Subj : Re: Trialing FMail/lnx status check-in
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Sep 08 2017 12:13:36

Hi Nicholas,

On 2017-09-07 20:45:24, you wrote to Paul Quinn:

 NB> Is that some sort of separate option or setting? I can only seem to
 NB> recall areatag-esque filenames created by FastEcho when I used it some
 NB> ages ago. At least I don't remember any tosser I've ever used making
 NB> filenames like that by default.

FMail uses the area tag for auto created areas. But filters out characters that 
conflict with filesystems (like : / \), and I also changed it to convert 
uppercase to lowercase a while back, in preperation of the linux version...

 NB> This is probably where I was confused when originally setting up FMail
 NB> with an areas.bbs. I suppose I've just seen way too many different
 NB> formats of areas.bbs to know which is actually the _correct_ one.

What I've seen is that every software uses it's own format, so is there a 
"correct" one? Certainly the ftsc hasn't documented one...

 NB> Right. It was the areas.bbs format you had above that confused me, not
 NB> the echomail.jam format. Have you tried a test post on an echo not
 NB> cloned from FE to see if echomail.jam is read properly?

echomail.jam was read correctly! (If that wasn't clear yet?) ;)


Bye, Wilfred.

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