On 2017 Aug 10 08:58:42, you wrote to me:

 ml>>>> the .qqq file is a PKT... they are generally built in a temp
 ml>>>> directory and then renamed and moved to your outbound...

 WV>>> FMail doesn't use a temporary directory.

 ml>> so it does all its work in the current directory or the directory in
 ml>> which the executable is located?

 WV> I didn't do an extensive search in the source about this, but afaik
 WV> fmail doesn't use the CWD. And the executable directory is used
 WV> (mainly for the config files) if you don't specify a "working"
 WV> directory through the FMAIL environment variable. But it doesn't use
 WV> that for creating pkt files. They are created directly in the outbound
 WV> directory...

i was wondering about that... with the .qqq extension, that should be OK
but then the question comes about if FMail supports fileboxes and if so,
where does it create the .qqq files? anything in a filebox is sent to the
system assigned to that box... i've got one link, now, that is insisting on
sharing one mailer with two different nodes and routing is broken such that
they're sending my system .out files for their other system where they are
trying to route the mail to... it is a mess and i'm not sure what else to
say to get them to change their setup and use two binkd installs with
different ports, directories and fileboxes... it should be really easy to
do with one binary and two different config files but... back to the point,
if something tries to create a temp file in the filebox and then rename it
to whatever its proper name should be, binkd may have already sent it off
since there's no semaphores to tell binkd to not process that filebox at
that point in time...

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