Subj : Squish/Linux and MSG files
To   : Bob Jones
From : Sean Rima
Date : Sat Nov 01 2003 09:44 pm

Hello Bob,

On 01/Nov/03 at 11:48 you wrote:

 SR> That is what I thought and I route all my Zone 1 
 SR> netmails via 1:261/38 but they are still there. in the route.cfg I 
 SR> have:

 SR> Route   Normal     1:261/38  1:All

 BJ> One other WARNING about the above route statement....

 BJ> In ALL versions of Squish, a normal mail packet can be impacted by 
 BJ> later send or route statements.  It definately will be impacted if 
 BJ> the initial send or route statement uses NoArc.....  You can 
 BJ> consider the line 

 BJ>   Send Normal NoArc z:nnn/yyy

 BJ> a NO-OP in Squish.

 BJ> And the line:

 BJ>   Route Normal NoArc z:nnn/yyy 1:ALL

 BJ> or similar, followed by a line that processes mail for node 
 BJ> z:nnn/yyy (as if the previous line was not ther) will result in all 
 BJ> the routed mail being diverted to the new location.  

 BJ> I never got this point across to Scott as a "bug", so consider it a 
 BJ> "feature" of squish.....

 BJ> To solve the problem, use Crash, Hold or Direct when dealing with 
 BJ> non-archived mail packets, and be carefle with archived mail 
 BJ> packets....

I discovered this when I was sending mail for one node to another due to this 
:) Squish is a learning experince and if it were not for Bo then I wouldf not 
have started trying it :)




Cheers,
\Sean

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