Re: hpt moving/changing netmail?
  By: Joe Delahaye to mark lewis on Thu Jul 23 2015 09:26 am

 ML>> you're thinking of the older file attach mailers which manage their
 ML>> own netmail 
 ML>> areas... binkd has no such mechanism... binkd relies on the tosser
 ML>> to mark mail 
 ML>> as sent or to delete it when it is packed for transmission into PKT
 ML>> files... 

 JD> As far as I know it is the job of the mailer to mark a message as sent or
 JD> not. Tossers only prepare for transmission. Now, I agree, I am not very
 JD> familiar how binkd works, but, I thought there were some settings in the
 JD> config to do something like that.

Well, you are partially correct. 

ArcMail/Attach-mail mailers used "Stored Messages", FTS-1 style, meaning they
directly utilize the *.msg files and in monitoring and in transmission, they
are read, attached, and changed. 

binkd is BSO/FLO style mailer, which means it doesn't use "Stored Messages",
instead, NetMail is packed into PKTs and shipped that way. Combined with an
.out file in a specific directory matching zone, net, node, and point in a
specific hexadecimal naming convention.

That's the baseline fundamental differences. I know, when I ran my BBS back in
the day, I always /preferred/ Arcmail/Attachmail style, using InterMail,
simply because I hated BSO style, especially BinkleyTerm, Portal of Power was
okay, but BSO-style still.

So, while using BSO-style mailing, once netmail is packed into a PKT for
delivery, it's technically "sent" in terms of the concept, it's been processed
for delivery. It's up to the mailer to try to ship it from there from that. 

Another point of interest. ArcMail/Attach-Mail could do their own routing,
while BSO/FLO relied on the packer to route it. 

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