Hello Oli!
14 Jan 20, Oli wrote to Kai Richter:
KR>> if you use JAM or squish. Anyway your mail is stored in squish on
KR>> my system. That's why i can't see a reason to drop a bug report.
O> As far as I understand it from the documentation hpt always does
O> import/export in one pass, is that correct?
I don't know. There is control for import by "hpt toss" and control for export
via "hpt scan". But for routing i don't know if it's possible to import pkt to
local msgbase without exporting the mail to all linked systems. That option
doesn't make sense to me. If the user deletes mails before they are forwarded
to the linked systems that would be censorship and against the "no modification
of in transit mail" of the policy.
But i found another function that reveals that the date field is common for
modification:
***
@item Syntax:
@code{processPkt <string>}
@item Example:
@code{processPkt pktdate}
Space char and name of the current file "*.pkt" will be append into end of
<string> and <string> willl be executed before tossing each pkt file. You
are able to fix your pkts using pktdate or any other tool before tossing
them. Note that pkt file may be renamed depending of @code{tossingExt}
token value.
***
In the past when i used OS/2 there was a tool called pktsort that could be hook
at the same place to sort the mails by date. That fixed the situation that the
answer was visible before the question in the msgbase.
For hpt scan there is an option to bypass netmail:
'When PackNetMailOnScan is "on" (default) hpt packs netmail when doing
"hpt scan" and netmail area is found in EchoTossLog file. When it is
"off" hpt leaves netmail area(s) in EchoTossLog file until "hpt pack" is
invoked.'
O> But What about echoareas that get rescanned? Around 50% of the mails
O> (or a little bit less) will have a modified timestamp (DOS time format
O> with 2 second granularity).
That "adjusted" timestamp is common to me since i use fidonet. I don't know the
decision for that, maybe it's due to 8-bit limitation of the date format on
early fidonet computers back in the 80's?
Regards
Kai
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