Subj : FastEcho not importing netmails
To   : mark lewis
From : Dan Egli
Date : Fri Apr 11 2003 06:32 pm

Hello mark.

09 Apr 03 21:08, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

>>> I'm trying to get FastEcho to import netmail messages into
>>> the message base. didn't realise till just today that it
>>> was not doing that. I do not understa why either. I have
>>> netmails that are addressed to me sitting in the fts1
>>> directory, waiting to be imported, but when I run feutil
>>> import or even feut import -force, nothing gets imported.
>>>
>>> Anyone ever see this before? Anyone got any tips?

AI>> Is your BBSs netmail base type supported? It would need to be
AI>> either a JAM or Squish type.

ml> that's not a restriction... HMB areas are supported, too...

AI>> If so do you have a netmail base setup in the
AI>> areas that FE can import the mail into?

ml> that may be part of the problem... or...

AI>> If you run FEUTIL IMPORT from the command line you may see a
AI>> clue on the screen as to why. If those netmail messages have
AI>> already been read they may not get imported too.

ml> he may have it set to not import netmail addressed to the sysop... my
ml> system is set this way... i have to read my netmail from frontdoor but
ml> my users all get theirs on the bbs... i'd kinda like to have mine
ml> available via either or but RA doesn't do MSG areas and i'm not going
ml> to copy them and have them in both...

I did have it set to import for the sysop (Exclusde sysop set to NO, use
users.bbs set to NO, etc...) it constantly refused to import netmail. I grabbed
the FMail I downloaded earlier and tried it, it imported the messages first
try. I don't know whats up.

Dan

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