On 2017 Jun 13 20:15:22, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:   
      
    Wv>> But I don't use a hudson area for my netmail, I keep them all as   
    Wv>> *.msg's. So I don't know how that would work out exactly, with a   
    Wv>> hudson netmail area. And so I don't use the 'import' funciton of   
    Wv>> FMail:   
      
    PH> Aha OK thanks.. :)   
      
    PH> Yes the import works OK and I thought I needed to do that but perhaps   
    PH> I was wrong? So how do you read your *.msgs ? Do you use GoldEd?   
      
   don't be confused about the netmail areas... if one is running a BBS, they   
   would generally use their tosser's netmail import and export features so their   
   users can have access to netmail... you don't always want all netmails   
   imported, though... as a sysop, i prefer to keep my netmails out of the BBS...   
   they get moved to a special private netmail area solely for me... then there   
   are the general netmails used by the mailers and tossers to communicate with   
   others... areafix and allfix messages fall into this category... they can stay   
   in the mailer's netmail area if it has one, al la frontdoor... the mailer's   
   netmail area is for the mailer and the tosser to communicate... netmails   
   between humans really belong in another netmail area solely for human access ;)   
      
   in my processing, i generally run the areafix and allfix commands first so   
   those netmails are handled... then netmails to me are moved and finally any   
   remaining netmails to users are imported into the BBS... then i run the toss   
   command... this is one of the reasons why i extract the PKTs from the   
   bundles... if i didn't do that, i'd have to dance the netmail dance again   
   after the tossing plus it allows the new mail to be added to the areafix   
   response and start the mail flowing immediately instead of after the next   
   tossing session...   
      
   my workflow may not be the same as others' workflow but it seems to flow   
   logically for my wants, needs and desires :)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
   Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it   
   wrong...   
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