Subj : Strange...
To   : Matt Mc_Carthy
From : Mike Christian
Date : Sat Feb 24 2001 08:54 am

On Feb 23 Matt Mc_Carthy sez to All:

MM> I am running Binkleyterm, QMail, and MsgEd.
Hi Matt,
I run Bink, Squish and Msged, so I may not have the info you need. However, I 
do recall some similar problems when NOPC when from fakenet to 5d addressing 
many years ago. Unfortunately, I can't recall the fix. It may have been 
something as simple as the order in which something was listed in a config 
file. I just can't recall now.

Are you defining areas in an Areas.BBS file or some other file? I define mine 
in Squish.CFG, but used AREAS.BBS for a long time too.


MM> Here's what is happening.  Inbound from 396/45 seems OK (after some 
MM> password problems).  Outbound is not so good!  Everything is fine 
MM> 2-way with the old boss!


MM> I have Netmail and one echo linked to 396/45.  I post a Netmail, 
MM> either a reply or a new message, and I post an echomail.  Exit 
MM> MsgEd, and I have a Msged.log file, but it only lists the echomail 
MM> echo, NO netmail.  Is this normal   ?????
Actually, I think that is normal. I believe the toss file is just for echo 
mail. I have been having trouble with MsgEd here because somewhere between 
versions it seems the errorlevel generated for various functions changed and    
I haven't taken the time to straighten it out. Thus, I have to manually pack 
mail to go out (it used to be done by a batch file automatically after I wrote 
new messages). You may have a similar problem, but I don't knoiw why it is only 
showing up after changing your address.

Here's the pertinent parts og my MSGED.CFG:

Name "Mike Christian"   lastread 0
Address 1:396/17.4
; A private-net address - should only be used when necessary.
; Privatenet 30379
AreaFileFlags u
Lastread   lastread
Tosslog   c:\comms\bt\echotoss.log
Areafile squish c:\comms\bt\squish.cfg
Useroffset 0
; Uucp <gate address>
UUCP 1:396/17.1
UucpName  UUCP
gate none



MM> Next, run QM Scan Pack, no outbound is generated, but QM _does_ 
MM> delete the Msged.log file, indicating MsgEd _did_ generate the 
MM> errorlevel upon exit.
MM> What would stop QMail from grabbing that echomail message and 
MM> generating an outbound packet?
Being unfamiliar with QMail, I can only speculate - is it possible QM is 
packing (for example) UUCP outbound instead of NetMail? IOW, could it be trying 
to send the wrong flavor of mail, something you are not even set up to handle? 
I know I had a batch file that handled messages after I entered them based on 
the errorlevel Msged generated on exit. When those errorlevels changed, my 
batch file was broken because itwas not trapping the right errorlevels.


              **Mike**


 mike.christian@nopc.org

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 * Origin: Mike's Point of Confusion (1:396/17.4)

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