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  • Running FMail/lnx - Phase 5

    From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Wilfred van Velzen on Tue Oct 24 17:26:49 2017
    Hi! Wilfred,

    FMail continues to perform exceedingly well here as the prime tosster its recent maintenanter its recent maintenance run (weekly on Sundays), I've noticed that it seems to consistently annoy this NNTP reader on each subsequent
    use which requires that every subscribed echo folders have to be 'repaired'.

    The maint script runs "ftools maint -D -P -R". Does FMail renumber JAM echoes even when not instructed to? If so, please, is there a way of stopping it?

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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    * Origin: Quinn's Rock - Now upstairs & whizzing on Xubuntu!! (3:640/1384)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464.112 to Paul Quinn on Tue Oct 24 11:30:00 2017
    Hi Paul,

    On 24 Oct 17 17:26, Paul Quinn wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
    about: "Running FMail/lnx - Phase 5":

    The maint script runs "ftools maint -D -P -R". Does FMail renumber
    JAM echoes even when not instructed to? If so, please, is there a way
    of stopping it?

    I did a quick scan of the jam maintenance code, and I don't think you can prevent it. I have to take a much "deeper" look at this code, which is rather complex, to maybe think of a way to make this optional...

    Wilfred.

    --- FMail-W32 2.0.1.4
    * Origin: point@work (2:280/464.112)
  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/384 to Wilfred Van Velzen on Tue Oct 24 20:01:00 2017
    Hi! Wilfred,

    On Tue, 24 Oct 17, you wrote to me:

    I did a quick scan of the jam maintenance code, and I
    don't think you can prevent it. I have to take a much
    "deeper" look at this code, which is rather complex, to
    maybe think of a way to make this optional...

    No problem... no hurry... no pressure. I'm exploring other methods: telnet; RDP; or, hpt. ;)

    Cheers,
    Paul.

    --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox
    * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)
  • From Richard Menedetter@2:310/31 to Paul Quinn on Tue Oct 24 13:47:02 2017
    Hi Paul!

    24 Oct 2017 17:26, from Paul Quinn -> Wilfred van Velzen:

    FMail continues to perform exceedingly well here as the prime tosser

    Sounds very good!!

    I hope that you get a solution for the renumbering ...

    CU, Ricsi

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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Richard Menedetter on Wed Oct 25 10:01:12 2017
    Hi! Richard,

    On 24 Oct 17 13:47, you wrote to me:

    FMail continues to perform exceedingly well here as the prime
    tosser
    Sounds very good!!

    Yes, it is very good. FMail is working wonderfully. It has only a few weak spots specifically with its netmail handling, due to its history being tied to the FrontDoor mailer, but that's fairly easy to work around.

    I hope that you get a solution for the renumbering ...

    I have an idea in mind to get around that, as I'm not happy with the NNTP server in any case. I initially tried a JamNNTPd build from a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
    installation I have. It produced errors. I made a new build in this Xubuntu (X'u) 14.04 LTS and it failed with different results.

    So I did a '360' and re-used the build I did for Puppy Linux 4.12 that I had been using in my VirtualBox (vBox) VM for over five years, and I've been using that in this X'u for the last 2-3 weeks. Going by the junk the server seems to
    throw into posts occasionally, that seems to not be the ideal option either.

    At this time I'm considering going back to the one NNTP solution that I really enjoyed for so long, by reactivating my old vBox. This time as a point config.
    :)

    Cheers,
    Paul.

    ... No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20110213
    * Origin: Quinn's Rock - Live from Paul's Xubuntu desktop! (3:640/1384)