Subj : Re: Fmail (2018 Questions)
To   : Ozz Nixon
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Feb 14 2019 10:43 pm

Hi Ozz,

On 2019-02-14 10:09:08, you wrote to me:

 ON>>> * Only major wishlist I did not see (may be there) -- a drop file
 ON>>> from FMail to me ECHOLIST with new posts via TOSS.

 WV>> You mean something like what is in the toss log file but in a more
 WV>> machine readable form?

 ON> For example, d'Bridge tosser would let me know
 ON> FTSC_PUBLIC
 ON> FMAIL_HELP
 ON> FN_SYSOP

 ON> Which my BBS used to circumvent a full scan of 1000+ echos when someone
 ON> would log in, that was on before the most recent toss - I limited their
 ON> "NEW SCAN" to those 3 echos listed above. I have a small DB of 
userID,array
 ON> of areas - so it only searched the array of areas from JLR forward. *MUCH*
 ON> faster for a user on my systems... especially when I start pulling in
 ON> newsgroups and any other FTN(etwork) I can get coming in.

There's already this option in the config:

Tossed Areas List

          Writes a list of echomail areas in which mail has been
          tossed to the specified file.

I don't use it myself, but it seems just what you want.

 ON>>> And what is the best way for me to pass such from BBS/NNTP/etc to
 ON>>> you for SCAN?

 ON> Same going out, I could drop SCANTHIS.LST and simply drop in:
 ON> AREA    or    AREA,MSG#

 ON> To short-circuit scanning for timestamp or modcounter changes in JAM.

There is the "echomail.jam" that's read by fmail scan. Golded for instance 
creates it.

Scan always

          If set to "Yes", the messages base will always be
          completely scanned for outgoing messages. If set to
          "No", FMail relies on the files ECHOMAIL.BBS and
          NETMAIL.BBS for Hudson and/or ECHOMAIL.JAM for JAM areas
          to indicate new messages. If these files are found to be
          pointing to a message that does not qualify for export,
          a complete scan of the message base (or JAM base) will
          be performed.

(I hate to quote the docs, but there you go ;)).

Bye, Wilfred.

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