Subj : Re: Executing mail upon arrival
To   : mark lewis
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Thu Nov 03 2016 01:46 pm

-=> mark lewis wrote to Allen Prunty <=-

 ml> 01 Nov 16 21:04, you wrote to Mike Miller:


 MM>> Mine is set up like this for Linux:

 MM>> exec "/sbbs/exec/sbbsecho /sbbs/ctrl/sbbsecho.ini" *.su? *.mo? *.tu?
 MM>> *.we? *.th? *.fr? *.sa? *.pkt *.PKT exec "/sbbs/exec/ticin.sh" *.tic
 MM>> *.TIC

 MM>> I don't think you need the full path/filename with complicated regex
 MM>> unless you're expecting other files to get dumped in there.  Also, I
 MM>> don't think you need "!@"

 AP> Windows has a few more requirements

 ml> no it doesn't... i run binkd the exact same way on my OS/2, linux and
 ml> winwhatever boxen...

 AP> from what I am reading th !@ tells it to ! Execute immediately and @
 AP> open a window and hide it to do it.

 ml> you don't need to execute your toss script immediately after each file
 ml> is received... think about this for a second... if you receive four
 ml> PKTs, and you use the ! you're telling binkd to fire your toss script
 ml> four times... why? you really don't need to do that... just have binkd
 ml> fire the toss once after that one mail session is complete and let it
 ml> toss all four PKTs at once... the thing about @ is personal preference
 ml> but i've never used it... i want to see the evidence of the tossing
 ml> being done... that's how i know that things are still working
 ml> properly...

Easy solution... just create a semaphore.... poof!


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Bill

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