Hi Tom,   
      
   On 03 Dec 13 08:07, Tom De Puysseleyr wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:   
     about: "Re: fmail not packing crash-netmail?":   
      
    WV>> My crash.bat contains the following line:   
      
    WV>> c:\fd\Fmail\FMailW32.exe pack * /C   
      
    TDP> I am still having some questions about this. In my batch-file that's   
    TDP> executed after I write netmail, I use the above command. When I write a   
    TDP> normal (routed) netmail and pack it like that, it creates a .flo file for   
    TDP> the destination instead of following the packing rules in fsetup. Is it   
    TDP> supposed to do that?   
      
   I found that out the hardway myself. :-/   
      
   For regular routed netmail you first have do a "normal" pack:   
      
   c:\fd\Fmail\FMailW32.exe pack   
      
   This leaves the netmails with crash status alone. You could have this followed   
   by the line with /C in your automatic batch files. I have a seperate batch   
   file for crashing netmails, that I only use manual, as I don't often send   
   crash netmails...   
      
    TDP> Also, Michiel let me know that I delivered a normal netmail directly   
    TDP> to him this way, but that it wasn't processed because it was packed   
    TDP> and his system doesn't process these packed mails (without password)   
    TDP> for security reasons.   
      
   Most do it this way. My system as well. I have to manually check my non-secure   
   inbound directory for mail packets that aren't processed. I don't do this   
   often because I hardly get any. And that's why I haven't automated it. So   
   there could be a delay if people send me mail this way... ;)   
      
    TDP> In fmail I saw in the node manager that there's a switch to specify   
    TDP> if netmail should be packed or not. But I didn't see a general switch   
    TDP> for nodes not in the node manager. This means that when I send a   
    TDP> netmail to anyone in the nodelist (and who is not in my node manager   
    TDP> in fmail), that netmail will be packed, and will not be processed by   
    TDP> these secure systems. Am I right?   
      
   There is a clue about this in de FMail doc:   
      
   4.4       Pack   
      
   [...] Packing messages is not required (but sometimes   
   useful) in e.g. a FrontDoor environment. It _is_ required in a   
   Binkley/PoP environment.   
      
   So if you want to send your crash netmails unpacked, unfortunately you have to   
   use something else than FMail. Or do some processing after FMail creates such   
   a packed packet.   
      
   I'm not sure why this is. If it's a thing that can't be avoided, or something   
   that the original author of FMail choose to do this way. I haven't looked into   
   it...   
      
   Wilfred.   
      
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