Hello Nicholas!

29 Nov 14 07:38, you wrote to Björn Felten:

 NB>>> When you specify a filebox in a node definition, can we have
 NB>>> binkd create that directory upon config change (maybe with a
 NB>>> "createfilebox" option or something?

 NB> BinkD already creates any outbound directories that aren't your primary
 NB> AKA, so I don't see why it shouldn't create any other directories it
 NB> doesn't find.

 BF>>    How hard can it be to have binkd create the directories it wants?
 BF>> That's what all intelligent program does -- even my old, trusted
 BF>> SquishMail from the early 1990s creates all the outbound directories
 BF>> needed.

 NB> Agreed. I was just doing something specific at the time in regards to
 NB> fileboxes, so that was all I mentioned (that I noticed at the time).

 I think there is a definte difference in crating directories that are
 based on rules, such as the outbound directories, and directories that
 have to be created only once and their definition is decided by the sysop.
 Besides, the latter may have to cooperate with other programs that have
 their own config files. With the way Binkd, crashmail and others warn
 the sysop that the directory does not exist, there is a check, that you
 do not blindly follow the definitions that are in de sample file.
 It also protects you against typo's.

 Just a reaction from somebody who just installed a package he had never seen
 before.

Kees

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