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echo: mystic
to: Jay Harris
from: Paul Hayton
date: 2021-09-15 14:53:00
subject: Re: Skip Poll?

On 13 Sep 2021 at 02:54p, Jay Harris pondered and said...
 
 JH> I have a couple of nodes setup that I only need to send a file to every
 JH> now & then, along with a point who polls me to pickup mail.
 JH> Would it be possible to add a "Poll: YES|NO" option to the node's binkp 
 JH> settings that would skip it from being included in "./mis poll forced"?
 JH> I mean, it doesn't hurt anything that I poll them once an hour (in the
 JH> case of the point I just get "No BINKP hostname defined for 1:2/3.4"
 JH> even though the node is set to Export Type: Hold).  But it would be more
 JH> efficient if it were possible to exclude nodes I know I'll never receive
 JH> anything from.

You could perhaps just set up a different event in Mystic to poll the nodes
you want in the shell line vs asking Mystic to poll all regardless of if
there is mail etc. to exchange with them or not.

I tend to do this so have an event for specific nodes

./mis poll 3:770/1|./mis poll x:xxx/x  etc.. on the shell line

You can also run ./mis poll send so that when you export something out Mystic
is only going to poll nodes that it has mail for to deliver (so long as the
echomail node is not set to HOLD, in which case it would not poll it)

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