• File attachments...

    From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Digital Man on Wed Mar 22 01:05:00 2017
    Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity on 03-21-17 18:35 <=-

    Re: File attachments...
    By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Sun Mar 19 2017 08:05 pm

    Hiya DM...

    I'm not sure if this can be done but I tried it sending a netmail from my system through the HUB (located on the Pi) with a file attach.

    According to FTS-1, you're not supposed to be able to do this:

    2. Transport Layer Protocol : Routing

    FidoNet does not necessarily send a message directly to
    its
    destination. To reduce the number of network connections, mail
    to a
    subset of the nodelist may be routed to one node for further
    distribution within that subset. In addition, custom
    routing is
    possible. Routing of a message is determined in one of three
    ways.

    o If there are files attached, then a message must be sent
    directly to
    its destination.

    Ahhh... Didn't know this. That's why you're the guru... my apologies for even asking.. :/

    The main
    system sends the CUT and the attached file just fine. The HUB receives both in the secure inbound folder where sbbsecho tosses it but it seems to ahve a problem there. This is the message I get

    ERROR line 470, attachment file not found: c:\sbbs\data\file/0001.out/test.txt

    As you can see, sbbsecho is looking for the attached test file in ../sbbs/data/file and not finding it because it's still in the ../sbbs/sportnet/secure inbound folder.

    Issue??

    I just commited a change to update the file path in the netmail subject for file attaches when exporting netmail from packets to .msg files.
    This should fix at least that error, but I'm not sure if you're
    actually going to be able to "route attachments" as you're attempting. Give it a try.

    I'll give it a try.... let you know tomorrow and thank you..


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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to mark lewis on Sat Mar 25 17:09:00 2017
    Hiya mark...

    mark lewis wrote to Digital Man on 03-25-17 13:47 <=-

    On 2017 Mar 21 18:35:22, you wrote to Bill McGarrity:

    but I'm not sure if you're actually going to be able to "route attachments" as you're attempting. Give it a try.

    FWIW: frontdoor has been able to route attached files for decades...
    i'm pretty sure that binkleyterm can as well... when FTS-0001 was
    written, sure, routing of files was not to be done but the key wording
    is "without the permission of all systems along the path" which i
    believe comes from policy and not from the technical standards... FTS-0001, in particular, is a sticky case when it comes to updating/changing it... copyright and all that rot being in the way ;)

    Rob actually did what I asked him to do. sbbsecho now has the ability to route file attached netmail without issue. It was one small minor change from what he explained and it does work as advertised.

    This also goes back to the days when we were in discussion dealing with routed echomail in which you and I said it could be done and everyone else said it couldn't. My request to Rob for this option actually had, in hindsight, nothing to do with that at all. Because I use the Pi as a hub and netmail from my system gets routed through that hub (using the Route 24:all on the HUB), there was a node who needed some files. I normally like to use FM so I can attach more than one file if needed. All I know is Rob did a great job in issuing this re-write to do as I asked and am sure there were others out there that love this change as well.


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