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  • Getting AreaFix to push mail when polling

    From Al@21:4/106.1 to nick on Tue Mar 2 17:56:26 2021
    Re: Getting AreaFix to push mail when polling
    By: nick to All on Tue Mar 02 2021 07:51 am

    I've sent AreaFix several message including %RESCAN, %HELP%, etc but only new messages come in. I want binkit to download all messages from the past 90 days. Is this possible? I know it requires an AreaFix message beforehand so the Hub knows to push that mail to my binkit call out. Any ideas?

    Yes, this can be done. Send those messages as a netmail to you hub and be sure to include the password on the subject line.

    Areafix will reply to you with the results of your rescan so if you don't get a reply perhaps that netmail never got to your hub.

    Check the logs and see what happens when those messages arrive. If you recieved those messages already they may be caught as dupes. If that is happening you can delete your dupe database, data/echodupes.dat.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to nick on Tue Mar 2 18:00:12 2021
    Re: Getting AreaFix to push mail when polling
    By: Al to nick on Tue Mar 02 2021 09:56 am

    Check the logs and see what happens when those messages arrive. If you recieved those messages already they may be caught as dupes. If that is happening you can delete your dupe database, data/echodupes.dat.

    Looks like you are running Synchronet? If so each base has it's own dupe base in [INTERNAL-CODE].hash.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to nick on Tue Mar 2 23:31:20 2021
    On 02 Mar 2021, 02:01p, nick said the following...

    Thanks for the reply. I did this, along with other commands in the same message such as %QUERY and %HELP just to make sure the hub is receiving
    my mail and I am receiving theirs. I get a reply for help, query but
    none for rescan. It's weird and I'm waiting for a reply but thought I'd ask in case any of you knew....

    Ok, the help is a little be confusing for the rescan command. I think it's been changed in newer versions of Husky, but I haven't updated yet...

    Try sending a netmail message with:

    %rescan *

    If you just send the %rescan, it assumes that you will be connecting to message echos after that command, and it will rescan those.

    So, to rescan the last 90 days, you would send:

    %rescan * 90 days

    Or, if you want the last 1000 messages in each echo:

    %rescan * 1000

    I hope that makes sense... :)


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