Definitions for "QWK"
Keywords:  offline, bbs, bulletin, qwikmail, qmail
A type of mail packet.
Qwikmail. A n offline message file format for bulletin boards offering mail through a QMail Door. The .QWK door and file format has been used to develop entire BBS networks (example: ILINK.) There are QWK-format mail readers for Apple, Amiga, Atari, C64/C128, CoCo/OS9, CP/M, Macintosh, MS-DOS, OS/2, Unix, Windows and Windows NT.
QWK is file-based offline mail reader format that was popular among bulletin board system (BBS) users, especially users of Fido Net and other networks that generated large volumes of mail. During the height of bulletin board system popularity, several dozen offline mail readers supported the QWK format.