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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: mark lewis
from: Eric Renfro
date: 2015-07-26 15:16:48
subject: CFRoute

Re: CFRoute
  By: mark lewis to Alan Ianson on Sun Jul 26 2015 12:02 pm

 NB>>> If you use a BSO mailer, there is absolutely no need to use *.MSG
 NB>>> for interBBS games. You can simply create a dummy netmail area, let
 NB>>> the game produce those files, move your game packets to a filebox
 NB>>> to get sent off to your uplink, and then delete the contents of the
 NB>>> dummy netmail area containing those game .MSG files.

 AI>> I use binkd. I have seen fileboxes mentioned in the config but
 AI>> haven't used them so they are a mystery to me. I suppose everything
 AI>> in a filebox directory is simply sent and deleted? Is other stuff
 AI>> like netmail/echomail also put in there or is that still handled by
 AI>> BSO? 

 ML> it can be either way...

 NB>>> Easy peasy. Those .MSG files are only for AMA (Arcmail attach)
 NB>>> style mailers. BSO doesn't need them whatsoever.

 AI>> Right, BSO just needs a flo file to tell it what to send and what to
 AI>> do with it after it is sent.

 ML> no flo files are needed when using fileboxes...

Right. Fileboxes are configured statically and exclusively for a specific node.
Similar to LFN fileboxes but more basic and simple, and less dynamic overall. 

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