HI Sean,

On Wed 2037-Jun-10 22:27, Sean Dennis (1:18/200) wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> hunh?? FD rebuilds everything from the netmail messages in the netmail
 ml> area... i'm confused, i think... aren't i?

SD> No, you're right.  What I'm saying is that if you lose the netmail
SD> messages, you lose all of your mail.  I prefer to have my mail
SD> stored away from my netmail messages, heh.  I've had things blow up
SD> on me a few times that caused me to shy away from ARCmail mailers,
INdeed, same could be said if you accidentally bomb a flo
file too though.

Imho were I running a dynamic mailer I"d have a netmail area for me
and users, which I could then have netmgr or some
other like utility move to the primary netmail area where my mailer could
then see and act upon it.  OTher than that,
when it came to managing it, the mailer would do all that.
I could go through the human accessible nm area and kill
received msgs, etc. when/if I chose and not worry about
messing up system operations.  That would be my cure for
that potential problem anyway.

I stick with this one because I'm used to how it works.
When/if I can do something for transporting fidonet traffic
over internet here I'll probably reevaluate and then stick
with the concept I'm familiar with.

I did that for awhile anyway back in the day just to
separate users' netmail from mine, and to have a squish
style netmail area but needed *.msg style nm area for raid
iirc.


Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+