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Hello August!

*** Tuesday 16.03.21 at 09:21, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>> The way it works is, that instead of polling the BossNode
 MF>> for mail, OpenXP creates a mail packet/bundle in whatever
 MF>> directory has been assigned as the "outbound". It's then up
 MF>> to the Node to transfer the mail packet/ bundle to their
 MF>> secure inbound in their mailer setup and then run their
 MF>> tosser to pack mail for uplinks/downlinks.

 AA> I suppose that might have been practical when binkd wasn't a
 AA> built-in feature of the program?

Not really because the whole idea of SysOp Mode is to allow a Node to use  
OpenXP as a message reader/editor AND to use their Node address instead of  
the more usual Point address.

Regards,
Martin

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