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   David Drummond to Paul Quinn   
   you mean it is accessable?   
   14 Oct 12 19:21:42   
   
   On 14/10/12 6:20 PM, Paul Quinn -> David Drummond wrote:   
      
    DD>> 6.7 Netmail   
    DD>> -----------   
    DD>> JamNNTPd now also supports netmail. In netmail areas, users can only   
    DD>> read messages to or from one of the names configured in the   
    DD>> jamnntpd.users file.   
      
    DD>> Replies to netmails are handled transparently and the name and   
    DD>> address of the recipient are taken from the original message. When a   
    DD>> user wants to write a new netmail, the name and address of the   
    DD>> recipient are specified on the first line of the new message using   
    DD>> this format:   
      
    DD>>  To: name,address   
      
    DD>> Example:   
      
    DD>>  To: Johan Billing, 2:15/87   
      
    DD>> A To: line can also be used to specify an alternative recipient in   
    DD>> both netmail and echomail areas.   
      
    PQ> You know, I had forgotten all about the basics.  Thanks for that.  Does   
    PQ> it (the second method) work from an ordinary echo/group?   
      
   I understand that it addresses the message to a particular person in that echo   
   (still a public message).   
      
    PQ> I did find that Tommi's solution seemed to work quite well.  I made a   
    PQ> netmail reply to Benny from this echo on your server, just by changing   
    PQ> the newsgroup name to "NETMAIL" on the Thunderbird form.  JamNNTPd   
    PQ> filled in the rest when it saved the message to your disk.  I've tracked   
    PQ> the netmail's movement through my node in the logs, on its way to Ricky.   
      
    PQ> What the original doco (the section you quoted) talks about is working   
    PQ> entirely in the netmail area/group, when reading & writing netmails... I   
    PQ> think.   
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   Regards   
   David   
      
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