Subj : Rescanning
To   : Bill Gordon
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Dec 03 2012 07:56 pm


 BG> Is there any way to make IREX rescan constantly? I go through my
 BG> message bases at odd hours and every time I post, I have to
 BG> manually rescan to get the posts mailed  to my hub. Otherwise, the
 BG> hub only picks up and delivers on the hour. And when you are in a
 BG> discussion with someone or seeking advice on an issue, that's a
 BG> long time to wait.

understood... and i can't help with that other than to suggest that maybe there 
is a rescan semaphore file that you might touch to tell IREX to scan for new 
outbound mail...

but then i also know that you are a downlink of mine and if this is concerning 
fidonet message traffic, i feel that i should point out that you can send to my 
system any time you like... at least the mail is off your system and you can 
feel better that it is on its way... however, my system will sit on that mail 
with all the rest it receives and process it on schedule instead of as soon as 
it arrives... i had to do this for some other downlinks who have very iffy 
connections and who cannot always pull the dozens of PKTs or bundles that 
await... it was the best of both worlds to go to a set schedule for mail 
processing... especially since it is all too easy to process more than 36 times 
a day which then results in bundles of the same name as already created and 
possibly delivered... 

so the best time to deliver mail is any time before the scheduled processing 
but picking up mail is best polled for after that processing has taken place...

for more/updated details, netmail is just a click away ;) ;) ;)

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