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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
|    oxp: sysop mode    |
|    16 Mar 21 09:21:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet ee781496       REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet ee7a2132       PID: OpenXP/5.0.49 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0400       Hello Martin!              ** On Tuesday 16.03.21 - 09:22, Martin wrote to August:               MF> The way it works is, that instead of polling the BossNode        MF> for mail, OpenXP creates a mail packet/bundle in whatever        MF> directory has been assigned as the "outbound". It's then up        MF> to the Node to transfer the mail packet/ bundle to their        MF> secure inbound in their mailer setup and then run their        MF> tosser to pack mail for uplinks/downlinks.              I suppose that might have been practical when binkd wasn't a        built-in feature of the program?              Even so, it's almost a shame that oxp can't be configured to        operate as a standalone "sysop/nodelisted" node. All the        capability is there.       --        ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.49        * Origin: The ONLY point that matters! --> . <-- (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305 154/10       SEEN-BY: 203/0 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 664       SEEN-BY: 229/1016 1017 240/5832 249/110 206 317 400 280/464 5003 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 288/100 292/854 8125 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/81 120 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 221/1 280/464 229/101 426           |
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