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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: Matthias Hertzog
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2021-05-05 11:44:00
subject: Re: Netmail in the insecu

Hi Matthias,

On 2021-05-05 11:30:17, you wrote to me:

 WV>> Fileboxes are not BSO compatible. So the behaviour regarding flow
 WV>> files in fileboxes is undefined. So that can cause problems if a
 WV>> tosser and mailer try to access the same files at the same time...

 MH> I think what Oli meant to say was: Put the PKTs in some per-node folder
 MH> and leave the LOs in the normal outbound. That way the outbound is
 MH> clean, you see what's waiting without having the fuzz of all the PKTs
 MH> laying around.

 WV>> And you would still have hundreds (or even more, if the link remains
 WV>> offline) of .pkt files in that directory. So it doesn't solve
 WV>> anything...

 MH> You'll have 1 ?LO (and probably one ?UT) per node in the outbound and a
 MH> lot of PKTs in the "per node"-folder. Quite easy to delete, if needed (-:

Ok I understand. (And there's only the .?lo file)
But your tosser would have to support that, and it currently doesn't...

Bye, Wilfred.

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