Subj : Re: Squish Archiving
To   : Marty Blankenship
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Thu Jan 12 2006 11:42 pm

Hi Marty,

 MB> Ok let me explain it this way.

 MB> all the *.pkt files inside the mail bundle has all the 
 MB> correct addressing. The
 MB> mail bundle itself (*.su0 *.mo0 etc.) is useing my 
 MB> fidonet address instead of
 MB> the aka's that are on the *.pkt files. I hope that explains it a little 
 MB> better.

Well it sort of does, but it doesn't help.......;-) A Mail bundle is just a ZIP 
file with a name specific to the NEXT HOP node as far as Routing is concerned, 
but even then it can be kludged depending on the relationship of YOUR node to 
the target Node. 

One thing I can think of causing this is where you are packing Mail for an 
other net address, but your system does not have an address within that 
Othernet for YOUR system. In this case you need to ensure SQUISH.CFG contains 
and address for YOUR node within that other net, and that then matches up with 
the NETWORK addressing of a target node.

Are you able to provide some actual examples of file names used for these 
othernet addresses? 


 MB> The right address being used are on the *.pkt files, 
 MB> the wrong address being 
 MB> used are on the *.su0 *.mo0 etc. files.

So what happens to the created Mail bundles, where do they actually end up and 
how (IE via what routing) do they get there?


 MB> Mail packets are zipped if you have zip as your default packer in your 
 MB> compress.cfg that squish uses to archive mail bundles.

I note that your ROUTE.CFG had NOCOMP for several othernet addresses, what 
happens to the mail for those addresses, as they should not be compressed...

I have never used an AMA Mailer in my 15+ years of Fidonet, so I have never had 
to think about what should be happening in these situations........;-)

Cheers............pk.


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