[drats_users] Outgoing Email question

[Dan Smith]

> When the email showed up in the other account, it had an attachment
> called "do_not_open_me".  Naturally, I opened it (safely).

When you send an 'email' type form to an internet recipient, D-RATS
assumes that the person on the other end is running a normal client, so
it formats the email so they can read it.  However, if the other end is
another D-RATS system, the attachment contains the original form source
(with more information than a plain email) and D-RATS can extract it.
This doesn't make much sense when using an 'email' form, of course.
However, if you send something rich like an ICS-213, then the receiving
D-RATS on the other end will get the whole form out of the attachment.

So, imagine you have two groups of people in the field.  The groups can
talk within themselves, but not between groups.  If you have one station
in each group with an internet connection, then you can bridge the two
RF groups with email accounts, letting messages flow between them.  Does
that make sense?

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Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
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