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to: MARK LEWIS
from: VINCENT COEN
date: 2020-05-12 23:13:00
subject: Back in the echo

Hello mark!

Tuesday May 12 2020 16:38, you wrote to me:

 >   Re: Back in the echo
 >   By: Vincent Coen to Sean Dennis on Tue May 12 2020 21:10:17


 SD>>> Uhm, have you used netmail attachments much?  If you attach a
 SD>>> file to a message you need to use the filename as the subject.
 SD>>> You can't add a subject and attach a file.  So what is it?

 VC>> The netmail does not need a subject just the file attachment but
 VC>> the file does need it along woth the other mandatory keywords
 VC>> (keywords that must always be supplied)..

 > file attach mailers require that the netmail with the attached file
 > contain the file's name and path in the subject line... this is how it
 > has always been done...

Yes agreed. The subject in the Netmail message is of not concern as it is not
processed by the program. The mailer just drops off all attachments to the
inbound directory where the program will process it from.



 > the BSO tossers i've used that support files attached to a netmail
 > also require that the file's path and name is in the subject line...
 > some of those BSO tossers will also send the (generally) empty netmail
 > while others do not... but both do set a link to the file in the flo
 > file for the mailer to use...


That is all fine for mbse the important thing is that the .ECO file has the
correct keywords.

These are not in the .RUL file as that is just lines of text that will be
copied over to a .RUL file with the name of the echo i.e., MBSE.RUL


 > then you have mailers that use fileboxes where you only need to drop a
 > file in the filebox and off it goes with no netmail involved at all...

Mbse does have that as a facilty in theory but I tried and failed to get it to
work.  That said It serves me no real purpose and if anything is a pain as
without using it,  I know all outbound files/message etc are in the same area
for all links.



Vincent

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