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echo: fmail_help
to: Ozz Nixon
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2019-02-14 22:56:12
subject: Re: Fmail (2018 Questions)

Hi Ozz,

On 2019-02-14 10:14:50, you wrote to me:

 WV>> Isn't that what the .jlr files in the JAM message base are for? They
 WV>> contain the last read "pointers" for each user, and
they are updated
 WV>> everytime fmail updates the jam area files, as far as I remember...?

 ON> Yes, but hitting 1000+ JLR files all over a drive *is slow*

And would probably less then a second on a modern ssd drive. ;)

 ON> versus, SCANTHIS.LST from me to you - you only hit 5 to 10 echos that
 ON> have been active since I signaled FMAIL SCAN.

And the options I mentioned in my previous message will do for this?

 ON> And vise versa, FMAIL and Rhenium run in a seperate thread/window from
 ON> the BBS which is actually running right now behind GameSrv.exe in
 ON> dynamic windows. * This will *SERIOUSLY* change when I migrate this to
 ON> my Linux rack. However, in either case, I do not "SCAN" after every
 ON> caller, and I do not "TOSS" after every mailer session.

I think you could. I don't run a bbs, so scan after a caller isn't an issue
on my system. But I do run a toss after each mailer session. It's so fast,
I don't have to give it another thought:

wilnux5:/home/fido/log # grep 'Toss Active' fmail.log | tail
21:10:08.860  Toss Active: 0.025 sec.
21:12:17.939  Toss Active: 0.080 sec.
21:13:15.650  Toss Active: 0.021 sec.
21:14:39.782  Toss Active: 0.0051 sec.
21:38:05.132  Toss Active: 0.030 sec.
21:39:15.685  Toss Active: 0.030 sec.
21:40:21.420  Toss Active: 0.044 sec.
21:42:20.530  Toss Active: 0.0074 sec.
21:59:15.780  Toss Active: 0.041 sec.
22:03:12.721  Toss Active: 0.036 sec.

 ON> I do this, as I get 100's of port scans a minute that would normally
 ON> trigger a "FMAIL TOSS" and really eat CPU...

I get hardly any port scans on the binkp port. And binkd only triggers a
toss if there was a true mailer session, and pkt's received...

 WV>> Currently I and the single other test node, only use FMail with Binkly
 WV>> Style Outbound (BSO), and Golded as editor. And no bbs. So it could
 WV>> use some testing in other environments...

 ON> If you do not mind *crazy* ideas to steamline my systems across the US - I
 ON> will gladly share ideas.

Ideas are ok, but I've very little time for working on fmail. Work, living, etc... ;)


Bye, Wilfred.

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