Subj : Netmail bot?
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Sun Aug 08 2004 10:12 am

Hi Sean,

 SD> Does anyone know of a netmail bot that will attach 
 SD> files to messages that it processes?  I've got NetMgr 
 SD> here but I can't seem to figure out how to attach files 
 SD> to messages.  I'm trying to set up a netmail bot to 
 SD> send out infopacks for my mail network.

There are a number of ways you can do this, it all depends on what S/W you are 
using and what you really wish to do -

  1. Maximus does this natively at the user level. Within the Message Editor, 
enable the File ATTACH attribute and the Subject: line then changes to a File: 
line for the Drive:\Path\Filename entry. Note that the Drive and Path details 
are stripped from the Subject: field in the output message, they are only used 
for the input of the file into the message itself.

  2. Squish can send files directly from the command line -
   Squishp send Drive:\Path\Filename zone:net/Node hold 
The file is then queued in the .FLO file for that node. Just watch out for any 
Routing changes on its path!!!

  3. Or you can use a utility such as Mpost (Mpost121.Zip, I think its tied in 
with Husky somehow). I use Mpost to post externally generated plain text 
messages to Netmail or Echomail areas and as it can set flags (such as ATTACH) 
on a message I think it also allows files to be attached as well, but I have 
not used that specific function. IIRC Mpost uses an external control file, not 
everything can be done from the commandline.

I use both 2 & 3 on a regular basis here to automate Nodelist Updating.

In ALL cases, YOU must ensure the target system, is expecting the file so they 
can handle it appropriately when it arrives, AND also note that fiels sent as 
attachments to messages are rarely able to pass through systems without some 
specific setup, because inbound path info is stripped from the message at the 
source system and only the filename is passed between systems.

Cheers.........pk.


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