home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

<< oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

 Message 161 
 mark lewis to Jeff Earle 
 Radius Does Not Send files until Netmail 
 29 Apr 13 09:41:39 
 
 JE> They are all listed in the Outbound Tab and sit until the 1st
 JE> scheduled poll of that day (Midnight), it wont send them on the
 JE> regular hourly polls after that. I did notice that all net messages
 JE> for these files are #'d 2.msg, 3.msg, 4.msg, etc, which is strange
 JE> as 1.msg is never there. That is until a netmail message is created
 JE> from the BBS. It becomes 1.msg and then everything works as it
 JE> should, polls all systems and delivers the files and messages.

what tool are you using that creates 1.MSG when a higher numbered MSG exists?
the next message created should be at the end of the line, not at the
beginning... UNLESS (read on)...

 JE> I can't figure this out, why message 1.msg is never created for the
 JE> door files. Any help would be appreciated.

what is the content of that 1.MSG file? is it actually a message or is it the
highwater mark instead? traditionally speaking, 1.MSG is not a message but a
holder for the highest/last processed MSG file counter... it is known as the
highwater mark... some software chose to use other files for this purpose to
avoid confusion but then you run into problems similar to this...

then comes the question of are those MSG files removed after they have been
processed or are they simply marked as having been sent? what is removing the
1.MSG file? it should never be removed if it is the highwater mark... for one
thing, it tells the next MSG number to be used if there are no MSGs in the
directory...

what specific door games are these you are having problems with?

)\/(ark

--- 
 * Origin:  (1:3634/12.42)

<< oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca