On 2017 Dec 03 22:47:12, you wrote to me:

 ml>> currently:
 ml>>   mail is tossed, packaged and placed in a central outbound.
 ml>>   tool moves outbound mail to BSO & fileboxes.

 ml>> proposed:
 ml>>   mail is tossed, packaged and placed in a central outbound.
 ml>>   tool moves outbound mail to 2nd staging area on same disk as binkd.

 MD> Yes, this 2nd staging area is just a temporary outbound in terms of hpt.
So
 MD> since you use hpt you already have it.

HPT is run on my point system... not on my main system where i was speking
of...

 ml>>   tool moves outbound mail from 2nd staging area to BSO & fileboxes.

 MD> You don't have to move to temporary outbound the mail destined to BSO.

it is one or none... no choice...

 ml>> remember, not everyone has huge disks and fast modern machines for
 ml>> this stuff...

 MD> You don't have to enlarge your partitions or have a faster machine. When
 MD> you do the first move, the files occupy the same extent as they do in your
 MD> present scheme but just the filename is in a different directory. The
 MD> second move does not change the occupied size and it is fast because the
 MD> file contents is not moved. It is the file "passport" (filename and some
 MD> other technical info) that is moved to a different directory.

the problem is configuring the tool to the 2nd staging area... i would do
better to rewrite the tool in 4OS2...

 MD> So the only problem is your tool. If you have its sources you may
 MD> change it.

it is/was a closed tool... it may come back but that depends on if the sources
are still available... FD is being ported now but i don't know if the sources
to this tool are included in that porting...

 MD> If you haven't then you may use some scripting language
 MD> (cmd/4DOS/4OS2, you name it) to make the second move or replace your
 MD> tool with the new script completely.

yeah... but that code is a bit of a PITA... i do have a routine for BSO stuffs
but no clean way to include it like in linux where you just source a file...

 MD> BTW I don't understand why you need any special tool to move mail to
 MD> outbound. You use hpt, don't you? And hpt can correctly move mail to
 MD> fileboxes via temporary outbound.

i shouldn't need HPT to do a dual move if i could use HPT on the main system...
i don't even know if there's a viable HPT for my OS/2 anyway...

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