Subj : Re: Trialing FMail/lnx status check-in
To   : Wilfred Van Velzen
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sat Sep 09 2017 21:49:00

Hi! Wilfred,

On Sat, 09 Sep 17, you wrote to me:


 PQ>> I will fix this schamozzle tomorrow and give fmail 
 PQ>> scan a proper workout, along with some other evil 
 PQ>> plans I have for FMail.
 WvV> Ok, keep us informed!

Well, I had this itch to fix it...

 PQ>> If I wasn't up to my armpits in EwwToob (YT), I'd do
 PQ>> it now. Priorities...
 WvV> If you mean YouTube, yes I know, it's addictive! ;)

Yes.  Then there are times I end up in a sort of Twilight Zone for hours if my 
attention wanders from YT to Vimeo and LiveLeak.  Anyway, I have a tall tale to 
tell...

This morning I modified GoldEd's config over to reading the FMail config rather 
than an Areas.Bbs file exported from it, after I found & re-enabled the GoldEd 
config switch to convert DOS paths to a Linux one in tosser area config files.  
(It took a little fine-tuning but in the end it worked.)  So, after doing the 
right thing with the scan always FMail switch, I went through the motions of 
another post test.  GoldEd created the echomail.jam file like this...

--- 8< ---
C:\opt\ftn\fido\msgbase\fmail_help 867
--- 8< ---

Which is fine since the FMail envar translation will convert it back to a Linux path.  (I say back because FMail initially sucked in the Areas.Bbs file from CM II, _with_ Linux paths.  And they stuck!  FMail's area manager has Linux paths!)  So, running the sendmail.sh produced...

--- 8< ---
> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  FMail-lnx32-2.1.0.18-Beta20170905 - Scan
> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Echomail message, area FMAIL_HELP
> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Update /opt/ftn/fido/outbound/02800180.hlo
> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Mail bundle already going from 3:640/1384 to 3:640/384
> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Netmail: 0,  Personal: 0,  Hudson: 0,  JAMbase: 1
> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Msgbase net: 0, echo: 1, dup: 0, bad: 0
> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Scan Active: 0.162 sec.
--- 8< ---

Neat, huh?  I shall admonish myself tomorrow for not saying "no" enough times.  :)  Thank you for your kind assistance.

Cheers,
Paul.

--- Paul's Win98

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