Subj : Re: MIS POLL
To   : paulie420
From : Warpslide
Date : Thu Nov 12 2020 11:13:13

On 11 Nov 2020, paulie420 said the following...
 
 pa> Jeez - people are posting such good information over the past day. Can I
 pa> ask you, what are the 'semaphore' and 'kill after' lines? Mine are null,
 pa> and ... while my setup works, I'd like to understand exactly whats going
 pa> on or whats possible... 

A semaphore is a file created in the mystic/semaphore directory.  When echomail is received by the bink server Mystic will create an echomail.in file in the semaphore directory.  Likewise when you post a message in a message base Mystic will create an echomail.out file.

If you have an event monitor for these semaphores (I believe Mystic checks the directory once a minute) then you can have things run more often, almost in real time.

e.g.

You post a message here in this message base.  Mystic creates mystic/semaphore/echomail.out

You have an event looking for echomail.out which runs:
mutil mailout.ini|mis poll send

The kill after line deletes that semaphore so the event won't run continuously.

So the way I have Mystic setup, each time I post a message it's sent out usually within a minute, rather than waiting for an event to run every so often to collect mail and send it out.

Jay

.... There was a kidnapping at school yesterday. Don't worry though, he woke up

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