Subj : Messages attributes in FTSC docs
To : Paul Quinn
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Sun Mar 22 2020 05:21 pm
Hello Paul,
Sunday March 22 2020, Paul Quinn wrote to Fabio Bizzi:
FB>> But I still don't understand what a mail processor or tosser has
FB>> to do when a message has the MSGLOCAL attribute set. :)
PQ> From experience I have found that _a_ tosser would -not- export a
PQ> message without the LOC attribute being set. I now recall that I was
PQ> experimenting with the MPost utility... many moons ago.
PQ> In short: the LOC attribute must be _set_ in order to send the subject
PQ> message.
It is rather strange. The Loc attribute is set on a locally created message to
differentiate it from a message received from another system. So what is the
point of sending a message with the Loc attrubute set? The system receiving the
message will consider the message is created locally.