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to: Tom De Puysseleyr
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2022-02-08 16:51:00
subject: Re: Pack crashnetmail for

Hi Tom,

On 08 Feb 22 16:32, Tom De Puysseleyr wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Pack crashnetmail for unknown nodes?":

 WV>> Yes you will have to use the -c option with pack, for packing
 WV>> netmails with the crash flag set, like this:

 WV>>   FMailW32.exe pack * -c

 TDP> Wow, two identical replies in the same number of minutes!  :)

Well not exactly identical. I copied from my linux script, but for the windows version you still have to use /C for the option. (This might change in the future though)

 TDP> I'll try that option, thanks. Next will be figuring out how to have
 TDP> binkd send these out using the nodelist. There's a perl script that
 TDP> replaces the * in the hosts part of a node with the INA address in
 TDP> the nodelist, but I have the feeling that this doesn't work for nodes
 TDP> that are not in the configfile.

No, it should work.

Another method would be to "compile" the nodelist to a form binkd can read, so you can include it from your binkd config file.

I use this php script for this:

http://ambrosia60.ddnss.org/software/software.htm

(Scroll down to BINKD_NODELISTER.PHP)

Wilfred.

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