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To send a Qim message, you start your favorite Email Client, and compose a message to whoever has also a Qim account. Before sending the message, you append ".im2000" to the address, e.g. to send a message to my Qim-account you would substitute "jorge@magma.com.ni" with "jorge@magma.com.ni.im2000". This signals to your Mail server to not send the message via SMTP, but post it to Qim's mail storage, and send my mail server a notify message.
If I send you a Qim message, you will suddenly find in the Inbox of your favorite Email Client a weird, empty message looking like this:
Subject: 1020565347.8194609024.toa/new/1020565348.1667809051.toa:3,1
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 20:22:17 -0600
To: jorge@toa.ic.magma.com.ni.im2000
To read the message I sent to you, you have to Reply to it. It does not matter, if the message body is empty (but the sender's ISP will be glad if it is), but be sure, to preserve the Subject: field exactly like it is. The only modification allowed is to prepend the contents with a string like "Re: " or similar, in efect "*: " is the pattern used to match and strip your prefix.
Some time later you should receive an Email which appears as a Reply or part of a Message Thread to intelligent Email Clients, and which has (part of) the same weird Subject: line. Difference is, that it'll appear to come from me, and has the contents of my post in it's body.
Read it, and don't forget to Reply to "*.im2000".
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