On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Kurt Weiske wrote to mark lewis:

 ML>> allfix announce

 KW> Mark, thanks again for the pointer.

you are welcome... it is exactly what is used to announce new files that have
been processed...

 KW> I have another question I was hoping you or someone else could 
 KW> answer, as I've been playing around with ALLFIX to no avail. 

 KW> I'm running Synchronet. With regards to report format, you can
 KW> select Hudson. PKT, *.MSG, Ezycom, Jam, Squish, and others. I've
 KW> played with PKT and *.MSG to get a packet that SBBSecho will import
 KW> into one of my file echoes, but to no avail.

you should be able to use PKT and simply have your sbbsecho toss them... most
traditional FTN systems have several directories related to mail tossing...
one of them is known as the "secure" area where only truly known secure pkts
are placed for tossing... this is NOT the same directory as the secure inbound
from the mailer... this particular secure or trusted directory holds PKTs that
you absolutely know where they were created... PKTs like those created by your
allfix announce... you would tell allfix to put the PKTs in that secure
directory and then the tosser will toss them...

perhaps sbbsecho has some method to import/toss posts in PKTs that are from 
one of its addresses?? or possibly you can set allfix up with a point address 
which sbbsecho will then import the reports from the PKTs??

 KW> I use SMBUTIL to import other log files in text format into
 KW> Synchronet's message bases, and it works well. Is there any way to
 KW> get ALLFIX to output a report in text format only? Or a way to get
 KW> its' reports into a Synchronet message base that I've missed?

one other possibility, which is quite twisted, would be to have allfix write
to some other message base and then you would use a tool to extract those
messages to a text file which you might then have smbutil import... what OS
are you running this on? as said, this is very twisted and extreme contortions
like this should not be necessary...

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