24 Jul 15 09:25, you wrote to Eric Renfro:

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

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

 JD> Yes, and the hexidecimal naming convention is confusing without a
 JD> converter 

that's easy enough to deal with, though...

 JD> At least with Arcmail attach, I knew what was going where,

have you ever looked into your raw AM/FA outbound? i was never able to tell
what was going where by looking in the directory... luckily most tossers used
the same base filename for a system's packed mail... raw PKTs, on the other
hand, not so easy to tell... with packed mail using the same names for each
system, it was easy enough to write a quick little script that showed each file
and its destination at the command line level in the outbound directory...
since i've switched to raw PKTs and no longer pack PKTs into bundles, this
script cannot do anything because PKT names are always different...

 JD> and I could manage it if required.  With BSO style it is difficult.
 JD> Can be fixed to some extent using file boxes

one only needs the proper BSO tools to manage a BSO outbound... the sad part is
that they are pretty much lost to history and the sands of time... if they are
able to be found, it is possible that they won't work (runtime error 200 -
division by zero while attempting to calculate the delay loop) on today's
blazingly fast behemoth machines...

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