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PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/88b423313 Sep 29 2025 GCC 12.2.0
TID: SBBSecho 3.30-Linux master/86829317e Oct 26 2025 GCC 12.2.0
BBSID: VERT
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1001#note_7821

So reading the echocfg help page for robot configuration, it says:
> If the NetMail message has the In-Transit attribute flag set, it      
will not be exported by SBBSecho back into a stored message (*.msg)   
file. Therefore, it is recommended to include the In-Transit attribute
flag (0x20) in the Robot's Attributes value if the Robot (e.g. script)
is going to expect the message to be in the mail base.                

This implies that so long as the in-transit flag is *not* set in the Robot's
Attributes value (the default is 0, so not set is the default), the message
should be exported back from the mail base to .msg format when the
export_netmail() function is executed. Is that not occurring for you?
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