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On 03 Apr 16  17:14:20, Ruben Figueroa said the following to Nick Andre:

RF>  NA> The $P2 is a "stage packet" that is renamed/managed automatically, so
RF>  NA> that file should not be left-over.
RF>  NA> The symptoms you are explaining definately sounds like the mail is not
RF>  NA> being compressed, as in, PKZIP is not being executed.
RF> 
RF> Ok, I did have bbs output the *.pkt file in folder \gap\gapnet\out and afte
RF> creating a mail message and running the export of the bbs package, it place
RF> a *.pkt file there.  So how does DB know it is there, where do I put the pa
RF> for the pkt file?  In the DB\QUEUE\PACKETS folder?

No. I'll try to explain this as best as I can to avoid further confusion and 
hopefully save you a lot of headaches.

BBS software or any other 3rd party software for that matter, should NEVER 
store any packets or files in either the DB\Queue or DB\Packets directories.

When D'Bridge scans for outgoing mail, the first thing it does is scan the 
contents of the Netmail directory you specify. It reads all the Netmails and 
builds outgoing packets, compressing them as necessary (Xmail). After Netmail 
comes the Echomail areas, specified in the Editor-Echomail Areas screen.

When the mailer does this scanning, the contents of the Queue and Packets 
directories are subject to change; which is why any files that are not 
D'Bridge related should never be placed in there.

In the case of the $P2 problem you are having, again, this is most likely 
caused by the mailer not being able to compress or otherwise process the mail 
going out. So... that is why I asked you to eliminate your GAP BBS completely.

Pretend you do not have a BBS at all and you just have D'Bridge stand-alone.
If you post a message from within the D'Bridge editor to an Echomail area and
the problem persists, then it is definately your environment or D'Bridge 
configuration. If it works, then the problem logically is with your GAP BBS.

The BBS software you use must specifically support D'Bridge or use "standard"
file-attaches via Netmail *.MSG files... also known as Frontdoor mode. 
D'Bridge will work with all BBS software, 3rd party utils and Inter-BBS games 
that use Frontdoor mode. But you need to specify the directories carefully.

In this case, the outgoing packets would be staged in the BBS software's
outbound-directory and a Netmail is created in the directory you specified in 
D'Bridge for Netmail messages. That Netmail is a blank-message but has the 
outgoing packet file-attached and has the Kill/Sent or Truncate/Sent flag.

Hope this explains this all better...

Nick

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