Subj : generate dupe file?
To   : Tom De Puysseleyr
From : Kai Richter
Date : Tue May 23 2023 01:54 am

Hello Tom!

22 May 23, Tom De Puysseleyr wrote to Niels Joncheere:

 NJ>> Yes: the -tooOld option for a message area definition!
 TP> Thanks for the hint! What value would you recommend? I think a few
 TP> days should be enough?

It blocks incoming mails if they are tooOld. A few days may result in droping mails from slow points or holiday afks that didn't sent all mail before or those node systems went into lock condition shortly after departure.

For todays low traffic condition in fidonet no mail should be dropped because of age. Fidonet is a _store_ and forward network. The tooOld switch was built to protect against amok running systems where the usual dupe detection fails (eg. msgid modification).

Regards

Kai

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