Hello everybody!

Just wanted to know how you all handle this. I went into "Miscellaneous - Message Base" and assigned them like this:
***
Bad message board 1
Dupl. message board 2
Recovery board 3
***
I also put the path to a new, previously empty directory into "Personal mail - Pers. mail path" to get copies of (echo area) mails sent to me.

From what I could see, there's no way that GoldEd would pick those up automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in golded.cfg:
***
AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS f:\fido\netmail
AREADEF Personal "PERSONAL" A Net OPUS f:\fido\persmail
AREADEF Badmail "BADMAIL" A Local Hudson 1
AREADEF Dupes "DUPES" A Local Hudson 2
AREADEF Recovery "RECOVERY" A Local Hudson 3
***
(HUDSONPATH and JAMPATH are also configured; AutoExport generates areas.gld in the golded directory)

Am I overlooking something obvious, or is this the way to go? Because from what I understood, the "BBS area file path" found in the AutoExport settings is for, well, BBS configs, right?

Regards
Fermin


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Hi Fermin,

On 2021-05-15 17:03:07, you wrote to All:

Hello everybody!

Just wanted to know how you all handle this. I went into "Miscellaneous - Message Base" and assigned them like this:
***
Bad message board 1
Dupl. message board 2
Recovery board 3
***
I also put the path to a new, previously empty directory into "Personal mail - Pers. mail path" to get copies of (echo area) mails sent to me.

From what I could see, there's no way that GoldEd would pick those up automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in golded.cfg:
***
AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS f:\fido\netmail
AREADEF Personal "PERSONAL" A Net OPUS f:\fido\persmail
AREADEF Badmail "BADMAIL" A Local Hudson 1
AREADEF Dupes "DUPES" A Local Hudson 2
AREADEF Recovery "RECOVERY" A Local Hudson 3
***
(HUDSONPATH and JAMPATH are also configured; AutoExport generates areas.gld
in the golded directory)

Am I overlooking something obvious, or is this the way to go? Because
from what I understood, the "BBS area file path" found in the
AutoExport settings is for, well, BBS configs, right?

I'm not sure I did something specific for this (it was a long time ago).
But my areas.gld (generated by FMail) contains all my areas FMail knows about, including the netmail and hudson areas:

AREADEF NETMAIL "Netmail area" 0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\ . (Loc)
AREADEF SENT_RCVD "Sent/Received netmail" 0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\save\ . (R/O Loc)
AREADEF DUP_MSGS "Duplicate messages" 0 Local Hudson 199 . (R/O Loc)
AREADEF BAD_MSGS "Bad messages" 0 Local Hudson 200 . (R/O Loc)
AREADEF ADSL "ADSL" F Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\adsl 2:280/464.0 (Loc)
AREADEF ALASKA_CHAT "ALASKA_CHAT" F Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\alaska_chat 2:280/464.0 (Loc)
[...]

I haven't configured a "BBS area file path"...


Bye, Wilfred.

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15 May 2021 17:03, you wrote to All:

From what I could see, there's no way that GoldEd would pick those up automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in golded.cfg:

[...]

I have this in my golded.cfg:

AREAFILE FMail c:\fido\fmail

and those 3 special areas are automatically included.

Carlos
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Hello Carlos!

15 May 21 18:15, you wrote to me:

From what I could see, there's no way that GoldEd would pick
those up automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in
golded.cfg:

[...]
I have this in my golded.cfg:
AREAFILE FMail c:\fido\fmail
and those 3 special areas are automatically included.

They are, indeed! I just tried commenting out my "AREADEF" lines in golded.cfg and the areas are (still) there. Thanks!

Regards
Fermin


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Hello Wilfred!

15 May 21 17:34, you wrote to me:

those up automatically (or is there?), so I had to put this in
golded.cfg:
***
AREADEF Netmail "NETMAIL" 0 Net OPUS f:\fido\netmail
AREADEF Personal "PERSONAL" A Net OPUS f:\fido\persmail
AREADEF Badmail "BADMAIL" A Local Hudson 1
AREADEF Dupes "DUPES" A Local Hudson 2
AREADEF Recovery "RECOVERY" A Local Hudson 3
***
(HUDSONPATH and JAMPATH are also configured; AutoExport generates
areas.gld in the golded directory)

Am I overlooking something obvious, or is this the way to go?
Because from what I understood, the "BBS area file path" found in
the AutoExport settings is for, well, BBS configs, right?

I'm not sure I did something specific for this (it was a long time
ago). But my areas.gld (generated by FMail) contains all my areas
FMail knows about, including the netmail and hudson areas:

So I should not even have to define the "Netmail" area? I'll give that a try, as well. The easier/simpler my config, the better.

AREADEF NETMAIL "Netmail area" 0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\ . (Loc) AREADEF SENT_RCVD "Sent/Received netmail" 0 Net FIDO n:\netmail\save\ . (R/O Loc) AREADEF DUP_MSGS "Duplicate messages" 0 Local Hudson 199 . (R/O Loc) AREADEF
BAD_MSGS "Bad messages" 0 Local Hudson 200 . (R/O Loc) AREADEF ADSL "ADSL"
F Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\adsl 2:280/464.0 (Loc) AREADEF ALASKA_CHAT "ALASKA_CHAT" F Echo JAM n:\jam\fido\alaska_chat 2:280/464.0 (Loc) [...]

I haven't configured a "BBS area file path"...

Then I shall get rid of mine, as well and see what happens... :-)

Regards
Fermin


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16 May 2021 00:27, you wrote to me:

I have this in my golded.cfg:
AREAFILE FMail c:\fido\fmail
and those 3 special areas are automatically included.

They are, indeed! I just tried commenting out my "AREADEF" lines in golded.cfg and the areas are (still) there. Thanks!

You're welcome.

Besides that AREAFILE line, I only have this:

AREADEF NETMAIL "Netmails" 0 Net Opus c:\fido\NETMAIL\ . (Loc Pvt)

I added this because my netmails didn't have the Pvt attribute by default.

Carlos
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Hello Carlos!

16 May 21 08:21, you wrote to me:

I have this in my golded.cfg:
AREAFILE FMail c:\fido\fmail
and those 3 special areas are automatically included.

They are, indeed! I just tried commenting out my "AREADEF" lines
in golded.cfg and the areas are (still) there. Thanks!

You're welcome.

Gracias :-)

Besides that AREAFILE line, I only have this:
AREADEF NETMAIL "Netmails" 0 Net Opus c:\fido\NETMAIL\ . (Loc
Pvt)

I added this because my netmails didn't have the Pvt attribute by
default.

I see. Currently I don't even have an AREADEF for Netmail any more. But adding attributes would be a good reason. I'll look into that, maybe also the "AREADESC" keyword.

Regards
Fermin


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