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|    Wilfred van Velzen to Fermin Sanchez    |
|    Re: "correct" way for badmail, dupes, re    |
|    15 May 21 17:34:02    |
      TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815       RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes       TZUTC: 0200       CHRS: UTF-8 2       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221       MSGID: 2:280/464 609fed18       REPLY: 2:301/123 609fe56f       Hi Fermin,              On 2021-05-15 17:03:07, you wrote to All:               FS> Hello everybody!               FS> Just wanted to know how you all handle this. I went into "Miscellaneous -        FS> Message Base" and assigned them like this:        FS> ***        FS> Bad message board 1        FS> Dupl. message board 2        FS> Recovery board 3        FS> ***        FS> I also put the path to a new, previously empty directory into "Personal        FS> mail - Pers. mail path" to get copies of (echo area) mails sent to me.               FS> From what I could see, there's no way that GoldEd would pick those up        FS> automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in golded.cfg:        FS> ***        FS> AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS f:\fido\netmail        FS> AREADEF Personal "PERSONAL" A Net OPUS f:\fido\persmail        FS> AREADEF Badmail "BADMAIL" A Local Hudson 1        FS> AREADEF Dupes "DUPES" A Local Hudson 2        FS> AREADEF Recovery "RECOVERY" A Local Hudson 3        FS> ***        FS> (HUDSONPATH and JAMPATH are also configured; AutoExport generates       areas.gld        FS> in the golded directory)               FS> Am I overlooking something obvious, or is this the way to go? Because        FS> from what I understood, the "BBS area file path" found in the        FS> AutoExport settings is for, well, BBS configs, right?              I'm not sure I did something specific for this (it was a long time ago).       But my areas.gld (generated by FMail) contains all my areas FMail knows about,       including the netmail and hudson areas:              AREADEF NETMAIL "Netmail area" 0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\       . (Loc)       AREADEF SENT_RCVD "Sent/Received netmail" 0 Net FIDO        :\netmail\save\ . (R/O Loc)       AREADEF DUP_MSGS "Duplicate messages" 0 Local Hudson 199 . (R/O       Loc)       AREADEF BAD_MSGS "Bad messages" 0 Local Hudson 200 . (R/O       Loc)       AREADEF ADSL "ADSL" F       Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\adsl 2:280/464.0 (Loc)       AREADEF ALASKA_CHAT "ALASKA_CHAT" F       Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\alaska_chat 2:280/464.0 (Loc)       [...]              I haven't configured a "BBS area file path"...                     Bye, Wilfred.              --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815        * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/30 227/114 229/101 424 426 550 664       SEEN-BY: 229/700 1016 1017 240/5138 5411 5832 5853 249/206 317 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 5555 282/1038 292/854 8125 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1 2452/250       SEEN-BY: 2454/119       PATH: 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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