On 01 Jan 70 00:00, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    MK>>> It's possible that this has been answered already and I missed it.   
    MK>>> The only outbound that works with my irex and fastecho is netmail   
    MK>>> and mailbox directories.   
      
    ml>> ok... only outbound...   
      
    RW>> [????]   
      
    ml> MK's second line quoted above... "the only outbound that works"...   
      
    MK>>> Everything else ends up in the appopriate directory but is never   
    MK>>> tossed.   
      
    ml>> hunh? tossed is for inbound traffic...   
      
    RW>> outbound doesn't get tossed? Really?   
      
    ml> right... outbound is /scanned/ from the message bases... inbound is   
    ml> /tossed/ into the message bases...   
      
   Outbound is scanned and then 'tossed' into a zipped file here. Ok packed.   
      
    ml>>  you were just talking about outbound... i'm confused :?   
      
    MK>>> I recieve just fine.  As a note, one of my email passwords was   
    MK>>> corrupted so I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to start   
    MK>>> from scratch.   
      
    ml>> irex has been known to get corrupted by looking at it sideways...   
      
    RW>> Could that be because it's the linux version? I've never seen a   
    RW>> corrupted windows version here and I've used Irex for at least 12,   
    RW>> maybe 15 years now. In fact, if you leave the configs alone once   
    RW>> they're working properly, Irex continues to run for weeks and   
    RW>> months without interuption.   
      
    ml> i don't know what flavors the hundreds of complaints over the years   
    ml> have spoken about... i do seem to recall you having problems at one   
    ml> point and having to put a backup of your configs in place...   
      
   I don't keep backups...never have. Sometimes I wish that I had, but   
   chasing the problem and fixing it makes for more familiarity with the   
   program...I did have to re-install it once, but that was due to a HD   
   crash. Fortunately, I had a tendency to keep links and passwords in a text   
   file for just such a purpose.   
      
    ml>> everyone i know that uses it gets their configs right and then makes   
    ml>> copies of them to put back in place the next time they get   
    ml>> corrupted.   
      
    RW>> I don't, because there is no need.   
      
    ml> hummm...   
      
    ml>> .. the real question is why do they get corrupted in the   
    ml>> first place... starting clean won't prevent the corruption from what   
    ml>> i've read over the years...   
      
    RW>> I had Irex stop working lately, but it was due to a switch being   
    RW>> changed that was the cause. It now sits in the 'tray' waiting for a   
    RW>> connect on the 24555 port that it is listening to. That won't   
    RW>> happen until I find the password to the router to make a change   
    RW>> there.   
      
    ml>  :) good thing i changed it for ya, eh? O:)   
      
   Nobody could have done that. That password is tucked away in a secure and   
   encrypted file and only the re-installation of the program that wrote it   
   can bring it back. I'm debating that, since the only need for it now is to   
   look up those websites and passwords and write them into a text file. The   
   program was incompatable and obsoleted by Firefox over two years ago.   
      
      
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