Subj : Re: pack command...
To   : Martin Kazmaier
From : Nick Boel
Date : Fri Aug 22 2025 17:06:11

Hey Martin!

On Thu, Aug 21 2025 14:03:00 -0500, you wrote:

>> If you can't pack and scan for 30:30/99, then it probably
>> shouldn't even be in your tosser's configuration. Is this
>> something you're doing with IREX or some such?
 
> It needs to be scanned, not packed.

Ah, ok. 
>> I'm fairly sure you should pack your netmail before you try to
>> scan it out. Although, some tossers (like HPT for example), you
>> can enable a configuration option "PACKNETMAILONSCAN" so you don't
>> have to use both commands, but I don't know if FastEcho has that
>> option or not.
 
> Scan scans the message areas for outbound messages, including
> netmail.  Then pack sends the netmail.

"pack" only packs the netmail to be sent. Your mailer does the sending. Either way, I don't think it matters which order you run them, as long as you run them both before polling with your mailer. 
>> While it seems like you're ultimately confused as to how your
>> tosser works, at this point, you should probably start over with
>> Fidonet, and just have 1:229/426 as a link, and route 1:* 2:* 3:*
>> 4:* through it.
 
> I'm trying that, but only 1:* is routing, not 2:* or 4:*.

What about 3:* ?

Does FastEcho need separate entries for each route? Does it know what "1:* 2:* 3:* 4:*" means like most other tossers do? If it does understand this, I'm guessing you have something messed up somewhere else, or some other (stale or now unused) link that is interfering with what you're trying to do here. 
> To work around this, I've got fastecho scanning, then irex sending,
> then the process waiting to close (it gets put to the background, in
> which case pack runs immediately, so I run a tasklist | findstr
> rexw.exe and check the error level.), then packing all of the rest
> of the netmail. Seems to be working.
 Seems like you're doing entirely too much, but whatever works for you I suppose.

I would need screenshots of your link configurations and your routing table in order to pinpoint what the actual issue is. I don't think IREX is the issue in this case, and for once.

Regards,
Nick

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