Re: hpt moving/changing netmail?
  By: Eric Renfro to Joe Delahaye on Thu Jul 23 2015 15:00:59

 ER> Well, you are partially correct. 

 ER> ArcMail/Attach-mail mailers used "Stored Messages", FTS-1
style, meaning
 ER> they directly utilize the *.msg files and in monitoring and in
 ER> transmission, they are read, attached, and changed. 

 ER> binkd is BSO/FLO style mailer, which means it doesn't use "Stored
 ER> Messages", instead, NetMail is packed into PKTs and shipped that way.
 ER> Combined with an .out file in a specific directory matching zone, net,
 ER> node, and point in a specific hexadecimal naming convention.


Yes, and the hexidecimal naming convention is confusing without a converter 
 At least with Arcmail attach, I knew what was going where, and I could manage
it if required.  With BSO style it is difficult.  Can be fixed to some extent
using file boxes


 ER> That's the baseline fundamental differences. I know, when I ran my BBS
 ER> back in the day, I always /preferred/ Arcmail/Attachmail style, using
 ER> InterMail, simply because I hated BSO style, especially BinkleyTerm,
 ER> Portal of Power was okay, but BSO-style still.

I liked Intermail.  It did PCBoard natively   Had it been a 32 bit Front
End, I would still be using it, even though I am now using Synchronet.  I did
use it for quite a while actually, before switching to REX, and now Binkd.


 ER> So, while using BSO-style mailing, once netmail is packed into a PKT for
 ER> delivery, it's technically "sent" in terms of the
concept, it's been
 ER> processed for delivery. It's up to the mailer to try to ship it from there
 ER> from that. 

 ER> Another point of interest. ArcMail/Attach-Mail could do their own routing,
 ER> while BSO/FLO relied on the packer to route it. 

Yes, and that was another point that I  had difficulty with, and still do on
occassion.



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