Subj : Not launching the echomail script.
To   : mark lewis
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Sat Nov 25 2017 11:09 am

Hello mark,

On Fri Nov 24 2017 09:26:06, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

ml> binkd doesn't care about the files' extensions, really... if i send
ml> "my_land.map" to you, binkd will trigger a mail toss because the .map
ml> extension matches the allowed .ma? so what i'm saying is that you
ml> won't find my_land.map in your inbound because your tosser would have
ml> renamed it to my_land.bad... to further clarify, the long string
ml> regexes that some use are too relaxed... they need to be more
ml> strict...

Tell that to the maintainers that continue with the long string regex in the
default binkd.conf-dist.

ml> don't be so FTN centric when thinking about these things... i've had
ml> more than one set of files mangled in exactly this manner and that was
ml> long before binkd was even a gleam in its creator's eye... the
ml> mangling i experianced was due to some files being named the same
ml> except for the extension... when the tosser renamed the second one to
ml> .bad, it overwrote the first one... it took a week or two to figure
ml> out what was happening with that file set and why... t'was a little on
ml> the expensive side of the POTS bill, too...

I haven't used POTS in decades, and have automatic backups on a regular basis.
Not much worry and no cost to me. ;)

Regards,
Nick

... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."
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