Hello All!

I'm experiencing a problem with trying to send netmail in FastEcho2. I have the
netmail area setup as *.msg. When I enter a netmail, I see it in the designated
netmail folder. I execute Fastecho2 scan and a continuous list of netmails begin scrolling across the screen. I have let it run over 20,000 before I aborted. It seems it would go on forever. When I look again in the netmail directory, it now shows 1.msg and 3000.msg. When I open the area in Timed/2, it
shows the one netmail I wrote, but shows a high message area count of 3000. I cannot find any zero byte netmail files in the outbound, or the netmail area.

Has anyone experienced and solved a similar problem with netmail in FE2?

Thank you.

Regards,

Joe
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15 Oct 17 07:41:30, you wrote to All:

I'm experiencing a problem with trying to send netmail in FastEcho2. I

have

the netmail area setup as *.msg. When I enter a netmail, I see it in the designated netmail folder. I execute Fastecho2 scan and a continuous list

Did you run "fastech2.exe pack" also?

Try "fastech2.exe pack ?" for help.

'Tommi

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Tommi Koivula wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:

15 Oct 17 07:41:30, you wrote to All:

I'm experiencing a problem with trying to send netmail in
FastEcho2. I have
the netmail area setup as *.msg. When I enter a netmail, I see it in the designated netmail folder. I execute Fastecho2 scan and a
continuous list

Did you run "fastech2.exe pack" also?

Yes. But I really wouldn't want to pack the thousands of non-existent netmails that scrolled on the screen when I executed the scan.

Regards,

Joe
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Hi Joe.

15 Oct 17 11:15:32, you wrote to me:

Tommi Koivula wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:

15 Oct 17 07:41:30, you wrote to All:

I'm experiencing a problem with trying to send netmail in
FastEcho2. I have
the netmail area setup as *.msg. When I enter a netmail, I see it in the
designated netmail folder. I execute Fastecho2 scan and a
continuous list

Did you run "fastech2.exe pack" also?

Yes. But I really wouldn't want to pack the thousands of non-existent netmails that scrolled on the screen when I executed the scan.

How could you pack something non-existent? :D

"fastech2.exe scan" is not packing/routing netmail. It just exports netmails from the msgbase to the main netmail area.

Then how about renumbering your .msg base? "feutil2.exe pack -renumber -msg".

And how is your route file?

'Tommi

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Tommi Koivula wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:

Hi Joe.

15 Oct 17 11:15:32, you wrote to me:

Tommi Koivula wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:

15 Oct 17 07:41:30, you wrote to All:

I'm experiencing a problem with trying to send netmail in
FastEcho2. I have
the netmail area setup as *.msg. When I enter a netmail, I see
it in the
designated netmail folder. I execute Fastecho2 scan and a
continuous list

Did you run "fastech2.exe pack" also?

Yes. But I really wouldn't want to pack the thousands of non-existent netmails that scrolled on the screen when I executed the scan.

How could you pack something non-existent? :D

No idea. Not sure why they are there.

"fastech2.exe scan" is not packing/routing netmail. It just exports netmails from the msgbase to the main netmail area.

I see.

Then how about renumbering your .msg base? "feutil2.exe pack
-renumber -msg".

I'll give that a try.

And how is your route file?

Will take a look.

Thanks.

Regards,

Joe
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On 2017 Oct 15 11:15:32, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:

Did you run "fastech2.exe pack" also?

Yes. But I really wouldn't want to pack the thousands of non-existent netmails that scrolled on the screen when I executed the scan.

do you have your mailer's netmail area and this netmail area set to the same path? my point being that maybe FE is trying to move the netmail from the BBS netmail area (separate config) to the mailer's (central/general) netmail area... since both are the same, it is copying it to the same area before removing the old one as sent...

what mailer have you told FE you are using??

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong...
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mark lewis wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:

Hi Mark,

On 2017 Oct 15 11:15:32, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:

Did you run "fastech2.exe pack" also?

Yes. But I really wouldn't want to pack the thousands of non-existent netmails that scrolled on the screen when I executed the scan.

do you have your mailer's netmail area and this netmail area set to
the same path? my point being that maybe FE is trying to move the
netmail from the BBS netmail area (separate config) to the mailer's (central/general) netmail area... since both are the same, it is
copying it to the same area before removing the old one as sent...

Yes. I have checked to make sure the netmail paths match in Internet Rex (mailer), FE and Max BBS.

what mailer have you told FE you are using??

I have Rex set to Binkley as well as FE.

Thanks for the reply.


Regards,

Joe
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On 2017 Oct 15 18:28:08, you wrote to me:

do you have your mailer's netmail area and this netmail area set to
the same path? my point being that maybe FE is trying to move the
netmail from the BBS netmail area (separate config) to the mailer's
(central/general) netmail area... since both are the same, it is
copying it to the same area before removing the old one as sent...

Yes. I have checked to make sure the netmail paths match in Internet
Rex (mailer), FE and Max BBS.

this really does sound like looping netmail areas... what are the definitions of those netmail areas you have defined... check /all/ software and let's see if we can match them up...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong...
... Actually, REAL programmers use front panel toggle switches!
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Joe Bruchis wrote to All <=-

I'm experiencing a problem with trying to send netmail in FastEcho2. I have the netmail area setup as *.msg. When I enter a netmail, I
see it in the designated netmail folder. I execute
Fastecho2 scan and a continuous list of netmails begin
scrolling across the screen. I have let it run over 20,000
before I aborted. It seems it would go on forever. When I
look again in the netmail directory, it now shows 1.msg and
3000.msg. When I open the area in Timed/2, it shows the one
netmail I wrote, but shows a high message area count of
3000. I cannot find any zero byte netmail files in the
outbound, or the netmail area.

Has anyone experienced and solved a similar problem with netmail in
FE2?

I have in the past, but what I did to fix the problem escapes me at the moment. Then again, I do my netmails from within FrontDoor/2 nowadays.

... The arctic is not hostile to people, only indifferent to them.
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Hello Joe!

15 Oct 17 15:14, you wrote to me:

Did you run "fastech2.exe pack" also?

Yes. But I really wouldn't want to pack the thousands of
non-existent netmails that scrolled on the screen when I executed
the scan.

How could you pack something non-existent? :D

No idea. Not sure why they are there.

"fastech2.exe scan" is not packing/routing netmail. It just
exports netmails from the msgbase to the main netmail area.

I see.

And if you have netmails TO YOUR system in your .msg area, you should import them into the secondary netmail base(s). "feutil2.exe import".

The ideal situation is that there are no netmails in your .msg area at all. :)

'Tommi

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Tommi Koivula wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:

Hello Joe!

15 Oct 17 15:14, you wrote to me:

Did you run "fastech2.exe pack" also?

Yes. But I really wouldn't want to pack the thousands of
non-existent netmails that scrolled on the screen when I executed
the scan.

How could you pack something non-existent? :D

No idea. Not sure why they are there.

"fastech2.exe scan" is not packing/routing netmail. It just
exports netmails from the msgbase to the main netmail area.

I see.

And if you have netmails TO YOUR system in your .msg area, you
should import them into the secondary netmail base(s). "feutil2.exe import".

The ideal situation is that there are no netmails in your .msg area
at all. :)

Tomi, I found the problem. I assumed the command "fastech2 pack" packed the netmail. When I queried the command switches with "fastech2 pack ?" I found I needed to add "-P" to pack netmail or "fastech2 pack -P". It works now.

Thanks for taking the time to try to help. (-:


Regards,

Joe
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On 10/16/17 7:16 AM, Joe Bruchis wrote:

Tomi, I found the problem. I assumed the command "fastech2 pack"
packed the netmail. When I queried the command switches with
"fastech2 pack ?" I found I needed to add "-P" to pack netmail or "fastech2 pack -P". It works now.

Cool!

Thanks for taking the time to try to help. (-:

No problem!

'Tommi

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Robert Wolfe wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:

Joe Bruchis wrote to All <=-

Has anyone experienced and solved a similar problem with netmail in
FE2?

I have in the past, but what I did to fix the problem escapes me at
the moment. Then again, I do my netmails from within FrontDoor/2 nowadays.

Thanks!


Regards,

Joe
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mark lewis wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:

On 2017 Oct 15 18:28:08, you wrote to me:

Yes. I have checked to make sure the netmail paths match in Internet
Rex (mailer), FE and Max BBS.

this really does sound like looping netmail areas... what are the definitions of those netmail areas you have defined... check /all/ software and let's see if we can match them up...

All solved.. thanks for your help!

Regards,

Joe
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