Hello mark!

Monday October 06 2014 15:46, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 ml> but that doesn't fix the inherent blackhole of BSO :/ at least FD, IM and
 ml> other traditional mailers will tell you when mail is stuck and
 ml> undeliverable...

 I have come across this remark before.
 There is no reason why this cannot be done on a BSO system.
 If you do not run binkd in deamon mode there is the option printq that will
 produce output after a rescan.

 But there is another way as well, it is used in the ifmail package. That
 package has a utility that scans the outboud directories. Looks for .flx
 files and the files referenced. it reports the flavour of the flo file,
 the total size of the files referenced in the flo file and the ftn address
 as reconstructed from the filename of the flo file.
 The age of the waiting mail is derived from the creation date of the flo file.

 There is no magic and can be made by anybody with some experience in building
 fidonet utillities.

 I run ifstat every 30 seconds using "watch" and I pass the output through a
 script that does some editing, to make it more apealing to me.

 The above is run in a separate terminal on my workstation, so I can watch it
 all  day.

 The output of ifstat is:

flavor   size   age         address
.N..   549862   5 days      2:280/1041@fidonet
.N..    38950   5 hours     2:280/1208@fidonet
..H.     3020   7 minutes   2:280/5268@fidonet
.N..    18956   7 minutes   2:280/5003.4@fidonet

 There is one error in the report, the reported size is twice the real size
 of the waiting mail. I could look for this bug, but I don't care.

 I my case it now looks like this:

        #------------------------ Mail Queue ------------------------#
        Flavor   Size   Age             Address         Name
        .N..   549862   5 days          2:280/1041      Arnoud Aquina
        .N..    38950   5 hours         2:280/1208      Henri Derksen
        ..H.     3020   7 minutes       2:280/5268      John Goedkoop
        .N..    18956   7 minutes       2:280/5003.4    Kees van Eeten

 Maybe this inspires Michiel or someone.

 I present other satistics with the same script on tthe screen as well, but
 that is not relevant to this discussion.

Kees

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