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echo: ftsc_public
to: PAUL QUINN
from: MICHAEL DUKELSKY
date: 2020-03-22 17:18:00
subject: Messages attributes in FT

Hello Paul,

Sunday March 22 2020, Paul Quinn wrote to Fabio Bizzi:

 FB>> But I still don't understand what a mail processor or tosser has
 FB>> to do when a message has the MSGLOCAL attribute set. :)

 PQ> From experience I have found that _a_ tosser would -not- export a
 PQ> message without the LOC attribute being set.  I now recall that I was
 PQ> experimenting with the MPost utility... many moons ago.

 PQ> In short: the LOC attribute must be _set_ in order to send the subject
 PQ> message.

It is rather strange. The Loc attribute is set on a locally created message to
differentiate it from a message received from another system. So what is the
point of sending a message with the Loc attrubute set? The system receiving the
message will consider the message is created locally.

Michael

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