Subj : Re: Test from uplink
To   : Tommi Koivula
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed Nov 03 2021 18:22:17

Hi Tommi,

On 2021-11-03 18:04:05, you wrote to me:

 >>   ??>>>> AREA:FIDOTEST
 >>   ??>>>> @Via 2:280/464 @20211102.230544.970.UTC FMail-lnx64(Toss)
 >>   ??>>>> 2.1.0.18-B20170815
 >>   TK>>> Via line in echomail? Is this some Fmail internal thing for
 >> dupearea?
 >>   WV>> Indeed it is. They are added to messages that are moved to the
 >> dupes
 >>   WV>> area. So you know the exact time the dupe arrived/was-processed,
 >>   WV>> without having to dive in the logs. A Via kludge line seems
 >>   WV>> appropriate for this, because it already is a fidonet standard,
 >> for
 >>   WV>> this exact purpose. But maybe I should have "renamed" it to
 >> something
 >>   WV>> like "@Received" or "@Processed" to avoid these questions. ;-)

 TK> But what actually is the value of that @Via line? When saved the dupe
 TK> message to JAM base the time stamp will stored there. And the node number
 TK> should be known.. :)

My dupes are in the Hudson database. It's also usefull when forwarding messages from the dupe database. That information would be lost if you forwarded from a Jam database (without the kludge).

Bye, Wilfred.

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