Hi Paul,

On 21 Nov 16 17:19, Paul Hayton wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Re: Fmail, HPT and FastEcho":

 PH> I thought I was. I want to know how FMail treats packets when tossing
 PH> interzone as I read there are known issues with the way FastEcho
 PH> handles the same situation. What does FMail do such packets, does it
 PH> create PATH or SEEN-BY kludges that include zone info or ??

De specifications for PATH and SEEN-BY kludges don't allow for zone info.
The issue with FastEcho is that it strips SEEN-BY's (I never remember if
that's incoming or outgoing, but it's one of the two) when it detects
interzonal traffic. This is hardcoded, so you can't turn it off. In FMail
that's fully configurable.

 PH> Dupe checking aside I was after some feedback from people (that I
 PH> figured would be here) who have experience with FMail to be able to
 PH> offer some qualified thoughts about the features of FMail vs FastEcho
 PH> (and HTP).

 PH> I've downloaded the latest FMail, I am looking at it to form my own
 PH> opinions about it ...but it's always nice to hear some thoughts about what
 PH> it offers from the current maintainer and current users of the software

The current maintainer offers limited support. ;)

I think what FMail mainly has going over FastEcho is, that it is actively
maintained, and there are regular new releases with new features and bug
fixes...

 PH> It's starting to feel like that's a hard thing to obtain..

If there are FMail users outside the few that I'm aware of, they have
always been very quiet in here.

The download page on sourceforge can show statistics by country. I don't
know how accurate this is, but here are the stats for the last 2.5 months
since the last release:

1.  Spain          59
2.  United States  21
3.  Croatia        16
4.  Netherlands     5
5.  Denmark         3
6.  Finland         3
7.  Canada          2
8.  Ukraine         2
9.  Japan           2
10.  Kazakhstan     2
11.  Russia         2
12.  Romania        1
13.  Czech Republic 1
14.  India          1
15.  Sweden         1
16.  Australia      1
17.  Germany        1
18.  New Zealand    1
19.  Brazil         1

I suspect a large number of those are accidental downloads of people who
don't really know what they are downloading, or bots. I have no clue where
that high number in Croatia suddenly comes from. I'm not even aware of any
fido presence in that country. The downloads from Spain have always been
higher than average, so I suspect there are some real users there, but I
have never been in contact with any. There probably is a language barier...


Wilfred.

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