On 2019 Mar 21 13:33:48, you wrote to me:

 >> on my old FD/RA/FE setup, the netmail would be easily accessible and i
 >> could edit it with my normal sysop editor to change the destination
 >> address as well  as to possibly add a note at the top maybe explaining
 >> the delay...

 DM> I haven't written a FTN "stored message" (*.msg file) editor, but I'm
 DM> sure someone has. Have you looked through archives of fido utilities
 DM> online?

yes and no... i could maybe use TimEd or similar but i'm not sure how well the
*nix ports work... that might be the way to go, though... i just hadn't really
thought about it since i've been trying to stay with native sbbs tools...

 >> the only other choice is to bounce the message back to the sender with
 >> a note  that the destination user is not a user at the address it was
 >> sent to but  there's no easy way to do that, either...

 DM> Yup, don't have that either.

yeah, timed's partner, netmgr, would be handy like that... again, though, it
would be a port from DOS to *nix... i'm just a bit uncertain about them...
hummm...

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