Subj : Re: Downlink packets status.
To : Mark Lewis
From : Nick Andre
Date : Tue Jun 07 2016 06:20 pm
On 06 Jun 16 19:07:18, Mark Lewis said the following to Mark Hofmann:
ML> MH> I have my D'Bridge hub feeding a few nodes echomail and I have a feeli
ML> MH> they are no longer around. Just investigating options for "housekeepi
ML>
ML> you can't just look in the outbound and see the dates of the oldest PKTs
ML> and/or bundles?
Of course he can, anyone can do that, but the problem comes in the complexity
of the Queue directory structure. There are seperate outbound directories for
BinkD as well as the singular directory for "normal" Queue bundles that have
yet to be either moved to BinkD staging, or sent via dialup modem.
Its obvious that nobody knows what D-00106D.0BU contains, unless you can do
base 36 math in your head then you know that its 1:229/426. Thats why I added
the DBUTIL QNAME command. It translates a specified address into its directory
name.
I also added DBUTIL SHOWDEADECHOES xxx and REMOVEDEADECHOS to show and
nuke areas that D'Bridge has not tossed mail into for xxx amount of days.
But as I explained, I never did automate the purging of dead packets, it was
something I never had the time to properly finish.
The idea I had was to add the purging feature, but not purge outgoing Netmail
if possible... in the event that system did call in to pick up all that
mail, the Netmail bundle would remain... perhaps containing a nice polite
message that all of their mail was nuked.
