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to: Mike Christian
from: Joe E. Dodson
date: 1997-09-07 18:53:56
subject: Qrigin line problem

07 Sep 97 12:03, Mike Christian wrote to Joe E. Dodson:

MC>On Sep 02 Joe E. Dodson sez to ALL:

JED>> My origin line is not coming out right. I have it defined as 
JED>> but what seems to be coming out is a line from my areas.bbs
MC>If I remember right, the order of precedence for the origin line is:
MC>    1) the file named ORIGIN in 1.msg formats or
MC>       the file named xxxxxxxx.SQO in Squish essage bases

File not found on my system.

MC>    2) the Orign line defined in your mail processor *.cfg file
MC>       (e.g. SQUISH.CFG)

From squish.cfg "Origin A Place Called Joe's V.everything 713.351.9757

MC>    3) the Origin line defined in AREAS.BBS

There is not an origin line in my areas.bbs

MC>    4) the origin line defined in your message editor

From msged.cfg "Origin A Place Called Joe's USR V.everything 281.351.9757


MC>IOW, if you do NOT define an origin line in item 1 above, the origin line 
MC>comes from 2 above. If you do NOT define an origin line in eother 1 0r 2, 
MC>it comes from 3. If NONE are defined in 1,2 or3 then 4 is used.

MC>I am not 100% sure of this, but I did some tests a few years ago to 
MC>determine exactly this priority, and it seems like this was my findings 
MC>then.

Thanks at least it gave me some things to look at. BTW I checked msged.cfg
and I don't have any reference in it pointing to squish.cfg.
@EOT:

--- Msged/2 4.10
* Origin: $E:\MAX\MSG\WC!_CHAT WC (1:106/977{at}fidonet)
SEEN-BY: 270/101 104 396/1 600/675 622/419 632/107 360 633/260 267 270 359
SEEN-BY: 635/728 639/252 670/218 3615/50
@PATH: 106/977 990 2000 396/1 270/101 633/359 632/360 635/728 633/267

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