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echo: fmail_help
to: Wilfred van Velzen
from: Paul Hayton
date: 2016-11-21 17:19:20
subject: Re: Fmail, HPT and FastEcho

On 11/20/16, Wilfred van Velzen pondered and said...
 
 Wv>  Wv>>  PH> and interzonal traffic in this meshed
echomail/netmail world
 Wv>  Wv>> we're
 Wv>  Wv>>  PH> living in?
 Wv>  Wv>>
 Wv>  Wv>> It handles it very well. ;)
 Wv> 
 Wv>  PH> What does it do?
 Wv> 
 Wv> What any good tosser does: tossing. We can keep this up for a while. ;)
 Wv> 
 Wv> I think you need to be more specific...

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

 Wv>  PH> It's not the code I want to compare rather the way the end product
 Wv> operates
 Wv>  PH> and what it does / does not do/support etc.
 Wv> 
 Wv> Than you will have to depend on the docs and experience. But that
 Wv> probably won't tell you the exact details of the dupe checking
 Wv> algorithme for instance.

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

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

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

Best, Paul

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