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|    Message 830 of 1,004    |
|    Martin Foster to Tim Schattkowsky    |
|    Inactive uplinks    |
|    03 Feb 23 10:42:38    |
      MSGID: 2:280/464.27 2c654e04       CHRS: UTF-8 4       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 2:310/31.6 1bc76704       Hello Tim!              *** Tuesday 10.01.23 2:28:39, Tim Schattkowsky wrote to Martin Foster:               MF>> Pressed F12, clicked the "Uplinks" Tab, selected an uplink, clicked the        MF>> "Properties" button and then clicked the "Inactive" radio button. Then        MF>> clicked on the "Inactive" uplink in the "Poll" button pulldown and much        MF>> to my surprise, WinPoint polled the "Inactive" uplink. Looking at the        MF>> logfile for the session, I note that a "non-secure" session was        MF>> established. Hmmmmm, I don't see the point in polling an "Inactive"        MF>> uplink, perhaps I'm missing something?               TS> Jup.              Yeah, thought so ;)               TS> You poll a system, not an uplink. A system is just a BBS you can call.              OK, fair comment.               TS> So when the uplink is disabled, no mail is exported for the uplink (among        TS> other things) and when you poll the system respective AKA for that        TS> particular uplink is not presented and no mail is sent.              Mail is not received either, which is pretty obvious, as the session password       is not presented.               TS> That is the intended behaviour.              OK, fine.               TS> So enssentially disabling an uplink is meant to stop WinPoint from        TS> sending an mail using that network address.              Ah, Aha, NOW I understand and thanks for the explanation :)              Regards,       Martin              --- WinPoint 411.0        * Origin: WinPoint Test Rig - UK - (2:280/464.27)       SEEN-BY: 15/0 106/201 124/5016 153/757 7715 203/0 221/0 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 111 112 113 114 307 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 266/512 280/464 5003 5555 282/1038 292/854 8125 301/1 310/31       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 341/66 234 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848       PATH: 280/464 292/854 229/426           |
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