Subj : Netmail in the insecure inbound
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Matthias Hertzog
Date : Wed May 05 2021 09:38:25

Hello Wilfred!

 MH>> I've agreed with all my links/feeds, that we deliver eachother
 MH>> uncompressed and that's it.

 WV> I sometimes turn on compression for links that are offline for a bit
 WV> longer then 1 or 2 days. Because with the high frequent tossing that
 WV> happens today, the outbound directories quickly fill up with hundreds
 WV> of .pkt files, which I don't like. With compression turned on there
 WV> are at most 7 files for each (offline) node waiting to be send. When
 WV> they become connectable again I turn compression back off...

That's a nice idea, but forces manual intervention in most cases.
Packed echomail is a bad idea with the high frequenies as one will
run out of file extensions after 36 polls. (.WE0-9 + .WEA-Z).

Having unpacked for offline systems is a pain in the outbound, but
having compressed for active nodes is a pain as well.

My solution: uncompressed & not looking in the outbound too often.

Matthias
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