Address your request to 'FMail', 'AreaMgr' or 'AreaFix' (without quotes). Enter your password for AreaMgr on the subject line. In the body of the message to AreaMgr (with area FMAIL_HELP as an example) : FMAIL_HELP Connect area FMAIL_HELP FMAIL_HELP /R Connect area FMAIL_HELP and rescan all messages in the message base FMAIL_HELP /R=50 Connect area FMAIL_HELP and rescan at most 50 messages =FMAIL_HELP Rescan the connected area FMAIL_HELP without having to disconnect it first -FMAIL_HELP Disconnect area FMAIL_HELP %+ALL Connect all available areas %-ALL Disconnect all areas %COMPRESSION ZIP Change the compression method used for your mail to ZIP (or ARC/ZIP/LZH/PAK/ZOO/ARJ/NON(E)) %PASSWORD ABCDEF Change your AreaMgr password to ABCDEF (password should be at least 5 characters and at most 16 characters long) %PKTPWD QRSTUV Change your packet password to QRSTUV (password may be at most 8 characters long) %NOTIFY ON Turn NOTIFY messages on %NOTIFY OFF Turn NOTIFY messages off %HELP Request this message %LIST Request a list of areas available to you %BLIST Request a list of areas available to you in binary format (*.BCL file) %QUERY Request a list of areas for which you are active %UNLINKED Request a list of areas to which you are not connected %RESCAN Request a rescan of all new areas %RESCAN=50 Request a rescan of at most 50 messages per area for all new areas %PASSIVE Temporarily disable all areas. This means that you won't receive any echo mail anymore unless it is addressed to you personally (only if the sysop on this node has entered your name correctly in the Node Manager). You will still be allowed to send echo mail to this system in areas to which you are connected. %ACTIVE Make your node active again. %AUTOBCL 7 Request to receive a BCL file from FMail every 7 days. Use 0 if you don't want to receive BCL files anymore. See FMAIL.DOC for more information about this feature [---] Everything below the tear line is ignored You can also use the -H, -L, -Q and -U switches on the subject line.