Subj : Re: POLL not pulling old messages
To   : Jonathan Martin
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Wed Jan 19 2022 10:36 pm

On 19 Jan 2022 at 10:38a, Jonathan Martin pondered and said...
 
 JM>  g0> I'll hold off a little to see if he sees this and is able to provide
 JM>  g0> some more detail as its his network.  If he doesn't see this I'll do
 JM>  g0> what I can to help you get sorted out.
 JM> 
 JM> I think I'm good now actually. I figured out how to get NetMail to work,
 JM> sent some rescan commands, and was able to get old messages. 
 JM> It's crazy how intuitive this stuff was in the 80s and 90s, and now I'm
 JM> like "duh what?" 

:)

If you are using the test AKA 21:1/999 then you will be (for want of a better term) competing with others also testing using the same AKA. This leads to some folks posting echomail into the fsxNet echos but then wondering why their replies are few/far between. It's usually because someone else testing with /999 has beaten them to mail packets with their replies..

So yep, grab a full node number and then at least all message and/or files traffic you want will be sitting at a HUB waiting for you to poll and
collect it. The other thing to be aware of is that some echomail areas in fsxNet are not linked to the test /999 AKA (this is by design) if you want those you should consider getting a full node number. :)

If you're following the older videos, sending a netmail to 'Areafix' at 21:1/100 using the password mentioned, is the way to go if you want to send a %rescan command to get older messages.

Hope that helps.

Best, Paul aka Avon

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