Hello Bob!

25 Jun 03 14:47, you wrote to me:

 BS>> All the tossers i've used did use sepperate netmail
 BS>> routing and echomail exporting.

 BJ> You must be using newer software or software based on something other
 BJ> than Fido/Fidonet/Confmail, Opus/(optional)Binkley/Ommm,
 BJ> Maximus/Binkley/Squish, etc.

Correct, as a node i've been running as mailtossers: Crashmail (never done
that agian! :)), hpt and SBBSEcho. And all of them did have sepperate
netmail routing/echomail exporting.

 BJ> I know front door and dbridge handle
 BJ> some of this differently for outbound routing, but I haven't played
 BJ> with those.....

Frontdoor does the netmail routing, D'Bridge too. And those two use
"Attachmail" outbound too, it means that for every file there is,
there is a netmail with a attachet file.

 BS>> Then all the bugs is corrected, i would be one of the
 BS>> things, but we should first get the Sqafix source..

 BJ> Yup.....  Tackle SQAFIX issue first....

I guess no node would be without a Areafix processor :)

 BS>> BTW there is a solution too, you could use a tracker or
 BS>> cfroute, but it should be possible for squish to handle both.

 BJ> I don't believe cfroute or tracker existed at the time I hit the
 BJ> bug.... ...

Heh :) O/T track is quite old as far as i remember?

 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> Since nodes are not guarenteed to handle any archived mail if they fly
 BJ> the MN flag, or just a very old ARC standard if they don't fly the MN
 BJ> flag, I default to non-archived netmail when sending direct to nodes I
 BJ> haven't previously made contact with.

I can't handle mail packed by ARC :) I somebody crash me a mail, it's often
uncompressed. Quite wierd that squish pack netmail too.

 BJ> And with that, you know my
 BJ> issue with how Squish handlesNormal, no archive and later route.cfg
 BJ> information.  :(  For now, I tend to route all out of local net
 BJ> netmail via backbone channels instead of trying to send via more
 BJ> direct routes.

Hmm.. Well then i run Squish under UNIX i didn't have any problem about
using the Normal flavour... So i guess it's somekind of bug in your squish
version?

 BS>> It makes a arcmail and makes a flowfile with .flo extention?

 BJ> See above....  Issues are when the mail is not compressed and how
 BJ> Squish will then reprocess those outbound packets.  :(

Looks like a bug.

 BS>> Oh i see.. But it's not default in Fastlst, or what you
 BS>> are using as nodelist compiler. Hmm.. i'm not scure
 BS>> about that..

 BJ> I'd have to look it up, but I believe I am using QNode to produce a
 BJ> version 7 nodelist.  Fastlist used to be shareware, and is why I went
 BJ> with QNode at the time.  And after fastlist went pd or GNU type
 BJ> license, I haven't seen a functioning compiled version for running
 BJ> under OS/2 that could use my old control file info.

I'm quite satisfied about fastlst then i ran BTXE.

 BJ> Back when this
 BJ> (local) net (1:343) had around 100 nodes, that was an issue, because I
 BJ> have an extensive list of what exchanges with in my area code(s) (now
 BJ> plural) are local and which are long distance, have extra charges, or
 BJ> are plain not good to dial (i.e. emergency numbers, operator, etc.).

Hmm, doesn't your modem not like to chat with the operator? ;)

Regards,
Bo

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