Subj : Squish Areafix
To   : mark lewis
From : Joe Davis
Date : Thu Jul 31 2003 03:40 am



Hi Mark,  :)


 JD>>             Somehow, Squish magically tosses to the right
 JD>> area... not sure how... thats another story.  :)

 JD>>      But, having more than one netmail area, and using SqaFix,
 JD>> requires one to use something like FTrack or NetMgr, to scan
 JD>> for, locate and move netmails for SqaFix to the one msgarea
 JD>> that it can scan.

 ml> wouldn't that be covered by having different configs for each 
 ml> network?

Not sure of your meaning yet.

Do you mean a different Squish.cfg for each network?
    ...hmmmm....   I don't think so.


I found what was in the back of my mind, when I used the term   magically.  :)

This is from an original Squish.cfg:

; Every system must have at least one NetArea.  You can declare
; more NetAreas if you like (and Squish will scan all of them when
; packing mail).  All inbound NetMail will be placed into
; this area.

If you have it handy, have a look at it, so it is not out of context.
I read it that the  "all inbound netmail will be placed into this area" is 
referring to the one netarea that this portion of Squish.cfg comments is 
leading one to create.

I don't recall ever finding in Squish.doc, an explanation of how to tell Squish 
to seperate and toss to different netmail areas, according to the Zone.

Venturing a guess, Squish does it based on some sort of Zone matching, based on 
if it finds a    -p  .

Like this:

NetArea  FN_Net   e:\mypathhere  -$ -p1:261/1380 
NetArea  STN_Net  e:\mypathhere  -$ -p111:4025/105
..
..
..
and so on



What do you think?  possible?   probable... ?



 ml> seems to me that sqafix is based kinda like FD and others... i have a 
 ml> main netmail area that is for the mailer and tools... all netmail 
 ml> passes thru it... however, on the bbs, there are seperate netmail 
 ml> areas for each of the networks... what i do is to run the areafix 
 ml> stuff before tossing the messages into the other netmail areas... 
 ml> rather than running something to bring them back out...


I'm not super-familiar with FD.

But I tend to think of them as way different.   I can see what you mean... you 
toss all to *.msg area first.   Then move it around.   
I got used to Squish seperating then on the first toss.

With a Bink Style system,  the mailer itself does not make *.msg necessary, so 
I can toss right to a Squish type netmail area the first time around.  

Btw, I do have a *.msg area too.  :)   BRE, for example, needs it.
For those that have no need for a *.msg area though, its nice to just toss it 
to the individual netmail area when first tossing.


What do you use to move your netmail around, after it is first tossed?




                                        ......Joe

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