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to: Rob Ireland
from: Paul Quinn
date: 2003-10-31 22:04:00
subject: FE loosing netmail

Hi! Rob,

In a message to All you wrote:

 RI>  I've got a real pickle of a problem here, that I just can't seem to
 RI> be able to be able to wrestle to the ground.
 RI> It seems that no matter what I do, FE keeps 'eating' my outbound
 RI> netmail.
 RI> ----------  Fri 31 Oct 03, FastEcho 1.46; SCAN
 RI> +  3:37:41  NetMail: 2, EchoMail: 0 +  3:37:41  Active 0:00:01 
 RI> (Extern 0:00:00)
 RI> ----------  Fri 31 Oct 03, FastEcho 1.46; PACK
 RI> +  3:37:56  NetMail: 0 +  3:37:56  Active 0:00:00 (Extern 
 RI> 0:00:00)

If the scan is working fine, then the problem may be with the 'primary'
netmail area (a *.Msg directory).  SCAN extracts copies from a secondary
netmail area and places them in the primary.  When the PACK operates it
should be extracting copies from the primary area and packs them up into
outbound bundles, according to your routing rules.  The primary netmail
area can be shared with your mailer, BTW, if it can use such.

 RI>   I located a patch for a netmail problem... I'm not sure if this is
 RI> the issue that that patch was specifically for, but it needs a 
 RI> program called BUPDATE, which I can't seem to find.

The patch is really only useful if your mailer does Binkley-style outbound,
and, is specifically aimed at fixing output from a PACK command when the -P
option is used.  I have a copy of the update doover here: BUPD124A.ZIP
(08-Apr-97); 18K small.

 RI> Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so, what was done to fix
 RI> it?

Nope.  FE's been running here since late '94.

 RI> Additionally, who's currently developing/supporting FE?

I thought Tobi was!

Cheers,
Paul.

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