Subj : Outbound Report
To   : Michael Dukelsky
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Jun 16 2020 10:06:33

  Re: Outbound Report
  By: Michael Dukelsky to mark lewis on Tue Jun 16 2020 13:31:42


 MD> Here we see that the opinion of the two programs on the age of the
 MD> problem is quite different. For showold.pl it is 3 days and for
 MD> waitingoutmail it is 5051 days. The reason of the difference is
 MD> simple: waitingoutmail considers filetime of all files and showold.pl
 MD> considers filetime of .TICs but does not take into account filetime
 MD> of the files the .TICs refer to.

yes, this is true... waitingoutmail simply looks at all the files listed in the ?lo file(s) and finds the oldest one... this is done in lines 320 - 323... i guess we need to qualify $name in there and restrict it to certain
extensions used for FTN mail...

please feel free to post issues on the github and even pull requests with fixes ;)

FWIW: waitingoutmail is something i whipped up in a few days... i'm sure there are bugs/defects/anomolies in it... i can also see that we might want to display some file sizes, too, so we know how much data needs to be
transmitted in addition to how many files...

i should note that the github is slightly behind my local living copy... i know that one thing i changed here you mentioned already... that being the log file... some weeks back, i moved a lot of my scripts to ~/bin and yeah,
having log files written in there was a bit of ugh so i made ~/logs and modded the scripts to write their logs to ~/logs/$0.log ;)

there may be other things a little out of date... i have to look and see but for now, it works! that makes me happy :)


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