Hello Bob!

24 Jun 03 11:26, you wrote to me:

 BS>> Yes, but it's not routable in that way netmail is.
 BS>> Echomail is _exported_ not routed.

 BJ> Agree that is how echomail should normally be handled, but all the
 BJ> older mail mashers will allow one to route mail of any type (echomail
 BJ> or netmail).  And some systems will even pass on such routed mail
 BJ> packets without reprocessing the packet content.

I saw the problem then a node whitch normally have his mail on Hold here,
but his internet was down, so i want to route his mail thru by BOSS, but it
"routed" the echomail too..

I don't know what my boss did about the packages.. I guess it got tossed
into NTU (not to us).

 BJ>  ...
 BS>>> For poll ?

 BJ>> If I had ILO packets (vs CLO, HLO, DLO and FLO), I could more
 BJ>> easily distingquish between sending something out via BINKD vs
 BJ>> sending out via Binkley.

 BS>> Well it's not the point that Binkley shouldn't touch
 BS>> ILO.. What the problem about route "Normal" to binkp
 BS>> nodes?

 BJ> Nothing for BinkP, but then Binkley will also try to pick up those
 BJ> packets for delivery.  If you run both dial-up and IP based mailers on
 BJ> one system like I do, there is a convience of just configuring the
 BJ> mail type in one location (say route.cfg) and have that determine
 BJ> which protocol is used for delivering the mail.

I would say it's just a question about controling your routing.

....

 BJ> If I could place all connections typically based on binkp
 BJ> connections in the ILO type, then I wouldn't have to mess with
 BJ> configuring my binkley mailers (that handle telnet and dial-up) to NOT
 BJ> dial those nodes in a normal situation.  And I could probably handle
 BJ> the occational special message with the route.cfg file.

Yes, but as my further question was, binkley won't dial on normal (in a C
event), so why not route it normal?

If it's ION you got a double points because their phone number _should_ be
unpublished.

 BS>> Yes, but that's not the point about ILO/IUT..

 BJ> Then what do you see is the point of the ILO/IUT?

ILO should be used as a poll flavour.. Because so far as i understand the
flavour, on ILO the mailer should call immetately, and not wait to ensure
that no call is inbound, on crash it wait a bit, and then call.

Afaik does newer mailers than Binkley act this way.

Regards,
Bo

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