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|    Tommi Koivula to August Abolins    |
|    U, ENC    |
|    04 Jan 20 10:15:34    |
      MSGID: 2:221/360.0 5e1049a2       REPLY: 2:221/360.0 5e0fd51c       PID: JamNNTPd/OS2 1.3 20191227       TID: GE/2 1.2       CHRS: CP850 2       TZUTC: 0200       On 04.01.2020 1:58, August Abolins : Tommi Koivula :              > …WV>> And in fidonet some systems wouldn't allow encrypted routed       > …WV>> netmail messages to pass their systems... I remember there       > …WV>> was a lot of discussion going on about that at the time.       >       > …TK> Yes, there was a lot discussion in finnish echos too.       >       > …TK> ,U,ENC. :)       >       > How is that supposed to be interpreted?… The nodelist just says "node       > accepts inbound encrypted mail".… And, is encrypted mail only supported       > *between* nodes that _both_ have ENC specified?              There is no nodelist flag that tells NOT to accept encrypted mail.              So my node will accept encrypted mail and will forward it but you cannot know       how the next hop treats it.              Please test. :D              'Tommi              --- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101       Thunderbird/68.3.1        * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 19/10 90/1 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 227/114 229/426       SEEN-BY: 229/1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 221/360 1 280/464 229/426           |
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