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Hello Tim!

*** Tuesday 10.01.23 2:28:39, Tim Schattkowsky wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>> Pressed F12, clicked the "Uplinks" Tab, selected an uplink, clicked the
 MF>> "Properties" button and then clicked the "Inactive" radio button. Then
 MF>> clicked on the "Inactive" uplink in the "Poll" button pulldown and much
 MF>> to my surprise, WinPoint polled the "Inactive" uplink. Looking at the
 MF>> logfile for the session, I note that a "non-secure" session was
 MF>> established. Hmmmmm, I don't see the point in polling an "Inactive"
 MF>> uplink, perhaps I'm missing something?

 TS> Jup.

Yeah, thought so ;)

 TS> You poll a system, not an uplink. A system is just a BBS you can call.

OK, fair comment.

 TS> So when the uplink is disabled, no mail is exported for the uplink (among
 TS> other things) and when you poll the system respective AKA for that
 TS> particular uplink is not presented and no mail is sent.

Mail is not received either, which is pretty obvious, as the session password
is not presented.

 TS> That is the intended behaviour.

OK, fine.

 TS> So enssentially disabling an uplink is meant to stop WinPoint from
 TS> sending an mail using that network address.

Ah, Aha, NOW I understand and thanks for the explanation :)

Regards,
Martin

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