though. Mail can also be sent to -subjects like "all" or "local" or "dx" etc. You can treat these -bulletins in the same way as personal mail with the directory -command.
-Examples:
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-directory/new
-directory/own
-directory/own/10
-directory/all
-directory/from <call>
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-The last option will only show mail from a callsign if it was sent to -you personally or was sent as a bulletin. There are some additional -commands and these can be found in the DXSpider Command Reference section.
- -The output of the DIRECTORY command could be something like -this.
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-dir
- 20735 2 ALL GW7SMV 21-Feb 1204Z REC 9E1S QSL TDY 50Mhz....
- 20823 308 UK G0HDB 22-Feb 2334Z Help - which district code?
- 20824 105 ALL W9AE 23-Feb 0349Z S0NY QSL address?
- 20825 2 UK G0LRJ 23-Feb 0806Z QSL REC LZ2CJ/1.CARD NO-750.
- 20858 2 ALL GW7SMV 24-Feb 0905Z REC S92DX QSL CARD TDY 50Mhz
- 20921 200 ALL GM4FDM 27-Feb 2203Z Trip to VP8
- 20949 375 ALL K0MN 27-Feb 0428Z ST0P cards are gd @ ARRL
- 20950 2 UK G0LRJ 28-Feb 0835Z QSL REC SV9/IZ0CKJ/P EU-187.
- 20987 569 ALL GD0TEP 1-Mar 1733Z Portable contests
- 21076 2 ALL G4AFJ 3-Mar 1743Z kh6nd/kh5 qsl received
- 21184-p 599 GW4HAT G0VGS 4-Mar 1518Z Re: Time
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-The first column is the actual message number. If the message is a -personal one to you, you will see a letter 'p' after this number. If -the message has been read, there will be a '-' between the message -number and the 'p'. This only works for personal messages. The next -column shows the file size of the message. The third column shows the -address the message was sent to and the next column shows who sent it. -The rest is fairly self-explanatory.
-Reading a message is as simple as typing read, followed by the -message number that you wish to read.
-Example:
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-read 25
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-will read message number 25. However the mail will be displayed in it's -entirety unless you specify a page length. You can set your page length -to any number you like and when the message reaches that number of lines -you will get a prompt giving you options.
-Example:
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-set/page 20
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-Sending mail is done in the time honoured way. First you specify -a recipient for the message, then you will be prompted for a subject. -Once you have done this you will be asked to type your message. -Please remember that there is no automatic word wrap, so unless you -are using a client that wraps lines automatically, remember to hit -return at the end of each line.
-Example:
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-send m0azm
-Enter Subject (30 characters):
-See you Thursday
-Enter Message /EX to send or /ABORT to exit
-Hi Ian,
-Just a quick note to say that I can make Thursday after all. The
-appointment I had has cancelled so we are go!
-Cheers
-Ian
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-At this point you can either hit return and enter /ex to send the -message or use /abort at any time to abort it. You can now display -the message in the normal way. There are several send options and -these are listed in the Command Set section. These include sending -mail to several recipients and asking for a return receipt.
- - -If mail is addressed to you or to a bulletin address, you can use the -REPLY command to reply to it. Using this command, the -subject will be automatically set for you as "Re: subject", whatever -the subject was.
-Example:
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-reply 2500
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-To delete a message, you use the delete command. -You can only delete messages sent to or received by yourself. -Bulletins are dealt with automatically or by the sysop.
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