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to: mark lewis
from: Richard Webb
date: 2010-06-04 17:27:38
subject: Direct Netmail

HI Mark, and TOm

On Fri 2038-Jun-04 10:44, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Thom LaCosta:

ml> can you say if the robot has figured out how to determine the proper
ml> name for *emailed* rules updates that contain the rules in the
ml> message instead of attached to the message?? the problem i ran into
ml> in the past was that while i was sending updates for (eg:)
ml> PASCAL_LESSONS with a rules file name of PASSLESS.RUL, the robot was
ml> extracting them to a file named
ml> PASCAL_LESSONS.RUL... then, to complicate matters, the database
ml> entry was truncated at 8.3 and there was no way for one to tell the
ml> robot to remove the file name that was listed because it couldn't
ml> locate the file by that name... 

I note in the latest rules file the filename for the above
mentioned echo is passless.rul.
Also note we've still rules files for echoes such as midinet which haven't
been around since Gary GIlmore left .




Regards,
           Richard
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