23 Jul 15 09:26, you wrote to me:

 ML>> you're thinking of the older file attach mailers which manage their
 ML>> own netmail areas... binkd has no such mechanism... binkd relies on
 ML>> the tosser to mark mail as sent or to delete it when it is packed for
 ML>> transmission into PKT files...

 JD> As far as I know it is the job of the mailer to mark a message as sent or
 JD> not.

you are thinking of FD and friends... they are File Attach mailers and they
pack netmail messages in their netmail area on their own... binkd and
friends cannot do that because they do not have any idea what a netmail
area is... binkd and friends rely on the tosser to do the same job that FA
mailers spoiled us with... the truth is that FA mailers do perform some
tossing and scanning functions like a tosser but they are limited strictly
to netmail in only one netmail area...

 JD> Tossers only prepare for transmission.  Now, I agree, I am not very
 JD> familiar how binkd works, but, I thought there were some settings in
 JD> the config to do something like that.

binkd and other similar BSO mailers only read and react to files of
specific nameing formats in their outbound directories... they don't care
what is in the files... only that they can read their names to send and
delete them... only ?LO files are parsed by BSO mailers and that so they
know which other files to send that do not have the hex xxxxyyyy naming
format... BSO is more primitive than the other formats used by FA
mailers...

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