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   Wilfred van Velzen to Ozz Nixon   
   Re: Fmail (2018 Questions)   
   14 Feb 19 22:43:31   
   
   Hi Ozz,   
      
   On 2019-02-14 10:09:08, you wrote to me:   
      
    ON>>> * Only major wishlist I did not see (may be there) -- a drop file   
    ON>>> from FMail to me ECHOLIST with new posts via TOSS.   
      
    WV>> You mean something like what is in the toss log file but in a more   
    WV>> machine readable form?   
      
    ON> For example, d'Bridge tosser would let me know   
    ON> FTSC_PUBLIC   
    ON> FMAIL_HELP   
    ON> FN_SYSOP   
      
    ON> Which my BBS used to circumvent a full scan of 1000+ echos when someone   
    ON> would log in, that was on before the most recent toss - I limited their   
    ON> "NEW SCAN" to those 3 echos listed above. I have a small DB of   
   userID,array   
    ON> of areas - so it only searched the array of areas from JLR forward. *MUCH*   
    ON> faster for a user on my systems... especially when I start pulling in   
    ON> newsgroups and any other FTN(etwork) I can get coming in.   
      
   There's already this option in the config:   
      
   Tossed Areas List   
      
             Writes a list of echomail areas in which mail has been   
             tossed to the specified file.   
      
   I don't use it myself, but it seems just what you want.   
      
    ON>>> And what is the best way for me to pass such from BBS/NNTP/etc to   
    ON>>> you for SCAN?   
      
    ON> Same going out, I could drop SCANTHIS.LST and simply drop in:   
    ON> AREA    or    AREA,MSG#   
      
    ON> To short-circuit scanning for timestamp or modcounter changes in JAM.   
      
   There is the "echomail.jam" that's read by fmail scan. Golded for instance   
   creates it.   
      
   Scan always   
      
             If set to "Yes", the messages base will always be   
             completely scanned for outgoing messages. If set to   
             "No", FMail relies on the files ECHOMAIL.BBS and   
             NETMAIL.BBS for Hudson and/or ECHOMAIL.JAM for JAM areas   
             to indicate new messages. If these files are found to be   
             pointing to a message that does not qualify for export,   
             a complete scan of the message base (or JAM base) will   
             be performed.   
      
   (I hate to quote the docs, but there you go ;)).   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
   --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)   

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