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Hello, All.

I've a registered copy of FastEcho 1.46p1 (the last update). I want to try using it, but there was some sort of bug that has to do with it and BT-style outbounds. Does anyone know about this and how to fix it?

Later,
Sean

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Sean Dennis wrote to All:

I've a registered copy of FastEcho 1.46p1 (the last update). I want to try using it, but there was some sort of bug that has to do with it and BT-style outbounds. Does anyone know about this and how to fix it?

I used FE for a number of years with both BT and ArcMail attach. Both
worked just fine for me.. I don't recall having any troble with either
method.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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I've a registered copy of FastEcho 1.46p1 (the last update). I
want to try using it, but there was some sort of bug that has to do
with it and BT-style outbounds. Does anyone know about this and
how to fix it?

IIRC, the p1 version is the bugfix version for that problem... one of us would have to check my fileareas to verify that, though ;)

[time]

i see pl1 as being for the Pack -p ignoring netmail messages with some certain ^aFLAGS being set...

dunno anything more than that as i run FD style... i just love the dynamic on-the-fly packing that it does when schedules change and/or netmails are edited and saved ;)

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Hello, mark.

Monday June 08 2009 at 22:23, you wrote to me:

dunno anything more than that as i run FD style... i just love the
dynamic on-the-fly packing that it does when schedules change and/or netmails are edited and saved ;)

FD's fine if you're not running a network like I am; if you lose mail, you lose
everything and not just a couple of packets. If I wasn't running my own network, I'd use a dynamic mailer.

Later,
Sean

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dunno anything more than that as i run FD style... i just love the
dynamic on-the-fly packing that it does when schedules change and/or netmails are edited and saved ;)

FD's fine if you're not running a network like I am;

i've never had any problems with the 2 or three networks i run here...

/me scratches head...

if you lose mail, you lose everything and not just a couple of
packets. If I wasn't running my own network, I'd use a dynamic
mailer.

hunh?? FD rebuilds everything from the netmail messages in the netmail area... i'm confused, i think... aren't i?

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Hello, mark.

Wednesday June 10 2009 at 21:45, you wrote to me:

hunh?? FD rebuilds everything from the netmail messages in the netmail area... i'm confused, i think... aren't i?

No, you're right. What I'm saying is that if you lose the netmail messages, you lose all of your mail. I prefer to have my mail stored away from my netmail messages, heh. I've had things blow up on me a few times that caused me to shy away from ARCmail mailers, but if it works for you, that's great. I did use SGMail for a while but I found that the utilities I like to use with my
board didn't work with a dynamic mailer, so I've stuck with BT for over a decade now.

Later,
Sean

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HI Sean,

On Wed 2037-Jun-10 22:27, Sean Dennis (1:18/200) wrote to mark lewis:

hunh?? FD rebuilds everything from the netmail messages in the netmail area... i'm confused, i think... aren't i?

No, you're right. What I'm saying is that if you lose the netmail messages, you lose all of your mail. I prefer to have my mail
stored away from my netmail messages, heh. I've had things blow up
on me a few times that caused me to shy away from ARCmail mailers,

INdeed, same could be said if you accidentally bomb a flo
file too though.

Imho were I running a dynamic mailer I"d have a netmail area for me and users, which I could then have netmgr or some
other like utility move to the primary netmail area where my mailer could then see and act upon it. OTher than that,
when it came to managing it, the mailer would do all that.
I could go through the human accessible nm area and kill
received msgs, etc. when/if I chose and not worry about
messing up system operations. That would be my cure for
that potential problem anyway.

I stick with this one because I'm used to how it works.
When/if I can do something for transporting fidonet traffic
over internet here I'll probably reevaluate and then stick
with the concept I'm familiar with.

I did that for awhile anyway back in the day just to
separate users' netmail from mine, and to have a squish
style netmail area but needed *.msg style nm area for raid
iirc.


Regards,
Richard
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Richard Webb wrote to Sean Dennis:

Imho were I running a dynamic mailer I"d have a netmail area for me and users, which I could then have netmgr or some
other like utility move to the primary netmail area where my mailer could then see and act upon it. OTher than that,
when it came to managing it, the mailer would do all that.
I could go through the human accessible nm area and kill
received msgs, etc. when/if I chose and not worry about
messing up system operations. That would be my cure for
that potential problem anyway.

I ran FD with RA when I first setup years ago. I found it to be an
excellent mailer. It's much like BinkleyTerm or other mailers in
that it will go right ahead and do what you tell it to.. :)

The only reason I moved on to BinkleyTerm was to have a look, and
I stuck with it during my dial-up days. I used Portal Of Power
to, I rather liked that one.

I stick with this one because I'm used to how it works.
When/if I can do something for transporting fidonet traffic
over internet here I'll probably reevaluate and then stick
with the concept I'm familiar with.

If you ever do need an IP mailer I would use Binkd. It uses the
Binkley style outbound to. You could use both binkleyTerm and
Binkd on the same outbound. You can just add the nodes you want
binkd to send to to it's config and it'll send those and not touch
the other stuff.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hi Alan,

On Thu 2037-Jun-11 13:30, Alan Ianson (1:153/757) wrote to Richard Webb:

I ran FD with RA when I first setup years ago. I found it to be an excellent mailer. It's much like BinkleyTerm or other mailers in
that it will go right ahead and do what you tell it to.. :)

I found this to be true as well. Ran fd for a short time on my point setup to learn how to use it because I was helping
a couple of local sysops get fido connected, this was over a decade ago btw.

I'm more comfortable with text file configuration so
binkleyterm is a better fit for me.

When/if I can do something for transporting fidonet traffic
over internet here I'll probably reevaluate and then stick
with the concept I'm familiar with.

If you ever do need an IP mailer I would use Binkd. It uses the
Binkley style outbound to. You could use both binkleyTerm and Binkd
on the same outbound. You can just add the nodes you want binkd to
send to to it's config and it'll send those and not touch the other
stuff.

YEp, gathered that from a sample config I've seen, but am
still looking for complete docs in something other than a
graphical file format. I haven't found any ascii docs which is the only real compatible thing that would do me any good. Also, no way to utilize it at this time anyway, so rather
immaterial for me. But, when I'm able to I"ll probably look more seriously for
ascii docs.

Regards,
Richard
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