On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Kurt Weiske wrote to mark lewis:

 ML>> allfix announce

 KW> Mark, thanks again for the pointer.

you are welcome... it is exactly what is used to announce new files that
have been processed...

 KW> I have another question I was hoping you or someone else could 
 KW> answer, as I've been playing around with ALLFIX to no avail. 

 KW> I'm running Synchronet. With regards to report format, you can
 KW> select Hudson. PKT, *.MSG, Ezycom, Jam, Squish, and others. I've
 KW> played with PKT and *.MSG to get a packet that SBBSecho will import
 KW> into one of my file echoes, but to no avail.

you should be able to use PKT and simply have your sbbsecho toss them...
most traditional FTN systems have several directories related to mail
tossing... one of them is known as the "secure" area where only
truly known secure pkts are placed for tossing... this is NOT the same
directory as the secure inbound from the mailer... this particular secure
or trusted directory holds PKTs that you absolutely know where they were
created... PKTs like those created by your allfix announce... you would
tell allfix to put the PKTs in that secure directory and then the tosser
will toss them...

perhaps sbbsecho has some method to import/toss posts in PKTs that are from 
one of its addresses?? or possibly you can set allfix up with a point address 
which sbbsecho will then import the reports from the PKTs??

 KW> I use SMBUTIL to import other log files in text format into
 KW> Synchronet's message bases, and it works well. Is there any way to
 KW> get ALLFIX to output a report in text format only? Or a way to get
 KW> its' reports into a Synchronet message base that I've missed?

one other possibility, which is quite twisted, would be to have allfix
write to some other message base and then you would use a tool to extract
those messages to a text file which you might then have smbutil import...
what OS are you running this on? as said, this is very twisted and extreme
contortions like this should not be necessary...

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