PMS

Command

PMS -- Access the integral PMS

Synopsis

PMS

Description

The PMS command connects the user to Xrouter's integral PMS (Personal Mail Server). This is a no-frills message storage and retrieval system which can be used to exchange messages between users and sysops.

The PMS generates and understands SIDs (System IDentifiers), MIDs (Message IDentifiers) and BIDs (Bulletin IDentifiers), hierarchical addressing, bulletins, MBL forwarding and reverse forwarding, so it can also be used to exchange private mail and bulletins with a full-service Bulletin Board System (BBS). In fact it is a mini-BBS in its own right, as users may leave bulletins for others to read.

If PMSCALL is defined in XROUTER.SYS, users may perform an AX25 level 2 connect directly to the PMSCALL instead of using the PMS command. (PMSCALL must not not be the same as NODECALL)

If PMSALIAS and a suitable PMSQUAL are also defined, users may connect directly to the PMS from another node, using NetRom.

The PMS has its own simple commands as follows:

        B[ye]           Disconnect from the PMS.
        H[elp]          Display list of commands.
        K[ill] <n>      Kill message number n.
        L[ist]          List messages.
        Q[uit]          Disconnect from the PMS
        R[ead] <n>      Read message number n.
        S[end]          Send a message to sysop.

If the user accessed the PMS using the "PMS" command, he will be returned to Xrouter's main command prompt upon exit, otherwise he will be disconnected.

Message status markers:

Status ' ' indicates unread "local" private mail.
Status '$' indicates unforwarded non-local mail.
Status 'F' indicates forwarded non-local mail.
Status 'R' indicates local private mail that has been read.

Note

If a command alias, or an application, with the name "PMS" is defined, it takes priority over the internal PMS.

Availability

All users.

See Also

PMS Server