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to: Fermin Sanchez
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2021-05-15 17:34:00
subject: Re: `correct` way for bad

Hi Fermin,

On 2021-05-15 17:03:07, you wrote to All:

 FS>    Hello everybody!

 FS> Just wanted to know how you all handle this. I went into "Miscellaneous -
 FS> Message Base" and assigned them like this:
 FS> ***
 FS> Bad message board   1
 FS> Dupl. message board 2
 FS> Recovery board      3
 FS> ***
 FS> I also put the path to a new, previously empty directory into "Personal
 FS> mail - Pers. mail path" to get copies of (echo area) mails sent to me.

 FS> From what I could see, there's no way that GoldEd would pick those up
 FS> automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in golded.cfg:
 FS> ***
 FS> AREADEF Netmail  "NETMAIL"  0 Net OPUS f:\fido\netmail
 FS> AREADEF Personal "PERSONAL" A Net OPUS f:\fido\persmail
 FS> AREADEF Badmail  "BADMAIL"  A Local Hudson 1
 FS> AREADEF Dupes    "DUPES"    A Local Hudson 2
 FS> AREADEF Recovery "RECOVERY" A Local Hudson 3
 FS> ***
 FS> (HUDSONPATH and JAMPATH are also configured; AutoExport generates areas.gld
 FS> in the golded directory)

 FS> Am I overlooking something obvious, or is this the way to go? Because
 FS> from what I understood, the "BBS area file path" found in the
 FS> AutoExport settings is for, well, BBS configs, right?

I'm not sure I did something specific for this (it was a long time ago).
But my areas.gld (generated by FMail) contains all my areas FMail knows about, including the netmail and hudson areas:

AREADEF NETMAIL              "Netmail area"          0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\ .    (Loc)
AREADEF SENT_RCVD            "Sent/Received netmail" 0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\save\ . (R/O Loc)
AREADEF DUP_MSGS             "Duplicate messages"    0 Local Hudson 199 . (R/O Loc)
AREADEF BAD_MSGS             "Bad messages"          0 Local Hudson 200 . (R/O Loc)
AREADEF ADSL                 "ADSL"                                       F Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\adsl 2:280/464.0 (Loc)
AREADEF ALASKA_CHAT          "ALASKA_CHAT"                                F Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\alaska_chat 2:280/464.0 (Loc)
[...]

I haven't configured a "BBS area file path"...


Bye, Wilfred.

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