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   Message 333 of 484   
   Marc Lewis to Torsten Bamberg   
   Re: No compression to one node   
   30 Oct 18 19:08:31   
   
   Hello Torsten.   
      
      
      
    ML> He would prefer to receive everything uncompressed, but I'm not sure   
    ML> that Squish can do this.   
    TB> Well, no, squish can't sent echomail uncompressed by default. But,   
    TB> if you define a different squish.cfg witout any packer defintions,   
    TB> all pakets will be uncompressed.   
      
   After reading throught the documentation, this is the same conclusion I came   
   to.  But switching back and forth for one Node would be, at best, impractical.   
      
    TB> If you want to sent netmail without compression, do a 'squish out'   
    TB> without 'squash'.   
      
   Yes, and the same is true for an EchoMail outbound scan, but the outbound   
   directory would become a nightmare. It's a Binkley style outbound and Binkley   
   doesn't recognise uncompressed packets IIRC; Internet Rex does, but tends to   
   miss some from time-to-time.   
      
    TB> Compressing mail was one of the main features of squish.   
      
   Indeed. It was, if I'm not mistaken, one of the first tossers that did it   
   automatically, first to the FidoNet ARC standard, then expanding out to handle   
   multiple archivers/unarchivers.   
      
   MarK Lewis pointed out that now-a-days it hardly makes sense to waste compute   
   cycles to archive outbound packets due to the connectivity via the internet   
   now commonly utilised; but still, there are traditional Binkley based mailers   
   that require compressed mail bundles with their attendant .?LO files. I still   
   have users that come in over POTS line and get their mail and others that   
   telnet into the system to Binkley and pick up mail that way. I'm just going to   
   leave everything alone... It's been working for the last 25 years with few   
   major failures.  :-)    
      
    TB> Possibly hpt/fastecho can handle uncompressed mail, but I really   
    TB> don't know this, because im not using one of them.   
      
   Every one that I can think of does so, in fact, I believe it's an FTS   
   requirement.   
      
   Best regards - Herzliche Gre,   
   Marc   
      
   --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Sursum Corda! BBS-Huntsville,AL-bbs.sursum-corda.com (1:396/45)   

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