Subj : RE: FWD: RE: Send me a test NetMail
To   : Marc Lewis
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Dec 08 2020 12:44 pm

  Re: RE: FWD: RE: Send me a test NetMail
  By: Marc Lewis to Digital Man on Tue Dec 08 2020 02:12 pm

 >  DM> Are you sure it wasn't NetMgr that has the issue (and not Squish)?
 >
 > NetMgr seems to be working just fine with the change-over to a Squish
 > NetMail area.  All I needed to do with it is put a $ in front of
 > c:\netmail\netmail. Scans and acts on the required messages w/o issue thus
 > far.

Okay, so it still could just be NetMgr's fault then (?).

From the examples provided to me by Fred Riccio, it appears Squish doesn't really support exporting netmail to "stored message" (.msg) format very well - none of his Squish-exported netmail messages contain proper zones or points in the message fixed-headers, regardless of the MSGID kludge existence/absence or format. The messages do appear to have the Via kludge lines however, so the information is there if a program really looks for it. I'm not sure if there's a configuration or perhaps a later bug-fix that's missing, but the Squish-exported .msg files that I've seen so far definitely don't look right.

 > It's still regrettable that FTSC was not more specific in its specification
 > for the format of the @MSGID line.  At best, what's written is debatable.

I would argue the FTSC specification was overly-specific: the 32-bit "serialno" is insufficient for its aims. The "prior art" was the RFC-822 Message-ID defined 10 years earlier with much *less* specificity than the FTSC spec and it's worked well for almost 40 years now. And nobody tries to "parse" an RFC-822 Message-ID and discover surprising failures years later as a result.
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