Subj : File Attached netmails how to handle
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Nick Boel
Date : Mon Nov 24 2025 07:33 am

Hey Wilfred!

On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:09:52 +0100, you wrote:

 SR>> Is there something I should have in the node setup to send file
 SR>> attached netmail. When doing a pack, it never touches them

 > That's correct, FMail doesn't touch those.

 > It's kind of historic, because in Frontdoor mode, frontdoor itself
 > handled those netmails. It was never implemented for BSO mode.

If FMail supports fileboxes:

Fileboxes per link can be used in BSO mode where anything put in said directory (usually manually) would be sent to the link. This is how many people have worked with door game leagues that create netmail attach files that need to be sent to the hub, using BSO.

So in Sean's case, if he knows where this/these netmail attach files are supposed to be going, he can setup a filebox for that link, and manually move the file into that directory so it gets sent the the proper system.

On the other hand, if they do not /need/ to get sent anywhere, then they are being created for no reason, and can be deleted.

Probably not the same situation, but the reasoning applies still:

When I ran a door game league, I would get those in my inbound all the time (door game outbound maintenance would create them, and the link would send the entire contents of their game's outbound directory which included the netmail attach files, but are unnecessary when the hub uses BSO). I just had a script setup to delete them when the game packets were processed, as there was no use for them.

Regards,
Nick

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