Subj : htick and robots
To   : Michael Dukelsky
From : Deon George
Date : Thu Nov 05 2020 16:02:30

Hey Michael,

I see you doing lots of updates to husky (awesome), so wondered if you could also fix a problem that I see.

(Or let me know what I'm doing wrong.)

I have multiple networks, and use multiple netmailareas. (I needed to use multiple, so that makenl posts of nodelist updates go out correctly.)

So, to handle areafix requests, I also have a netmail area for areafix and filefix messages:

netmailarea robots            /fido/msgbase/robots                -b Jam -p 30
robotsarea  robots

While requests to htick (from any network) work and are processed correctly, messages to filefix do not.

I'm working from memory, but I think the problem is that incoming messages to a robot (eg: filefix), get put in the network netmail area, not the robot netmail area, and thus they dont get processed.

My work around at the moment is via perl, I copy messages to filefix back into the robots area, so they get processed.

Happy to provide more debugging or detail if this is something you can fix...

....лоеп

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