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echo: fmail_help
to: Allen Prunty
from: Michiel van der Vlist
date: 2016-09-05 13:08:46
subject: New: PING/TRACE function. Tests requested.

Hello Allen,

On Monday September 05 2016 05:10, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 AP> I got a ping/trace from another node and it went into my
"unsecured"
 AP> folder. Unfortunately F_Mail does not have a place to put unsecured in
 AP> the list so my system did not find it.

There is a reason fmail does not automatically process mail from the
unsecure directory...


I have the following solution:

1) I fly the MN flag in the nodelist. Signaling that compressed mail will
not be automatically processed without prior arrangement. Only raw *.PKT is
automatically processed from an unsecure session.

2) in my mailrcvd.bat I have a line before caliing fmail toss:

   if exist \fido\unsecure\*.pkt move \fido\unsecure\*.pkt \fido\secure\


Works for me.

 AP> I'm wondering if there's a way to make F_Mail pack all outbound
 AP> netmail / and mail routed through my system as crash mail to the
 AP> destination?  I'm not sure who is trustworthy to route Zone2 mail
 AP> reliably through.

If you are not sure on how to do that, then don't.


 AP> I've looked at your documentation and not quite sure the syntax... I
 AP> can see the "syntax" that most programmers put in their
documentation
 AP> but without seing at least a half dozen examples I get lost.

 AP> I noteiced that I have to put a node in the Fmail to crash the mail to
 AP> it.

No, you do not have to enter a node in the fmail node manager to crash mail
to it. If the crash mail bit in the message is set, what you have t do is:

   fmailw32 pack * -c

 AP>  I don't trust routing ANYTHING especially Z2 netmails through
 AP> anything in Z1.

Then don't...

 AP> Z1 would like you to think that they are organized, but they are NOT.
 AP> At one time you could route a net's mail through their NC and it would
 AP> get there... NOT anymore.  I don't know how reliable it is over in Z2
 AP> but if you route to a nodes NC they may or may not get it where it's
 AP> supposed to go.

No comment... ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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