Subj : Truncated packets, etc.
To   : Digital Man
From : Joe Delahaye
Date : Thu May 12 2016 13:54:00

  Re: Truncated packets, etc.
  By: Digital Man to Joe Delahaye on Thu May 12 2016 00:37:00

 >> I now truncate (I think I have the right terminology) all of my
 >> outgoing mail.  I am ending up with hundreds of 0 byte files in my
 >> outbound.  I thought they were supposed to disappear after 24 hours? 
 >> Am I missing something here?

 DM> That's true of bundle files, but not packets. Can you give an example of
 DM> the 0-byte filenames (and the corresponding date/time stamps)?

 DM> In either case, we either have a bug to fix a feature to implement, so let
 DM> me know.


Since I go thru the directory once in a while and remove, I thinks these are
the earliest examples.  

05/06/2016  00:01                 0 0000005f.FR0
05/06/2016  00:02                 0 0000005f.FR1
05/06/2016  00:07                 0 0000005f.FR2
05/06/2016  00:12                 0 0000005f.FR3
05/06/2016  01:03                 0 0000005f.FR4

I am also getting stuff like this though.  

04/01/2016  09:23            14,166 01092348.pkt **
04/01/2016  09:28               963 01092849.pkt
04/01/2016  09:43               929 01094350.pkt
04/01/2016  09:43               929 01094351.pkt
04/01/2016  09:48               534 01094851.pkt
04/01/2016  09:48               534 01094852.pkt
04/01/2016  09:58             1,391 01095853.pkt
04/01/2016  09:58             1,391 01095854.pkt

These normally get added to  a bundle and deleted I would think.

**  I checked this pkt, and it was created here for one of my downlinks, who
get archived mail, thus a bundle.  That would have been an #########.fr#

---
 þ Synchronet þ The Lion's Den BBS

.