Subj : Re: Script to process fidomail
To : Alan Ianson
From : Sean Rima
Date : Fri Aug 26 2022 05:38 pm
-=> Alan Ianson wrote to Sean Rima <=-
>> Has anyone got a script that they are using to process fidonet mail as
>> it is
>> received. I am struggling with a second net, who processes file echos
>> from
>> Fidonet. so my BBBS just ignores the second file.
AI>
AI> Are you having an issue with the APOD area? I sometimes get an issue
AI> like that with the epod area myself. I have been considering renaming
AI> the files hatched in fsxNet with a different filename. If I know others
AI> had issues I would do that for the apod hatches.
AI>
Yeah that's the issue I am hitting. I have put it onto a every 1 minute process to get around it, so far so good. It just happens that sometimes, that both send me the same file almost at the same time
>> I was running bbbs bogus W/B and bbbs btick from a bash script. I feel
>> doing
>> i every minute is a waste of resources
AI>
AI> I run my mailin.sh script every three minites and it seems to work well
AI> for me as long as there are no dupelicate filenames.
AI>
AI> There was another way with modem calls to have BBBS exit and do mail and
AI> files but I don't think there is a way from ./bbbsd, at least not that I
AI> know of.
AI>
I have been using a basic script. Maybe I will push the boundary of my shell scripting :)
