Hi! Wilfred,

FMail/lnx is wonderful, Wilfred.  Thank you for letting me try it out.

What was what I call 'Phase 1' testing ceased for me at about midday on
Saturday.  Test packets originated from -this- node as received from my
current peer linked Fidonet systems.  They were shoved otherwise-untouched
to my test system via binkD, and ingested by FMail.

With FMail, I have enjoyed seeing _full_ inter-zone SEENBY & PATH data
in messages.  These items form the singular function that's caused me to
try FMail.

FMail was under rigorous supervision for about three weeks of 24/7
operation.  I think there's about three Mb of logfiles with nary a glitch
reported, IIRC.

It did turn up that weirdness with message sorting that I was later to find
was subject to what Uncle Google & Wikipedia tells me is the 'Observer
effect'.  After I reworked the data originating from FastEcho, whose packet
size limits dated from the POTS days, all was well.

Interestingly, a couple of AreaMgr requests were replied to but the
responses were not sent.  I guess that could be the case with potential
PING responses as well.  Is that normal?  (On my main node [~/384] I would
have a BATch file check for any *.Msg files in the netmail path, since the
primary netmail area is usually empty, and would attempt a PACK if any such
mails existed.)  How do you recommend they be completed by FMail if it is
the only configured netmail area?

The 'Phase 2' test occurred later on Saturday and lasted for about 10
seconds or less.  :)  It's premise was simply continuing function with a
pre-existing messagebase, from that morning's backup from this node.  I did
allow the *.Msg, HMB areas & dupe ID database to remain as they were. 
FMail cruised through the test without even a grunt.

On Sunday I was surprised and pleased by the 'badmail' capability to detect
old mails... it found one!  (It was a phurphy from region 18 IIRC, and was
a re-badged old mail from NZ.)  Did yours?  ;-)

Now 'Phase 3'.  I'm thinking of doing some sort of export SCANning of
outbound mails.  I think I need something further from you?  Do you have
something of a 32-bit flavour, please?  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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