On 2017 Jun 13 20:15:22, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 Wv>> But I don't use a hudson area for my netmail, I keep them all as
 Wv>> *.msg's. So I don't know how that would work out exactly, with a
 Wv>> hudson netmail area. And so I don't use the 'import' funciton of
 Wv>> FMail:

 PH> Aha OK thanks.. :)

 PH> Yes the import works OK and I thought I needed to do that but perhaps
 PH> I was wrong? So how do you read your *.msgs ? Do you use GoldEd?

don't be confused about the netmail areas... if one is running a BBS, they
would generally use their tosser's netmail import and export features so
their users can have access to netmail... you don't always want all
netmails imported, though... as a sysop, i prefer to keep my netmails out
of the BBS... they get moved to a special private netmail area solely for
me... then there are the general netmails used by the mailers and tossers
to communicate with others... areafix and allfix messages fall into this
category... they can stay in the mailer's netmail area if it has one, al la
frontdoor... the mailer's netmail area is for the mailer and the tosser to
communicate... netmails between humans really belong in another netmail
area solely for human access ;)

in my processing, i generally run the areafix and allfix commands first so
those netmails are handled... then netmails to me are moved and finally any
remaining netmails to users are imported into the BBS... then i run the
toss command... this is one of the reasons why i extract the PKTs from the
bundles... if i didn't do that, i'd have to dance the netmail dance again
after the tossing plus it allows the new mail to be added to the areafix
response and start the mail flowing immediately instead of after the next
tossing session...

my workflow may not be the same as others' workflow but it seems to flow
logically for my wants, needs and desires :)

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