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to: Paul Quinn
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2017-09-16 22:31:34
subject: Re: Trialing FMail/lnx - Phase 4

Hi Paul,

On 2017-09-16 22:56:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> You can't.

 PQ> I am crushed.  :(

You'll get over it. ;)

 WvV>> That's by design. Freq's are not really the domain of a
 WvV>> mail processor/tosser.

 PQ> You had better tell FTools then.  It has a 'post' function sporting a '-r'
 PQ> switch (I wasn't using it... honest).

That's about creating a filerequest message, not about handling it...

 WvV>> A BSO mailer needs a .req file to send a file request to a
 WvV>> node.

 PQ> That's all the tosser needs to do in a BSO environment: parse the Subj
 PQ> field for FREQ-able filename(s), and create the .Req file for the intended
 PQ> system from the netmail.  That .Req file is added to the .Flo file.  The
 PQ> contents are the requested filename(s) at one per line.

Ok it could be done, maybe in the pack function, or maybe in a seperate
function. It doesn't seem all that hard... But it was never implemented by
the original author, and never came up before in the 10 years I'm involved
with the source code. I could put it on "the list", but it
wouldn't be a high priority item...

Bye, Wilfred.

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