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   PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/955e50fea Aug 10 2025 GCC 14.2.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.31-Linux master/d39e01091 Nov 03 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
   BBSID: PALANTIR   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
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   -=> Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-   
      
    > I am now seeing the value of this method...   
    > Would you mind sharing the scripts?  (don't need the MultiMail one).   
      
    Ac> Sure thing. As long as your on a personal computer, and don't share it   
    Ac> with others:   
      
    Ac> getpkt:   
      
    Ac> #!/bin/bash   
      
    Ac> cd /home/user/mmail/down   
    Ac> wget --ftp-user= --ftp-password=   
    Ac> ftp:///.qwk   
      
    Ac> cd /home/user/mmail   
      
    Ac> putpkt:   
      
    Ac> #!/bin/bash   
      
    Ac> cd /home/user/mmail/up   
      
    Ac> ftp -nv < open    
    Ac> user     
    Ac> bin   
    Ac> put .rep   
    Ac> quit   
    Ac> EOF   
      
    Ac> rm .rep   
      
    Ac> cd /home/user/mmail   
      
    Ac> Technically you could use the FTP method for both transfers (using   
    Ac> 'get' instead of put), but I did the script with 'wget' first, and soon   
    Ac> after realized 'wput' was a thing at some point, but isn't maintained   
    Ac> anymore and isn't in my distro's repositories.   
      
   Ack.   
      
    Ac> Change your paths to match your system, fill in your authentication   
    Ac> information, make them executable, and you're off to the races!   
      
   Yes, understood.  The "put" direction makes good sense to me.  I have a    
   question about the "get" side though - What causes the BBS to know to    
   pack up all the new messages into a QWK packet though?  Does just the    
   act of requesting .qwk cause that to happen?  I was thinking I'd    
   have to somehow "tell" the BBS to create the new QWK packet, and *then*    
   grab it with wget/ftp.   
      
    Ac> FYI, I don't remove the QWK packet, because I can do that in Multimail   
    Ac> once I'm done reading/replying. But I do remove the .REP packet after I   
    Ac> send it, otherwise the next time I run that script it'll send it again,   
    Ac> probably causing dupes. Unless there's some fancy numbering of .REP   
    Ac> packets Multimail does that I don't yet know about (I didn't read the   
    Ac> docs, I just figured MM out by mashing buttons, lol).   
      
   Understood, and I use MM that way too, just deleting the QWK packet as    
   I"m exiting MM after reading/replying.   
      
    Ac> Regards,   
    Ac> Nick   
      
   Appreciate you taking the time to send/explain this!  Thanks.   
      
   Dan   
      
      
      
      
   ... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.   
   --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52   
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