Subj : Re: Squish on Linux (compile errors)
To : Oliver Thuns
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Nov 22 2019 12:06 pm
Hi Oliver,
On 2019-11-21 20:56:36, you wrote to me:
WV>> There's also the problem that the squish message base stores
WV>> date/time stamps with a resolution of 2 seconds. That has been
WV>> causing problems in the past where a squish system forwarded messages
WV>> to its other links with the date/times changed from the original, and
WV>> so causing undetected dupes on some systems.
OT> This might be a problem with some tossers, but it's not a problem with the
OT> Squish specification itself. It would surprise me, if Squish didn't use
the
OT> original date for rescanned messages.
OT> Quote from the Squish Developers Kit Version 2.00:
OT> __ftsc_date char[20] 218 FTS-0001 compatible date. Squish
OT> applications should not access this
OT> field directly. This field is used
OT> exclusively by tossers and scanners
OT> for preserving the original ASCII
OT> message date. Squish applications
OT> should use the binary dates in
OT> date_written and date_arrived to
OT> retrieve the message date.
Looks good (if it's used when forwarding mail).
OT> I suspect hpt from the husky project. In scanarea.c, function makeMsg:
I don't remember what tosser the guilty system used, when we found out...
WV>> This is of course only a problem if you have more than 1 link to an
WV>> echomail area. Which is never (or shouldn't) be the case for a point
WV>> system. ;)
OT> I'm a node in the othernet ;)
Are you a "leaf" node, or do you have multiple links?
Bye, Wilfred.
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