On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Kurt Weiske wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    ML>> allfix announce   
      
    KW> Mark, thanks again for the pointer.   
      
   you are welcome... it is exactly what is used to announce new files that have   
   been processed...   
      
    KW> I have another question I was hoping you or someone else could    
    KW> answer, as I've been playing around with ALLFIX to no avail.    
      
    KW> I'm running Synchronet. With regards to report format, you can   
    KW> select Hudson. PKT, *.MSG, Ezycom, Jam, Squish, and others. I've   
    KW> played with PKT and *.MSG to get a packet that SBBSecho will import   
    KW> into one of my file echoes, but to no avail.   
      
   you should be able to use PKT and simply have your sbbsecho toss them... most   
   traditional FTN systems have several directories related to mail tossing...   
   one of them is known as the "secure" area where only truly known secure pkts   
   are placed for tossing... this is NOT the same directory as the secure inbound   
   from the mailer... this particular secure or trusted directory holds PKTs that   
   you absolutely know where they were created... PKTs like those created by your   
   allfix announce... you would tell allfix to put the PKTs in that secure   
   directory and then the tosser will toss them...   
      
   perhaps sbbsecho has some method to import/toss posts in PKTs that are from    
   one of its addresses?? or possibly you can set allfix up with a point address    
   which sbbsecho will then import the reports from the PKTs??   
      
    KW> I use SMBUTIL to import other log files in text format into   
    KW> Synchronet's message bases, and it works well. Is there any way to   
    KW> get ALLFIX to output a report in text format only? Or a way to get   
    KW> its' reports into a Synchronet message base that I've missed?   
      
   one other possibility, which is quite twisted, would be to have allfix write   
   to some other message base and then you would use a tool to extract those   
   messages to a text file which you might then have smbutil import... what OS   
   are you running this on? as said, this is very twisted and extreme contortions   
   like this should not be necessary...   
      
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