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|    Message 591 of 1,458    |
|    mark lewis to Bill Gordon    |
|    Rescanning    |
|    03 Dec 12 19:56:50    |
       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 ;) ;) ;)              )\/(ark              ---         * Origin: (1:3634/12.42)    |
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