Subj : Readdressing packed mail
To   : Richard Webb
From : Minh Van Le
Date : Thu Feb 14 2008 09:26 am

Hello Richard !

On 12-Feb'08 18:18, Richard Webb wrote to Minh Van Le:

 RW> Minh Van Le wrote in a message to Jerry Schwartz:

 MVL> Ok. How do I reroute netmail after it has been packed and 
 MVL> compressed ? can Squish do it ? or do I have to start using 
 MVL> shell scripts. 

 JS> Squish can't do it. I have done it by hand, in the past. 
 JS> You have to uncompress the archive into a .PKT file, then 
 JS> recompress it into the properly named archive and file 
 JS> attach it to the intended node.

 MVL> Is there a tool to perform these actions non interactively 
 MVL> ? 

 RW> SOunds to me like you need to do some careful reworking of 
 RW> your route.cfg, which should be in the same directory as 
 RW> the squish executable and config file.

Yeah but I wanna readdress mail -after- it has been placed in outbound, because 
I want to view a summary of all interzone netmail before they're sent eg. in 
the nifty BinklyTerm outbound zoom window.

The problem is those interzone netmails can be addressed to any random address 
eg. 5:111/123, 6:222/456, 7:444/789. Usually this isn't a problem because they 
would be routed through a single uplink which is performed by Squish at SQUASH 
time. However for my purposes, I don't want the PKTs bundled into 1 uplink 
address -until- ZMH so that I can inspect my outbound directory during daytime. 
eg, 

  Ú Pending Outbound Mail ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
  ³ Node       Files Size  Status ³
  ³ 3:712/0        1 325b     H ! ³
  ³ 5:111/123      1 315b     H   ³
  ³ 6:222/456      1 167b     H   ³
  ³ 7:444/789      1 230b     H   ³
  ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ

This way I can see what interzone mail I got pending.

In other words I don't want to group all netmail straightaway for my uplink 
(3:712/0). If I did, all I would see in my outbound would be a big bundle for 
3:712/0. 

 Node: 3:712/104@fidonet.org                               ypan.dyndns.org
Ú Zoomed Pending Outbound Mail ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Ä
³ Node                            Files     Bytes Age Calls   Bad   Status
³ 3:111/222@fidonet.org               1       325  1     0     0      H
³ 5:111/123@fidonet.org               1       315  1     0     0      H
³ 6:222/456@fidonet.org               1       167  1     0     0      H
  7:444/789@fidonet.org               1       230  1     0     0      H ³
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³A           Readdress mail           [Alt/] G    Get (request) File(s)
³C/D/H/N     Crash/Direct/Hold/Normal [Alt/] S    Send File(s)
³I           Reset Dial Tries         [Alt/] P    Poll a node
³R           Kill requests            T           Stop mail
³K           Kill all mail to node
³Page UP/DN  Scroll Up/Down 1 Page    UP/DN Arrow Move Up/Down 1 Line
³HOME        Move to top of list      END         Move to end of list
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 BinkleyTerm Version 2.60-uSoft8.0(Unregistered)    Press Alt-F10 For Help

Even if I used HostRoute or arranged an uplink in each zone (which is one 
stupid way to do it ...), I still can't achieve what I want because Squish can 
only perform addressing and/or bundling actions once. 

Once the .flo's are created, you can't change or readdress anything with 
Squish. To my current knowledge you have to do it manually in BinkleyTerm or 
other mailer.

I was hoping for a clean way to readdress bundled mail using Squish. 

But it sounds like I have to use shell scripts / batch files.

For example to reroute interzone (netmail) mail to 3:712/0:

merge.bat:
================================================
:: combine everything into 02c80000.hlo (3:712/0)
copy ftn\02c80000.hlo 
  ftn.1\*.hlo ftn.2\*.hlo ftn.4\*.hlo 
  ftn.5\*.hlo ftn.6\*.hlo ftn.7\*.hlo 
  ftn\02c80000.tmp

:: overwrite the old .hlo file
copy ftn\02c80000.tmp ftn\02c80000.hlo

del ftn.?\*.hlo
;
; poll NC here
;
================================================

or something crap like that.

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