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 In article <835358792_OASIS_@jaubrey.demon.co.uk>
  jaubrey@jaubrey.demon.co.uk (James Aubrey) said:-

>I have managed(after months of sweat and toil) to get Oasis 3.5 to work, a few
>probs though, can't receive mail, whil online I'm told I've got mail(I sent it
>myself from Cix) but when I go to postbox within Oasis I'm told there is no
>unread mail. 

who does the incoming mail say its for ??? And does your mailbox have 
the _same_ name ???

sometime I get mail coming in for 'phil' and my mailbox is called 
'phil4' and hence when I open the mail it says there isn't any.

If you check in \oasis\spool\mail\ and see if there is a file, with 
another name, ie  jame.eml instead og james.eml then this is the 
problem... re-esend to your _real_ named box.

>Also is it possible to set a minumin newsgroup download, I tried to
>join comp.sys.atari.st but had to resign as there is over 1000 messages to d/l

Don't you mean _maximum_ ???? the thing to do is to change the date in 
nntp.dat, mine looks like this:

news.demon.co.uk 960623 164846

        comp.sys.atari.st
        demon.ip.support.atari

the date is the numbeR: 960623, in is in reverse order, Year, Month, 
Day... change it to say yesterdays date, and then log on, you should 
find you only have about 50 news articles to download... and once you 
have them all the date is changed again, to now.  So now as long as 
you don't leave it too long between downloads then you'll not have too 
many (about 4-500 per week).

>and they take *so* long to do so. I perfer to use Oasis that Cixcomm for
>newsgroups as there is no way to read news groups by their headers in Cixread
>/comm. Also can I delete the nos folder on my system, oasis seems to load an
>updted version and it would save valuable drive space.

see the above tips... if you have any more questions post them here !


ATb.
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