*** Quoting Joe Davis from a message to Alan Ianson ***

 AI>  I have
 AI> noticed at times when I get a file attach from a dynamic mailer
 AI> like FD or IM I get the fully qualified path from the senders
 AI> system. 

JD> Are you sure?
JD> I ask because I set up... enough to write a netmail and send it to mys
JD> an old copy of FD.  v2.12 it is.

JD> It behaved like this:
JD> Write a netmail w/ a file attached, and save with FM, the editor that
JD> comes with FD.

JD> Return to FD.

JD> FD immediately 'senses' that a new *.msg was created and in another di
JD> creates two files, one with .ext = .pkt  and the other with .ext = .fd

I'm pretty sure I've seen fully qualified paths from messages from FD/IM.
It could be that the person who sent it used a FQP when they wrote the
message?? But I don't have anyone sending me messages with either anymore
so my memory may be fooling with me a bit too.. ;)

JD> IM... I couldn't get it to find my other modem, and I'd found out what
JD> I wanted to find out with FD.   I would like to find time to see just
JD> what IM and its editor really produce too.   I wonder if it is the sam
JD> or different results from FD....

IM is very much like FD, it uses a lot of the same filenames like route.fd,
fdnode.ctl and more like that. I never did use IM a lot though, I've always
prefered the look & feel of FD.

 AI >I'm not sure if squish would
 AI> be able to find the file and send it on it's way or not in a
 AI> case like that..

JD> Squish does not, if the FQPath is on the subject line.
JD> Qualification:  Squish does fine with it, if the local bit is set, and
JD> the path is real.

The dynamic mailers need to have the path somewhere since they don't have a
static control file like BSO mailers. It would be a plus if Squish would
just use the filename.ext if the FQP is on the subject line. Of coarse
that's easy for me to suggest.. it may not be as easy to impliment and
makes squish more and more complicated..

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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