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 Message 334 
 Rob Swindell to Marc Lewis 
 Re: No compression to one node 
 31 Oct 18 04:33:17 
 
  Re: Re: No compression to one node
  By: Marc Lewis to Torsten Bamberg on Tue Oct 30 2018 07:08 pm

 >  TB> If you want to sent netmail without compression, do a 'squish out'
 >  TB> without 'squash'.
 >
 > Yes, and the same is true for an EchoMail outbound scan, but the outbound
 > directory would become a nightmare. It's a Binkley style outbound and
 > Binkley  doesn't recognise uncompressed packets IIRC;

BSO recognizes/supports uncompressed packets (e.g. outbound/*.out) just fine.

 > MarK Lewis pointed out that now-a-days it hardly makes sense to waste
 > compute  cycles to archive outbound packets due to the connectivity via the
 > internet now
 > commonly utilised; but still, there are traditional Binkley based mailers
 > that  require compressed mail bundles with their attendant .?LO files.

That would weird considering the original Binkley mailer (BinkleyTerm) did not
(require compressed mail bundles).

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