Hey DM,

So I noticed it being quiet in Dovenet for a few days, so I checked my logs and discovered mail was not flowing to me.

I noticed this in the log:
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET No new messages.
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET Call-out: VERT
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qwk already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw0 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw1 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw2 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw3 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw4 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw5 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw6 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw7 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw8 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET /opt/sbbs/data/VERT.qw9 already exists
Jan 22 09:23:56 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET Call-out to: VERT returned 1

And sure enough...

deon@d-11-1:/srv/docker/sbbs/data$ ls -al VERT.qw?
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 28  2022 VERT.qw0
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 07:13 VERT.qw1
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 09:26 VERT.qw2
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 17 16:41 VERT.qw3
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 05:53 VERT.qw4
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 09:03 VERT.qw5
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 11:16 VERT.qw6
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 13:30 VERT.qw7
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 19:43 VERT.qw8
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 21:56 VERT.qw9
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr  1  2022 VERT.qwk

After I deleted those, I got mail again :)

So that I understand, there can only be 10 qwk files in flight? And once all 10 are used, no more mail flows until there is a spare slot?

Not sure why I had zero sized files laying around - perhaps it would be good to detect those and delete them automatigically?

I went through my Jan 18 log to see if I could see why VERT.qw4 was left as a zero size file, and there was no errors that I could see.

Jan 18 04:53:39 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET Downloading QWK Packet: VERT.qwk
Jan 18 04:53:52 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET Downloaded VERT.qw4 (2.0KB) successfully
...
Jan 18 04:53:58 d-11-1 synchronet: evnt QNET Finished Importing QWK Network Packet from VERT: (2 msgs) in 1 seconds (2 msgs/sec), 0 errors
, 0 dupes

(The 1hr difference in the log and the file timestamp will be because of summer time).

Any other reason why they were left around?


...лоеп

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