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                       Using the Personal Mail Scan feature


     GoldED can scan for your  personal mail (messages addressed to  the
     name defined with the USERNAME keyword).

     NOTE:  Personal  mail  scan  is  a  very  new  feature  in   GoldED
     (introduced in 2.50.Beta4)  and is likely  to have plenty  of rough
     edges, quirks and  bugs. The current  implementation is not  set in
     stone. Please give me your comments on any problems or  suggestions
     for improvements.

     The personal mail  scan feature can  be activated in  two different
     ways:

        1. Manually from the arealist using the personal mail scan  menu
           on Alt-P (keycommand AREAscanpm). The menu contains the  same
           items as the regular Alt-S  scanning menu. Here you can  scan
           all,  marked,  current,  matching  or  unscanned  areas   for
           personal mail.

        2. Automatically using the PERSONALMAIL keyword with the Startup
           parameter.

     If personal mail scan is  activated from the menu in  the arealist,
     then  when  the  scan  is  completed,  GoldED shows a window with a
     simple statistic  about the  personal mail  (xx mails  found in  yy
     areas). The window will go away after a few seconds or by  pressing
     a key.

     Areas  with  personal  mail  will  be  marked  with a '+' after the
     message count  in the  Msgs column.  In the  statusline, the  exact
     number of personal mails is shown  for each area when you move  the
     selection bar.

     To remove the personal mail  mark from an area without  reading the
     mail, re-scan the area with the normal area scan (Alt-S).

     To read personal mail, simply enter an area marked '+'. GoldED will
     automatically switch to  "Read Marked" mode  so that you  only read
     the personal mail. When you exit the area after reading your  mail,
     GoldED remembers the  original lastread and  sets it back  where it
     was (this  will only  work when  in Read  Marked mode with personal
     mail).

     You can automatically sort areas  with personal mail to the  top of
     the arealist by adding the sort  spec 'P' in front of your  current
     AREALISTSORT string. Example: AREALISTSORT PTUE.

     Only  messages  after  the  lastread  are scanned. The scan ignores
     messages that are marked received.

     The keywords AREAPMSCAN, AREAPMSCANEXCL and AREAPMSCANINCL work for
     personal mail like the  AREASCAN, AREASCANEXCL and AREASCANINCL  do
     for normal mail scans.

     The PERSONALMAIL  keyword specifies  options for  the personal mail
     scan feature. With it you can tell GoldED to automatically scan for
     personal mail at startup and to look for mail to all your USERNAMES
     (if you have more than one spelling of your name for example).

     Personal  mail  scan  is  currently  only  implemented for the JAM,
     Squish, Hudson, Goldbase and PCBoard msgbase formats. Personal mail
     scan  support  for  *.MSG  and  Ezycom  will  be  added in a future
     release.