Subj : Re: Husky Config
To   : deon
From : Avon
Date : Tue Jan 12 2021 20:12:23

On 12 Jan 2021 at 04:35p, deon pondered and said...
 
 de> /etc/ftn/config:netmailarea robots            /fido/msgbase/robots      
 de>   -b Jam -p 30

is robots netmail area defined in config using some additional keyword(s)?
I'm guessing yes. Just wondering how it knows to drop areafix messages there?

 de> /etc/ftn/net/fsxnet/areas:netmailarea FSX_NETMAIL
 de> /fido/makenl/21/netmail -b Msg -a 21:3/100

So only fsx is set to Msg base type but the others all seem to be JAM so I'm
picking only fsx is getting that makenl treatment you mentioned?

 de> there at all, because I have the hub "unattended" and if you netmail
 de> anybody at the hub, you'll get a "bounce message" saying "nobody at the
 de> hub". But what does end up there are the pings and any messages from
 de> husky about areas being autocreated - which I need to re-direct...)

...and that's due to some other scripting you have in place - right?

 de> For makenl to work, it creates a MSG netmail in the "messages" path of
 de> makenl.ctl, so with this area configured as a "-b Msg" for husky, it
 de> sees those outgoing messages in hpt pack and sends them out. (I have a
 de> makenl.ctl for each zone in it's own subdirectory, and in that
 de> subdirectory is a "netmail" area.)

...and these netmail areas are also used by you to reply to any netmails sent
to your HUB addresses? I can understand why you may place them as sub dirs in
makenl... I'm not sure I will but rather place them as sub dirs in a
/msgs/nmail folder instead I think... not 100% sure.. will keep pondering.

In my current makenl setup the software exports the messages to my hub
echomail\in folder and Fastecho picks them up, processes them and sends info
either to me or my Fido uplink.

 de> Filefix messages are "posted" to the robots area with my filter in
 de> husky's config file "hptperlfile     /usr/local/tools/filter.pl"

how is this file run? is it each time on incoming toss etc. can called within
a .sh file somehow?

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