Subj : htick and robots
To   : Deon George
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Thu Nov 05 2020 13:34:14

Hello Deon,

Thursday November 05 2020, Deon George wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Filefix processes messages from RobotsArea, or from the first netmail area if RobotsArea is not defined. Since you have many netmail areas, the only option for you is moving the messages to filefix to RobotsArea. So I think what you do is not a workaround, it is normal.

Michael

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