Subj : msg vs jam
To   : Rick Smith
From : Kai Richter
Date : Sun Jan 22 2023 01:29 pm

Hello Rick!

21 Jan 23, Rick Smith wrote to Stas Mishchenkov:

 KR>>> Does that updates the dupes database too?

 RS> yeah it didnt so my system sent out a few hundred dupes, many
 RS> apologies who ever that impacted.

I'm sorry that i was too late. Your topic touches two issues.
Msgbase conversion and archive mail handling.

I was looking for msgbase converters that could handle hudson, squish, JAM and msg and i found that there are no converter because they are not needed.
It's all there but unseen like the missed forest for the trees.

There is a special the FTN format that was created for that kind of mail exchange. Just use PKT. Any FTN tosser should be able to read and write PKT because it's the common mail exchange format between ftn systems.

Whatever tosser is yours, the mail conversion is the process to
use source format tosser to export PKT
use destination tosser to import PKT to your msgbase format.

For archive mail handling i suggest to think about a seperate archive areas.
The build structure depends on your favorits, some prefer archive.fidosoft.husky others like fidosoft.husky.archive.

For some real big echos you may need more than one because of some msgbase format limitations.

They all should be local echoareas without external links. One of the reasons for localecho is how complete your input data is. There is a strip seenby function in squish and maybe other tossers to save disk space. Your input data could be without seenby informations. When tossed they would go to any system (if they do not have old/bomb mail protection). A localecho would protect your network from your mail bombs. :)

Regards

Kai

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