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 Message 246 
 Joe Bruchis to Tommi Koivula 
 Netmail in FE2 
 16 Oct 17 07:16:14 
 
Tommi Koivula wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:


 TK> Hello Joe!

 TK> 15 Oct 17 15:14, you wrote to me:

 TK>>> Did you run "fastech2.exe pack" also?

 JB>> Yes. But I really wouldn't want to pack the thousands of
 JB>> non-existent netmails that scrolled on the screen when I executed
 JB>> the scan.

 TK>> How could you pack something non-existent? :D

 JB> No idea. Not sure why they are there.

 TK>> "fastech2.exe scan" is not packing/routing netmail. It just
 TK>> exports netmails from the msgbase to the main netmail area.

 JB> I see.

 TK> And if you have netmails TO YOUR system in your .msg area, you
 TK> should import them into the secondary netmail base(s). "feutil2.exe
 TK> import". 

 TK> The ideal situation is that there are no netmails in your .msg area
 TK> at all. :) 

Tomi, I found the problem. I assumed the command "fastech2 pack" packed the
netmail. When I queried the command switches with "fastech2 pack ?" I found I
needed to add "-P" to pack netmail or "fastech2 pack -P". It works now.

Thanks for taking the time to try to help. (-:


Regards,

 Joe 
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