Subj : Re: Create message bases
To   : KAI RICHTER
From : Marceline Jones
Date : Sun Mar 14 2021 05:08 pm

 MJ> If I ran QuickBBS, then I would use Hudson. What is the point of
 MJ> running QBBS if not to use Hudson ?

 KR> Tell me why you don't run QBBS and maybe i have a chance to answer
 KR> your question. 

I do run QBBS. 

I do not like it because RemoteAccess is better.

 MJ> You are assuming the software has no bugs.

 KR> No. I assume that after years of fidonet wide operation routing bugs
 KR> would be known. 

I want to check it for myself.

 MJ> What if I want to check my packed messages match what the mailer's
 MJ> outbound queue says ?

 KR> If you do routing it does not match. That's the purpose of routing.
 KR> You send messages not to the destination but to another node. You will
 KR> have a destination mismatch between the messages and the envelope. 
 KR> And even if you suspect your routing software faulty your links would
 KR> use other software that has proved it's working because you can read
 KR> this routed mail. 

If I use an area manager and have downlinks subscribed to different echoes, I want to be able to check that the scanner is packing mail correctly for each downlink (ie. downlinks are only receiving messages from subscribed echoes). A packet inspector makes it easy to monitor the files in outbound.

 MJ> Except outbound directories contain files like "EFAABCFF.mo0".

 KR> Those files doesn't have something to do with routing. You need to
 KR> check to flowfiles which are responsible for the routing destination.
 KR> Those are simple ascii files readable by a simple text editor. 
 MJ> I want a nice user interface to scroll through and open such packets
 MJ> and check the message contents.

Those files definitely have something to do with routing.

In BSO-style outbound the file names and extensions control when and where the mailer sends files. When there are 50 files in outbound, a packet inspector makes it easy to check the intended routing.

 KR> Golded can't do this. Golded is a user editor that is in use after or
 KR> before those packed mail has been processed. 

Yes. This question was previously answered. But you insist on assuming there is no use to inspecting packets - which is wrong.

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