23 Nov 16 09:50, you wrote to me:

 RM>>> Especially if there is a text config and a more intuitive rescan.
 RM>>> (telling me that I am already subscribed instead of doing a rescan
 RM>>> on that area)
 ml>> but that's not what rescans are for... rescans are for rescanning,
 ml>> subscribed or not...

 RM> That is also my working assumption. It seems it was not the one of the
 RM> original FMail author.

apparently so... that may have been one of the reasons why i left FMail
went to FastEcho years back... FE is/was very fast compared to other
tossers, too... a week after registering FE, i was invited to join the FE
Beta team which i did since i was also already on the RA and FD beta teams
;)

 ml>> the rescan will subscribe you if you are not already subscribed,
 ml>> though... generally speaking, of course...

 RM> I agree, and this is exactly as HPT handles this usecase.

it is also how fastecho handles it... if you want to rescan, you use the
%RESCAN option and possible modifiers along with the list of echo tags for
those to operate on...

eg:
  %RESCAN
  echoA
  echoB
  echoC

  %DAYS 30
  echoD
  echoE
  echoF

  %MSGS 1000
  echoG
  echoH
  echoI


in the above, all nines areas will be rescanned... the first set are
limited by default number of days back and last X messages... the second
set only rescans 30 days back... i don't think it is limited by the default
last X messages... the third set gets the last 1000 messages from each
those areas... i don't think it is limited by the default number of days
back...

FE also offers alternative rescan options...

  echoJ, R      <= rescan this area
  echoK, R=300  <= rescan last 300 messages in this area

apparently last X days is not supported by this format which is likely why
i always use the first example i gave above... the "S"ample
option seem interesting but i'm not sure if i want the response as an ascii
text file containing the messages... but i guess sample was to be used for
sampling an area before subscribing to it so you could see if you really
wanted to subscribe or not...

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