Subj : Re: Trialing FMail/lnx status check-in
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sat Sep 09 2017 18:21:22

Hi Paul,

On 2017-09-09 21:49:00, you wrote to me:

 PQ> ... Anyway, I have a tall tale to tell...

 PQ> This morning I modified GoldEd's config over to reading the FMail config
 PQ> rather than an Areas.Bbs file exported from it, after I found & re-enabled
 PQ> the GoldEd config switch to convert DOS paths to a Linux one in tosser 
area
 PQ> config files.  (It took a little fine-tuning but in the end it worked.)
 PQ> So, after doing the right thing with the scan always FMail switch, I went
 PQ> through the motions of another post test.  GoldEd created the echomail.jam
 PQ> file like this...

 PQ> --- 8< ---
 PQ> C:\opt\ftn\fido\msgbase\fmail_help 867
 PQ> --- 8< ---

 PQ> Which is fine since the FMail envar translation will convert it back to a
 PQ> Linux path.  (I say back because FMail initially sucked in the Areas.Bbs
 PQ> file from CM II, _with_ Linux paths.  And they stuck!  FMail's area 
manager
 PQ> has Linux paths!)  So, running the sendmail.sh produced...

 PQ> --- 8< ---
 >> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  FMail-lnx32-2.1.0.18-Beta20170905 - Scan
 >> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Echomail message, area FMAIL_HELP
 >> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Update /opt/ftn/fido/outbound/02800180.hlo
 >> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Mail bundle already going from 3:640/1384 to
 >> 3:640/384 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Netmail: 0,  Personal: 0,  Hudson: 0,
 >> JAMbase: 1 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Msgbase net: 0, echo: 1, dup: 0,
 >> bad: 0 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Scan Active: 0.162 sec.
 PQ> --- 8< ---

 PQ> Neat, huh?

Yes, looks all good!

Bye, Wilfred.

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