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INFOSHEET: Mountain Mail


Here's a list of the features of Mountain Mail:

    [*]  Unlimited number of information servers. Every information
         server can be 'sold' to a business customer. The 'owner' of an
         information server is charged for:
                - Each local information request
                - Each out-of-system information request
                - Each local file request
                - Each out-of-system file request
         The information server can be configured to UUENCODE file
         attachments on command or always.
         Setting up a information server is nothing more then changing a
         forum header (more on that later).
         (Try it? Send a message to Info@STR or info@sterbbs.nl)

    [*]  Automatic E-Mail responder. This is one feature your users will
         love. Every user can activate the Automatic E-Mail responder.
         The system will reply to every message send to that user with a
         default message or with a message that user entered (different
         charges). When the user returns from holiday, the system will
         generate a list of names and dates when it replied.
         Also, the system will send an "I'm Back" message to everybody
         who got the "I'm away" message (optional).

    [*]  Automatic E-Mail Copy. Activating the Auto-forward option of
         The Major BBS has one big drawback: You loose the original
         message. Mountain Mail will COPY each incoming message to a
         specified address. This address can be another user, a forum or
         any MHS Address (Internet, MajorNet or FAX). That's right: FAX!
         With the Fax/Online option of Galacticomm installed you can
         even copy your E-mail to a fax-address.

    [*]  E-Mail FAX: Mountain Mail integrates the Fax/Online option of
         Galacticomm into the message base. This means the Fax/Online
         option gets a MHS address. Sending a fax is nothing more then
         writing a message to "FAX: User@phone number". This can be done
         either online or offline. The text of the fax message begins on
         the cover page. This means no waste of paper anymore. Small
         notes don't use two pages anymore.

    [*]  Full Screen Forum Selector: Using the famous Full Screen
         Selector used in TFLE, your users can select the forum of
         their interest. Using Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P they can sroll
         through the list of avialable forums. Different kind of forums
         can have different colors (more on that later). Full
         RIP-interface (no ANSI code). Even ASCII users only have to
         type one letter to select a new forum.

    [*]  Full Screen Quickscan Configuration: Using the famous Full
         Screen Selector used in TFLE, your users can configure their
         quickscan in a snap. Using Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P they can page
         forwards and backwards in the list of forums. Hitting the
         spacebar will add or remove the forum to or from their
         quickscan. When adding a forum the 'Read Pointer' is set to a
         number of days back. This number of days is configurable in
         level 4 configuration but can be overruled on a forum by forum
         base. Using the < and > key instead of the spacebar will set
         the 'read pointer' to the beginning or end of the forum.
         RIP-users will get a full RIP interface (no ANSI) so adding or
         removing forums is just a mouseclick. ASCII-user only need two
         keystrokes to add or remove a forum.

    [*]  Default Quickscan: Don't bombard new users with a zillion
         messages when they first use the forums. Just use Mountain Mail
         to create a default Quickscan. It's pretty easy to do: just
         create a ghost account and configure the quickscan of that
         account. Every new user on your system will get that quickscan
         after the 'read pointers' are set using the above feature.

    [*]  Forum Colors: Let your users see you have different kind of
         Forums by using forum colors. Upto 14 different colors can be
         used for Local Forums, MajorNet Forums, Internet Forums, and so
         on..

    [*]  Sorted Forums: Using the above features you can configure how
         the Quickscan configuratuon or forum selector presents the
         forums to your users: sorted on Name, Description or Color.

    [*]  Forum Groups: This one is VERY powerfull. As a sysop you can
         define several Forum Groups. Every single forum can be part of
         upto five different groups. The forum groups are showing up in
         the Quickscan configuration. With one single keystroke an user
         can add or remove all the forums within a forum group to or
         from his Quickscan. Create Forum Groups like 'MajorNet',
         'Internet', 'Local', 'Adult', 'Windows' and so on. Remember,
         every forum an be part of five groups. Every Forum Group has a
         Forum Group Key. If specified the user must have that key to be
         able to see the group.

    [*]  Security: Mountain Mail will (configurable) save all your forum
         headers at cleanup to a backup file. If there goes something
         wrong with your GALMSG.DAT file and you backup fails to, you
         don't have to create all those forums again.

    [*]  Real Time Forum Manager (RTFM): Just like MailLink, MG/I and
         the normal Forums, you can configure several features of
         Mountain Mail with specific phreases in the forum header.
         However, you don't have to change them online. You don't even
         have to take your system down to change them. Using the Real
         Time Forum Manager, changing forum headers has never been so
         easy. Change the message lifetime, credit consumption rate, MHS
         Address, Forum Color, Forum Groups and so on with just a couple
         of keystrokes.
         RTFM create a file that Mountain Mail will automaticly import
         at system up.

    [*]  The Global Address Book: If you're connecting your system to
         any mail-network or if you're using Fax/Online, you can't do
         without The Global Address Book. This is all you want AND MORE!
         Here's a (partial) list of the Address Book features:
            -  Works everywhere on your system
            -  Private Address Book for each user
            -  Charge credits for adding records to private address book
            -  Charge each time the user uses his private address book
            -  Public Address Book for all users
            -  Charge for adding records to public address book
            -  Charge each time the user uses the public address book
            -  Records added to the Public Address Book have to be
               approved by the 'book keeper'
            -  Give user 'Royalty Credits' on approval of Public Record
            -  Configurable global character
            -  Global Command (defined by sysop) to grab the address of
               a forum or E-Mail message
            -  Global Command (defined by sysop) to add an address to
               address book
            -  Up to six network-fields (defined by sysop) and five
               memo-fields for each record
            -  Each field has its own global command (defined by sysop)
            -  Variable length Btrieve file (empty fields are not stored)
            -  Address Book has its own MHS-Address (defined by sysop) so
               users can access their address book offline
            -  All Full Screen Data Entry for ease of use
            -  Dynamically allocated FSD screens (you will not see the
               fields, you're not using)
            -  A lot of text variables to use in your menu's or help screens
            -  More, more, more, much more..................

        The Global Address Book is so easy to use, you'll wonder how you
        could 'work' in the past without it. Here's a little example.
        It's just the way how it works on our system. Note: you can
        change almost everything to your needs. On our system we've
        configured The Global Address Book for five mail networks and a
        fax-service. When reading a message in the forums or in E-Mail,
        we use "/Grab" to steal the address of the writer of the message
        we're reading. If there is an address inside a message that we
        want to remember we use "/Grab <address>". The address is moved
        to one of the ten temporary places (valid until cleanup). When
        we're done reading messages, we go to The Global Address menu.
        Here's a menu option to process the 'grab list'. A FSD screen
        pops up where we can enter a keyword, the full name of the
        addressee. With the spacebar we select if the stolen address is
        from Internet, Majornet, Fido, WorldLink, NetAccess or and
        Fax-number. We also define if the record should be private or
        public. With SAVE a new record is stored. From that moment on we
        can retrieve information from that record anywhere from the
        system. Want to send an internet message to the president
        (assuming you have a record with his address)? Go to the E-Mail,
        select (W)rite and at the next prompt type "/Internet
        President". Want to send him a fax? Just type "/Fax President".
        (again, all commands and the global character are configurable).
        Great! But what if you're using Quickmail to write messages? A:
        Easy! The Global Address Book has its own MHS address
        (configurable). Want to send an internet message to the
        president? Just send your message to "AB: President!Internet"
        (works online too). Want to send him a fax? Just address your
        message to: "AB: President!FAX".

We probably forget some options. One things is for sure: when developing
Mountain Mail: configurable has been the keyword. No text hard coded,
it's all in the message file. No colors hard coded, it's all in the
message file. You can even customize the full screen selector by using
the supplied TextVars.


If you have any question about Mountain Mail, feel free to send E-Mail
to Sysop@STR or (preferable) to our MajorNet support forum
(ML@MAJORBBS.DEV.MR). If you don't want promotional talk but want to
here some 'customers', feel free to contact our beta sites (sysop@DWN
and Sysop@ANX).

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