Someone can correct me if I'm wrong here, but after checking HPT's docs and sample config files:
The difference here is that you use Crashmail, where I believe you can specify a separate outbound directory for each network. I'm not sure you can do that with HPT. HPT uses hex extensions to the original outbound directory for different zone numbers from your "default zone". So, for example, in HPT sample config:
outbound /home/username/fido/outbound
Sets only one outbound directory. However, when you setup other zones/networks, if your default zone is "2" it will automatically create outbound.001 (for zone 1) outbound.015 (zone 21), outbound.02e (zone 46), etc.
If there is another way to do this, maybe with the "GROUPS" keyword, I never bothered to look into it, since it works fine this way.
Binkd understands both of these methods, but the configuration for binkd to find those directories in use is a bit different.
... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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