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    From Fermin Sanchez@2:301/123 to All on Sat May 15 17:03:07 2021

    Hello everybody!

    Just wanted to know how you all handle this. I went into "Miscellaneous - Message Base" and assigned them like this:
    ***
    Bad message board 1
    Dupl. message board 2
    Recovery board 3
    ***
    I also put the path to a new, previously empty directory into "Personal mail - Pers. mail path" to get copies of (echo area) mails sent to me.

    From what I could see, there's no way that GoldEd would pick those up automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in golded.cfg:
    ***
    AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS f:\fido\netmail
    AREADEF Personal "PERSONAL" A Net OPUS f:\fido\persmail
    AREADEF Badmail "BADMAIL" A Local Hudson 1
    AREADEF Dupes "DUPES" A Local Hudson 2
    AREADEF Recovery "RECOVERY" A Local Hudson 3
    ***
    (HUDSONPATH and JAMPATH are also configured; AutoExport generates areas.gld in the golded directory)

    Am I overlooking something obvious, or is this the way to go? Because from what I understood, the "BBS area file path" found in the AutoExport settings is for, well, BBS configs, right?

    Regards
    Fermin


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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Fermin Sanchez on Sat May 15 17:34:02 2021
    Hi Fermin,

    On 2021-05-15 17:03:07, you wrote to All:

    Hello everybody!

    Just wanted to know how you all handle this. I went into "Miscellaneous - Message Base" and assigned them like this:
    ***
    Bad message board 1
    Dupl. message board 2
    Recovery board 3
    ***
    I also put the path to a new, previously empty directory into "Personal mail - Pers. mail path" to get copies of (echo area) mails sent to me.

    From what I could see, there's no way that GoldEd would pick those up automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in golded.cfg:
    ***
    AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS f:\fido\netmail
    AREADEF Personal "PERSONAL" A Net OPUS f:\fido\persmail
    AREADEF Badmail "BADMAIL" A Local Hudson 1
    AREADEF Dupes "DUPES" A Local Hudson 2
    AREADEF Recovery "RECOVERY" A Local Hudson 3
    ***
    (HUDSONPATH and JAMPATH are also configured; AutoExport generates areas.gld
    in the golded directory)

    Am I overlooking something obvious, or is this the way to go? Because
    from what I understood, the "BBS area file path" found in the
    AutoExport settings is for, well, BBS configs, right?

    I'm not sure I did something specific for this (it was a long time ago).
    But my areas.gld (generated by FMail) contains all my areas FMail knows about, including the netmail and hudson areas:

    AREADEF NETMAIL "Netmail area" 0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\ . (Loc)
    AREADEF SENT_RCVD "Sent/Received netmail" 0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\save\ . (R/O Loc)
    AREADEF DUP_MSGS "Duplicate messages" 0 Local Hudson 199 . (R/O Loc)
    AREADEF BAD_MSGS "Bad messages" 0 Local Hudson 200 . (R/O Loc)
    AREADEF ADSL "ADSL" F Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\adsl 2:280/464.0 (Loc)
    AREADEF ALASKA_CHAT "ALASKA_CHAT" F Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\alaska_chat 2:280/464.0 (Loc)
    [...]

    I haven't configured a "BBS area file path"...


    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/66.3463 to Fermin Sanchez on Sat May 15 18:15:48 2021
    15 May 2021 17:03, you wrote to All:

    From what I could see, there's no way that GoldEd would pick those up automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in golded.cfg:
    [...]

    I have this in my golded.cfg:

    AREAFILE FMail c:\fido\fmail

    and those 3 special areas are automatically included.

    Carlos
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  • From Fermin Sanchez@2:301/123 to Carlos Navarro on Sun May 16 00:27:01 2021

    Hello Carlos!

    15 May 21 18:15, you wrote to me:

    From what I could see, there's no way that GoldEd would pick
    those up automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in
    golded.cfg:
    [...]
    I have this in my golded.cfg:
    AREAFILE FMail c:\fido\fmail
    and those 3 special areas are automatically included.

    They are, indeed! I just tried commenting out my "AREADEF" lines in golded.cfg and the areas are (still) there. Thanks!

    Regards
    Fermin


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  • From Fermin Sanchez@2:301/123 to Wilfred van Velzen on Sun May 16 00:28:08 2021

    Hello Wilfred!

    15 May 21 17:34, you wrote to me:

    those up automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in
    golded.cfg:
    ***
    AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS f:\fido\netmail
    AREADEF Personal "PERSONAL" A Net OPUS f:\fido\persmail
    AREADEF Badmail "BADMAIL" A Local Hudson 1
    AREADEF Dupes "DUPES" A Local Hudson 2
    AREADEF Recovery "RECOVERY" A Local Hudson 3
    ***
    (HUDSONPATH and JAMPATH are also configured; AutoExport generates
    areas.gld in the golded directory)

    Am I overlooking something obvious, or is this the way to go?
    Because from what I understood, the "BBS area file path" found in
    the AutoExport settings is for, well, BBS configs, right?

    I'm not sure I did something specific for this (it was a long time
    ago). But my areas.gld (generated by FMail) contains all my areas
    FMail knows about, including the netmail and hudson areas:

    So I should not even have to define the "Netmail" area? I'll give that a try, as well. The easier/simpler my config, the better.

    AREADEF NETMAIL "Netmail area" 0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\ . (Loc) AREADEF SENT_RCVD "Sent/Received netmail" 0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\save\ . (R/O Loc) AREADEF DUP_MSGS "Duplicate messages" 0 Local Hudson 199 . (R/O Loc) AREADEF
    BAD_MSGS "Bad messages" 0 Local Hudson 200 . (R/O Loc) AREADEF ADSL "ADSL"
    F Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\adsl 2:280/464.0 (Loc) AREADEF ALASKA_CHAT "ALASKA_CHAT" F Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\alaska_chat 2:280/464.0 (Loc) [...]

    I haven't configured a "BBS area file path"...

    Then I shall get rid of mine, as well and see what happens... :-)

    Regards
    Fermin


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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/66.3463 to Fermin Sanchez on Sun May 16 08:21:41 2021
    16 May 2021 00:27, you wrote to me:

    I have this in my golded.cfg:
    AREAFILE FMail c:\fido\fmail
    and those 3 special areas are automatically included.

    They are, indeed! I just tried commenting out my "AREADEF" lines in golded.cfg and the areas are (still) there. Thanks!

    You're welcome.

    Besides that AREAFILE line, I only have this:

    AREADEF NETMAIL "Netmails" 0 Net Opus c:\fido\NETMAIL\ . (Loc Pvt)

    I added this because my netmails didn't have the Pvt attribute by default.

    Carlos
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  • From Fermin Sanchez@2:301/123 to Carlos Navarro on Sun May 16 09:34:25 2021

    Hello Carlos!

    16 May 21 08:21, you wrote to me:

    I have this in my golded.cfg:
    AREAFILE FMail c:\fido\fmail
    and those 3 special areas are automatically included.
    They are, indeed! I just tried commenting out my "AREADEF" lines
    in golded.cfg and the areas are (still) there. Thanks!
    You're welcome.

    Gracias :-)

    Besides that AREAFILE line, I only have this:
    AREADEF NETMAIL "Netmails" 0 Net Opus c:\fido\NETMAIL\ . (Loc
    Pvt)

    I added this because my netmails didn't have the Pvt attribute by
    default.

    I see. Currently I don't even have an AREADEF for Netmail any more. But adding attributes would be a good reason. I'll look into that, maybe also the "AREADESC" keyword.

    Regards
    Fermin


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