* Originally in ASIAN_LINK
* Crossposted in NET_DEV
Hi C.G.,

On 2017-01-26 10:34:08, you wrote to All:

 CGL> This seems to be the place for inquiring minds to ask questions. This
 CGL> may be off topic for this echo, but I've been told actually anything
 CGL> goes here.

This is more a kind of general chit chat area afaik. So I crossposted to
the NET_DEV area.

 CGL> I'm helping a programmer friend of mine fine tune a mail tosser. I've
 CGL> researched it on google, but can't find anything I quite understand.
 CGL> I'll try to make this simple, as I want a somwhat simple answer. How
 CGL> does a tosser tell the difference between a "Netmail"
message and a
 CGL> "echomail" message. Is there a header file in the PKT that will
 CGL> distinguish it, or is it the actual name of the PKT file. What should
 CGL> we look for so we can toss a netmail PKT message to a netmail
 CGL> directory for reading.

You should find answers for these kind of questions in the ftsc documents.
Echomail is defined in: http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-0004.001

You distinguish an echomail from a netmail by the 'Area line'. This will be
the first line in the message body, starting with "AREA:"
followed by the area name.

Bye, Wilfred.

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