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 Message 1529 
 Bill McGarrity to Digital Man 
 File attachments... 
 22 Mar 17 01:05:00 
 
-=> Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity on 03-21-17 18:35 <=-

 DM>   Re: File attachments...
 DM>   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.

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

 DM> 2. Transport Layer Protocol : Routing

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

 DM>       o If there are files attached, then a message must be sent
 DM> directly to
 DM>         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??

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

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


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