Mail areas have fixed area numbers, just like file areas. Some offline readers don't like changing the area numbers. All areas can be of the following types: local, netmail, echomail and news. If you gate news and echomail in the same area (doesn't work yet), then select echomail if this area is a Fidonet area, select news if this area is a Usenet news area.
Area Name The description of the area. Area Tag The echomail area tag. Newsgroup Leave this blank for now! Moderator Leave this blank for now! JAM base The path and name of the JAM message base without extension. Origin The origin line to add to echomail messages. Fido Aka The Fidonet aka for this area. QWK name The name of the area for OffLine Readers. Group The name of the echomail group. Distrib. Leave this blank for now! Area Type Local, Netmail, Echomail or News. Msg Kinds Private/Public, Private, Public, Read Only, FTN moderated, Usenet Moderated FTN chars FTN characterset, not in use yet! RFC chars RFC characterset, not in use yet! Days Old The maximum age of the messages before purging. Max. Msgs The maximum messages in this area. Netreply Netmail reply area if this is echomail. Active If this area is active. User Del. Users may delete their own messages. Read Sec. The security level to read messages. Write Sec. The security level to write messages. Sysop Sec. The security level to do sysop actions. Aliases Allow the use of an Alias. Random org Create random origin lines (Oneliner database). Quotes Add a random quote under new messages (Oneliner database). Mandatory If this area is mandatory for downlinks. UnSecure Don't check link address during toss (Dangerous!). OLR Default Switch area default on for OLR users. OLR Forced Area is always on for OLR users. Connections This will take you to the screen to edit up and downlinks.
Aka The network address. Send to Export mail to this node. Recv from Import mail form this node. Pause The node temporary is disconnected. Excluded The node is disconnected by the sysop. Delete Delete this connection.
A note about the excluded switch. This can be used to disconnect a node from the area by moderator request. AreaMgr requests from that node for this area are not processed anymore, he cannot disconnect this area and reconnect. If you want to prevent a node to connect the area while he is not connected, you should manually connect the node and then set the Excluded flag to yes. However, the status of this flag is reported to the node in the notify messages, so this action is not invisible.