In a message to Anthony about areafix, Paul said:

PE> I'm not sure if you're saying that the squish routing
PE> commands work automatically, or changing your batch file
PE> worked.  The latter will definitely work, so I'll leave the
PE> former in the "untested as yet" pile.

Both - the squish poll 3:711/934 is working

AM> the binkley schedule file.  Is there any point in deleting it?

PE> Yes, so that it will exit for the first time.  If you don't
PE> do that, then if you poll for mail again, then the first
PE> one will not exit straight away, it will be the one that
PE> gets your mail, and when it exits, it will then start up
PE> another one, which you have to exit manually.  You could
PE> get around this by saying "if errorlevel=start_of_event
PE> then start binkley again" instead of the blind two starts
PE> that I did.

So why can't I just leave the .scd file and have 1 call to btp??

PE> Sounds like you've lost your sysop status.  Can you try
PE> going into the messages section in Max and seeing if you
PE> can enter a message into these areas?  The renum days
PE> instead of renum max has nothing to do with it.

As I mentioned in another message, the problem went as strangely as
it appeared.  Honestly, I didn't do anything!

PE> No, Public Only means that if you enter a message locally
PE> (or with QWK) that the attribute will be stripped.
PE> However, incoming echomail needs the "StripAttributes" in
PE> squish.cfg to delete the PVT flag.

What's wrong with the pvt flag being there?

PE> Yes, this is normal, so that if there's more mail for you
PE> the same day, it will start on the next number, so that you
PE> don't get a name clash your end if you haven't processed
PE> your inbound mail yet.

Understood.

PE> Every time mail comes into my system, it gets processed.  Mail
PE> comes into my system from all my points (anytime at all), Dave
PE> (once a day at about 6.45 am), and a guy from Melbourne (about
PE> once a week, at any time).  BFN.

I see, it's just the mail from the other points being packed.  So
squish _adds_ their mail to the bundle, each time mail is added?  This
would also go for qwkers too (i.e. the mail they upload gets added to
my packet)?  Doesn't that mean it has to decompress my packet and
everyone elses who is on the same tagged echos, add the mail from the
last upload (point and/or qwk?) and then recompress it? For any and
all points every time mail is added?  This doesn't sound right...

'tnt, Amfony.


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