RS> Whats with the couple of private flagged messages to me which popped
RS> up in LocSysop from people outside TML ?  Presumably they were
RS> actually netmails ?

PE> You've been playing with your control.dat, haven't you?

Nope, did it initially, never touched it since. The whole question of
netmail was a bit less than clear, its quite different to the other areas,
so presumably it just got done wrong.

PE> Are you making sure NETMAIL is the first area?

No, thats presumably the problem. Whats the logic there ?  Presumably
the PKT doesnt have a proper AREA: for netmail and so it just tosses it
into the first area in the CONTROL.DAT and doesnt even bother to look at
the name of it ?

A more elegant solution would be to treat that as just a bit more of a
special case, when no AREA:, assume it must be netmail, so look for the
NETMAIL area in the CONTROL.DAT, instead of just dumping it in the first
one regardless of its name.

PE> There were no private messages of yours go into LOCSYSOP, although you
PE> did receive 2 netmails today.  If you are keeping your inbound mail,
PE> you will be able to verify this with INSPECT.

Yeah, thats clearly whats happening, no AREA: on those two.

RS> Whats the story about replying, and for that matter where are
RS> netmails in general up to now ?  Not that I want to reply to either
RS> or send any netmail any time soon. Just wondering.

PE> So long as netmail is your first area and is called NETMAIL, you just
PE> reply as usual with the "To: whatever" like you used to do with
PE> Maximus.  There is code in QWK2PKT that converts it into netmail. 

OK, I will have a fiddle.

I also noticed a single message in one area which wasnt to me which did
have a PVT flag in that bundle too. Havent noticed one before at all.

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