Subj : Re: MMXT
To   : Ken Hrynchuk
From : William McBrine
Date : Tue Oct 22 2002 01:22 pm

-=> Ken Hrynchuk wrote to William McBrine <=-

 KH> I copied FAME.QWK and FAME.REP to
 KH> JOES.QWK and JOES.REP (to simulate mail
 KH> from multiple BBSes).

That's not how it works. The name for the .REP file is NOT taken from the
name of the original QWK packet, but rather from the BBSID, which is a
field in CONTROL.DAT. Renaming the packet doesn't change the BBSID. And
matching the base filename would be entirely wrong, since the BBS expects
to receive BBSID.REP, not BASENAME.REP. Typically, these are the same; but
as you've seen, they need not be. (Incidentally, very early versions of
MultiMail DID use the packet's basename rather the BBSID. I fixed that bug
in 0.7, the first version I put out.)

Each BBS has, or should have, a unique ID; so with genuinely different
boards, this works exactly as intended.

 KH> I opened JOES.QWK and
 KH> told MultiMail to kill replies; and it
 KH> deleted FAME.REP instead of JOES.REP (first
 KH> .REP it found, perhaps?).

No, it was the .REP that matched the BBSID.

 KH> Perhaps a filename check would enable
 KH> multi-packet compatibility?

"Multi-packet compatibility" is working fine, thanks. :-)

True, there can only be one reply packet at a time for a given board. But I
don't see that as a problem -- in fact, it's a plus, since all the replies 
for that board are accumulated into a single reply packet, instead of being 
potentially scattered and mislaid among several .REPs.

 KH> it appears that the 'QuoteWrapCols' option
 KH> in MMAIL.RC doesn't work, in this version

Yes, it does. (See the effect of "QuoteWrapCols: 50" here.) Note that this
is applied only to newly quoted material, and not to old quotes, nor to new
text you enter. Again, that's intentional.

If you want to wrap your new text, you'll either have to do it in your text
editor, or let it happen at 80 columns -- with QWK, that is; in Blue Wave
mode, it never wraps. That's part of the reason why it works this way.

If you want to rewrap old quotes (i.e., previously quoted material that
you're copying again), you'll have to do it manually. Better yet, leave
them out; second- or higher-level quotes are rarely needed. (Perhaps I
should add an option to strip them automatically, or even make that the
default behavior.)

 KH> P.S. On my wish list: option to sort
 KH> messages by date/time.

I don't plan on that, because it's complicated and unreliable to parse the
dates (not in QWK, but it is in BW and others), and the "Number" sort
should already be close enough for most purposes. It's actually the order
in which the messages came in the packet -- presumably the order in which
they're found in the BBS' message base. This should be close to date order.

 KH> P.P.S. Any comments on the spellchecking
 KH> .BAT ?

I'll leave that to someone who actually uses DOS and a spellchecker, since
I do neither.

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