Subj : Re: mutil issues
To   : Al
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Mon Dec 28 2020 10:49 am

A> Does your log give any indication of what is happening when you are tossing
A> fido mail?

Here's a rundown of what I tried just now:

I posted a test message in "Fidonet: Asian Links"
I ran mutil (with import echomail=true and export echomail=true)
- mutil indicated that 1 echomail was exported
I ran fidopoll to poll my Fido hub
- fidopoll indicated that 1 message was sent and that a packet was received
I ran mutil again (same settings)
- mutil indicated 0 sent & 0 received

Then I reviewed fidopoll.log and found:
Receiving 00000001.MO0 (4,395 bytes)
Sending: 0000ffff.mo0 (938 bytes)
Session ended (1 sent, 1 rcvd, 0 skip)

Then I reviewed mutil.log and found:
(1st time I ran it right after posting in Fido: Asian Links -before polling)
Process: Importing EchoMail
  Waiting for BUSY nodes
Results: 0 echo, 0 net, 0 dupes, 0 tossed in 0.03s
Process: Exporting EchoMail
   Waiting for BUSY nodes
   Scanning...
   1 msgs from [Fidonet] Asian Links
Results: 1 echo, 0 net, 0 skipped in 0.21s
Shutdown Normal

----- That "Waiting for BUSY nodes" part is suspicious! -----

Further into the log shows what happened when I ran mutil AFTER polling:
Process: Importing EchoMail
   Waiting for BUSY nodes
   Extracting 00000001.MO0
   Importing 28085851.PKT (1:275/100 to 1:275/99)

Then I logged on to my hub's BBS (Shenk's Express) and found that my test 
message that I posted in Fido: Asian Links did not post to the network.

Let me know what you make of this. I suspect there's something up with 
"Waiting for BUSY nodes."

I was having a similar issue with Scinet about a week ago, and Jay recommended
I run ./mis poll to see if anything would go out, and that seemed to solve the
problem with Scinet. But I tried to do it here to solve the Fidonet issue but 
no luck.

Thanks Al and thanks Jay!

--- Renegade vY2Ka2
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