Re: Re: HPT and Pre-Processing
  By: Nicholas Boel to Eric Renfro on Thu Jul 23 2015 07:32 pm

 ER>> Another strange an unusual question.. This one's regarding HPT.

 ER>> Synchronet's sbbsecho currently directly takes NetMail PKT's and
 ER>> directly imports them to it's SMB message base. Getting that changed
 ER>> is going to take pulling teeth, likely, but here's my goal:

 ER>> If I must, I want to use HPT to essentially PRE-process PKT's for
 ER>> netmail, ignoring anything for EchoMail, Areafix, etc., just to get
 ER>> NetMails out and exported to *.msg messages so that all inbound
 ER>> messages destined to any of my AKA's can be saved. After that, THEN
 ER>> run sbbsecho on the same, untouched/unmangled/unmodified pkt's to
 ER>> handle importing, and areafix, etc..

 NB> Ditch your FIDOIN and FIDOOUT scheduled tasks. Instead, change those to
 NB> run a script that will do your filefix first. Then run sbbsecho.

Heh, well the fidoin and fidoout events are just running my tossin and tossout
bash scripts. :) Which ultimately do run sbbsecho, but nothing about hpt is in
there yet, just htick. 

 NB> Unless this is an old post, I thought you were already doing this?

Not yet. It's something I'm researching into now. :)

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