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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.       --               Regards       David              --- Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunde        * Origin: Point thereof. (3:640/305)    |
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