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   Message 13,099 of 16,010   
   METALHEAD to Al   
   Re: mutil issues   
      
   
   MSGID: 1:229/426 027238EA   
   REPLY: 532.fido-mystic@1:153/757.2 244e92da   
   TZUTC: -0500   
   A> Does your log give any indication of what is happening when you are tossing   
   A> fido mail?   
      
   Here's a rundown of what I tried just now:   
      
   I posted a test message in "Fidonet: Asian Links"   
   I ran mutil (with import echomail=true and export echomail=true)   
   - mutil indicated that 1 echomail was exported   
   I ran fidopoll to poll my Fido hub   
   - fidopoll indicated that 1 message was sent and that a packet was received   
   I ran mutil again (same settings)   
   - mutil indicated 0 sent & 0 received   
      
   Then I reviewed fidopoll.log and found:   
   Receiving 00000001.MO0 (4,395 bytes)   
   Sending: 0000ffff.mo0 (938 bytes)   
   Session ended (1 sent, 1 rcvd, 0 skip)   
      
   Then I reviewed mutil.log and found:   
   (1st time I ran it right after posting in Fido: Asian Links -before polling)   
   Process: Importing EchoMail   
     Waiting for BUSY nodes   
   Results: 0 echo, 0 net, 0 dupes, 0 tossed in 0.03s   
   Process: Exporting EchoMail   
      Waiting for BUSY nodes   
      Scanning...   
      1 msgs from [Fidonet] Asian Links   
   Results: 1 echo, 0 net, 0 skipped in 0.21s   
   Shutdown Normal   
      
   ----- That "Waiting for BUSY nodes" part is suspicious! -----   
      
   Further into the log shows what happened when I ran mutil AFTER polling:   
   Process: Importing EchoMail   
      Waiting for BUSY nodes   
      Extracting 00000001.MO0   
      Importing 28085851.PKT (1:275/100 to 1:275/99)   
      
   Then I logged on to my hub's BBS (Shenk's Express) and found that my test    
   message that I posted in Fido: Asian Links did not post to the network.   
      
   Let me know what you make of this. I suspect there's something up with    
   "Waiting for BUSY nodes."   
      
   I was having a similar issue with Scinet about a week ago, and Jay recommended   
   I run ./mis poll to see if anything would go out, and that seemed to solve the   
   problem with Scinet. But I tried to do it here to solve the Fidonet issue but    
   no luck.   
      
   Thanks Al and thanks Jay!   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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