On 07/26/16, mark lewis said the following...
 ml> have you turned off your mailer and tried your experiment again so that
 ml> you can see if there are any flo files (aka ?lo) in your outbound
 ml> directories?? you have to turn your mailer off to be able to get to them
 ml> before it sends the files and deletes the ?lo files... that's the only
 ml> way to see what the tosser is placing in them...
 ml> 

I did. No luck. Although I did find a .flo file from before I made the change
to maxservers and maxclients.

catch22bbs:/home/imp # find . -name "*.flo"
./hpt/outbound/944EFE00.flo

And the log file entry..

+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] outgoing session with bbs.pharcyde.org:24554
[24.209.142.55]
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] OPT CRAM-MD5-261c499cf18e974ede70b2fab7737cee
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] Remote requests MD mode
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] SYS The Pharcyde
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] ZYZ Nicholas Boel
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] LOC Pewaukee, WI USA
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] TIME Sun, 24 Jul 2016 07:16:35 -0500
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] VER binkd/1.1a-94/Linux binkp/1.1
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] addr: 1:154/10{at}fidonet
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] addr: 1:154/0{at}fidonet
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] addr: 46:1/100{at}agoranet
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] addr: 46:1/0{at}agoranet
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] addr: 169:1/108{at}battlnet (n/a or busy)
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] addr: 723:1/1{at}dovenet (n/a or busy)
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] addr: 911:1262/1{at}zeronet
  24 Jul 05:15:12 [18941] trying dreamland.darktech.org [162.205.74.180]...
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] TRF 0 0
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] Remote has 0b of mail and 0b of files for us
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] OPT EXTCMD NR ND NDA CRYPT GZ BZ2
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] Remote supports EXTCMD mode
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] Remote requests NR mode
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] Remote requests ND mode
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] Remote supports asymmetric ND mode
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] Remote requests CRYPT mode
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] Remote supports GZ mode
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] Remote supports BZ2 mode
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] pwd protected session (MD5)
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] we are in ND mode
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] we are in NR mode
- 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] session in CRYPT mode
? 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] start_file_transfer:
/home/imp/hpt/outbound.02e\944efd00.su0: No such file or directory
? 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] start_file_transfer:
/home/imp/hpt/outbound\944efe00.su0: No such file or directory
+ 24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] done (to 1:154/10{at}fidonet, OK, S/R: 0/0 (0/0 bytes))
  24 Jul 05:15:12 [18942] session closed, quitting...


Not sure why 944efd00.su0 is duplicated for both outgoing directories.

Thanks,
Joseph

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