Re: hpt moving/changing netmail?
  By: mark lewis to Eric Renfro on Tue Jul 21 2015 05:22 pm

 ER>> Gimme a bone here.. I'm trying to do something a little out of the
 ER>> ordinary, maybe, but here goes.

 ER>> I use Synchronet for my BBS, and it has a wierd level of support for
 ER>> NetMail/FTN in general. sbbsecho lets be have it not delete
 ER>> imported/exported netmail, but on the case of doing so, it will
 ER>> repeatedly re-send the netmail endlessly while it remains in the
 ER>> /sbbs/netmail/*.msg format/path.

 ML> the mail should be marked as SENT the first time it is exported... you
 ML> should check to this attribute it being set...

Yep.. Come to find out, it wasn't being set as sent after being
packed, nor did sbbsecho care if it was sent or unsent. 

I've got Rob looking into this, though his first code revision caused more
problems, but did at least stop the endless cycle of re-sending the netmail.
After the code patch, it just sent it 3 times. Once to the destination (which
was a point-node, and the point node tosser thought it was addressed to the
boss node), then bounced back empty, then bounced back to the point node empty,
finally dying there. :)

I'm hoping to resolve this at an sbbsecho level since it seems to be where the
problem child is. Despite 20 years of nobody complaining about this, apparently
nobody has actually tried to use it /and/ keep their fido *.msg netmail for
external use. ;)

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