Re: Contradiction in FTA-1005
  By: mark lewis to Stephen Hurd on Sat Feb 06 2016 11:28 am

 >
 > 06 Feb 16 09:17, you wrote to me:
 >
 >  ml>> ummm... hello? what use would it be to assign a produce ID to
 >  ml>> synchronet when  it doesn't do anything FTN related?? sbbsecho is the
 >  ml>> /only/ FTN tool used in  the synchronet bbs package...
 >
 >  SH> Well, Synchronet does create stored messages for netmail,
 >
 > i thought that was sbbsecho doing that to export them to MSG and then
 > another  run would pack them and place them where the mailer could chew
 > on'em... maybe  the second run i'm thinking of is to import netmail written
 > locally and  addressed to the local system? you know how some users use
 > netmail for local  messages instead of the other available internal to the
 > bbs private messages...

SBBSecho (as of v2.3x) will export FTN netmail stored in the "mail" base to
*.msg. But Synchronet itself (sbbs), and specifically, the terminal server (the
traditional "bbs" part) still "sends" FTN netmail from users by creating .msg
files directly. Other means of sending FTN netmail (e.g. using the web
interface or SMTP) go to the "mail" base first and require SBBSecho to do the
exporting to .msg. In the future, all means of sending FTN netmail from within
Synchronet will go to the "mail" base first and what little FTN logic is baked
into Synchronet proper (e.g. sbbs.exe/sbbs.dll) will go away.
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