 There will most likely come a time when you wish to send private mail to a user
on a node not directly linked to this system.  This is to be expected.  One node
could not POSSIBLY link directly to every node on the net.  So sending mail to
remote nodes is supported by Fortress.  To send mail to a non-direct node, you
MUST know the proper path.  For example, to send mail to "Godzilla@Tokyo", you
must know the path between 'here' and Tokyo.  In this example, we shall use
the following fictitious path:  HERE links to Hawaii; Hawaii links to
Twilight; Twilight links to Tokyo.  To then send your private mail message,
you would first, of course, ".G(oto) MAIL" to enter the Mail room.  At the
"Mail>" prompt, you would press the "E" key to enter a message.  Then, when
Fortress prompts for a recipient, you would enter the following (as taken
from the above fictitious path):
 
 Hawaii!Twilight!Tokyo!Godzilla
 
 Then, enter your private message to Godzilla@Tokyo.  When your message is
complete, press the [RETURN] key twice in succession.  At the next prompt,
type "S" to save the message.  Fortress then stores the message and waits to
send it the next time it links to Hawaii.  Hawaii will receive the message
and store it for Twilight.  When Twilight receives the message from Hawaii,
it will be stored for Tokyo.  Finally, when Tokyo receives it, the mail
message will be stored for Godzilla to read the next time s/he logged in.
 
 Better yet, Fortress can
now be configured to look up remote nodes in a path file.  With the addition of
the path file, if the path to Tokyo was already known to this system, you could
send mail to Godzilla at Tokyo the same as if Tokyo really was directly linked
to this system, by simply entering `Godzilla@Tokyo' after the `To:' prompt.  If
this system did not know the path, it would reject the address and you would
have to type in the full path.  When you come across a path that is unknown to
the system, you should leave mail addressed to `Sysop' with the nodename and the
full path, so that he can add the path to the path file, which will make it
simpler for you to send mail there in the future.
 
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