Subj : Trialing FMail/lnx - Phase 4
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Sep 16 2017 23:48:16

Hello Paul,

On Sunday September 17 2017 07:17, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 PQ>>> You had better tell FTools then.  It has a 'post' function
 PQ>>> sporting a '-r' switch (I wasn't using it... honest).

 WvV>> That's about creating a filerequest message, not about handling
 WvV>> it...

 PQ> Fascinating.  That's what they mean by the term conundrum, I guess.
 PQ> Why create something that cannot be handled by itself at a later
 PQ> stage?  Mmm...

It is a relic from the past. Fmail was originally designed in a FrontDoor like 
environment. In a Frontdoor environment creating a file attach message makes 
sense. The Frontdoor environment is also called AMA (Arc Mail Attach). Files 
are always send as file attach. There is a message associated with every file 
transfer.  Also with a file request.

In a BSO environment things work different. The mailer only knows about files. 
It does not directly deal with messages, that is left to the tosser or packer.

 WvV>> Ok it could be done, maybe in the pack function, or maybe in a
 WvV>> seperate function. It doesn't seem all that hard... But it was
 WvV>> never implemented by the original author, and never came up
 WvV>> before in the 10 years I'm involved with the source code. I
 WvV>> could put it on "the list", but it wouldn't be a high priority
 WvV>> item...

 PQ> Nice.  Even at priority #99 it is still on 'the list'.  :)  Thank you.

Have you tried to manually create a *.req file. If you ever dealt with hex, it 
shoukd not be hard...


Cheers, Michiel

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