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   Message 7,199 of 8,958   
   Wilfred van Velzen to Oli   
   Re: skipping files (bug?)   
   02 Jan 21 12:30:18   
   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
   RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 5ff05adc   
   REPLY: 2:280/464.47 5ff04dbc   
   Hi Oli,   
      
   On 2021-01-02 11:41:08, you wrote to All:   
      
    Ol> How does file skipping work in Binkd? I'm on a bad/slow mobile   
    Ol> connection   
    Ol> at the moment and only want to receive mails, no nodelist updates. So I   
   put   
      
    Ol> skip all !0 DAILYUTF.*   
      
    Ol> in binkd.cfg, but the file doesn't seem to get deleted on the other side:   
      
    Ol> - 11:28 [1138] VER binkd/1.1a-111/Linux binkp/1.1   
    Ol> - 11:29 [1138] TRF 0 55671   
    Ol> + 11:29 [1138] Remote has 0b of mail and 55671b of files for us   
    Ol> ? 11:29 [1138] skipping DAILYUTF.Z02 (destructive, 55671 byte(s), mask   
    Ol> DAILYUTF.*)   
      
    Ol> next poll it's still the same...   
      
    Ol> - 11:31 [1146] VER binkd/1.1a-111/Linux binkp/1.1   
    Ol> - 11:31 [1146] TRF 0 55671   
    Ol> + 11:31 [1146] Remote has 0b of mail and 55671b of files for us   
    Ol> ? 11:31 [1146] skipping DAILYUTF.Z02 (destructive, 55671 byte(s), mask   
    Ol> DAILYUTF.*)   
      
    Ol> until some mail is exchanged:   
      
    Ol> - 11:37 [1159] TRF 0 55671   
    Ol> + 11:37 [1159] Remote has 0b of mail and 55671b of files for us   
    Ol> + 11:37 [1159] sending /ftn/packets/f04ce901.pkt as f04ce901.pkt (1064)   
    Ol>   11:37 [1159] bzip2 mode is on for f04ce901.pkt   
    Ol> ? 11:37 [1159] skipping DAILYUTF.Z02 (destructive, 55671 byte(s), mask   
    Ol> DAILYUTF.*) 11:37 [1159] Compressed 1064 bytes to 770 for f04ce901.pkt,   
    Ol> ratio 72.4%   
      
   Strange, on this end they look the same regarding the DAILYUTF file. This is   
   what a grep on DAILYUTF.Z02 shows:   
      
   + 02 Jan 08:50:06 [31959] sending /home/fido/fileareas/dailyutf/DAILYUTF.Z02   
   as DAILYUTF.Z02 (55671)   
     02 Jan 08:50:06 [31959] bzip2 mode is on for DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 08:50:14 [31959] remote already has DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 11:26:54 [6706] Status is 'DAILYUTF.Z02 55671 1609542303'   
   + 02 Jan 11:26:54 [6706] sending DAILYUTF.Z02 as DAILYUTF.Z02 (55671)   
     02 Jan 11:26:54 [6706] bzip2 mode is on for DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 11:27:01 [6706] remote already has DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 11:28:29 [6721] Status is 'DAILYUTF.Z02 55671 1609542303'   
   + 02 Jan 11:28:29 [6721] sending DAILYUTF.Z02 as DAILYUTF.Z02 (55671)   
     02 Jan 11:28:29 [6721] bzip2 mode is on for DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 11:28:30 [6721] remote already has DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 11:29:00 [6726] Status is 'DAILYUTF.Z02 55671 1609542303'   
   + 02 Jan 11:29:00 [6726] sending DAILYUTF.Z02 as DAILYUTF.Z02 (55671)   
     02 Jan 11:29:00 [6726] bzip2 mode is on for DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 11:29:01 [6726] remote already has DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 11:31:01 [6776] Status is 'DAILYUTF.Z02 55671 1609542303'   
   + 02 Jan 11:31:01 [6776] sending DAILYUTF.Z02 as DAILYUTF.Z02 (55671)   
     02 Jan 11:31:01 [6776] bzip2 mode is on for DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 11:31:01 [6776] remote already has DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 11:37:33 [7087] Status is 'DAILYUTF.Z02 55671 1609542303'   
   + 02 Jan 11:37:33 [7087] sending DAILYUTF.Z02 as DAILYUTF.Z02 (55671)   
     02 Jan 11:37:33 [7087] bzip2 mode is on for DAILYUTF.Z02   
   + 02 Jan 11:37:34 [7087] remote already has DAILYUTF.Z02   
      
    Ol> next poll:   
      
    Ol> - 11:37 [1172] TRF 0 0   
    Ol> + 11:37 [1172] Remote has 0b of mail and 0b of files for us   
      
    Ol> Is this a bug?   
      
   Maybe binkd gives up after a couple of retries? It seems to remember the   
   transmit status of the file between sessions...   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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